List 11
- Affinity- relationship by marriage
- Bilious- of or indicative of a peevish ill nature disposition
- Cognate- of the same nature
- Corollary- A proposition inferred Immediately from a proved proposition with little or no additional proof
- Cul-de-sac- a pouch
- Derring-do- a daring action
- Divination- The art or practice that seeks to foretell future events or discover hidden
- knowledge due to the interpretation of omens
- Elixir- A substance capable of prolonging life indefinitely
- Folderol- a useless accessory
- Gamut- an entire range or series
- Hoi polloi- the General populace
- Ineffable- incapable of being expressed in words
- Lucubration- to study by night
- Mnemonic- intended to assist memory
- Obloquy- abusive language
- Parameter- an independent variable used to express the coordinates of variable point and
- functions of them
- Pundit- a learned man
- Risible- provoking laughter
- Symptomatic- having the characteristics of a certain disease but arising of a different cause
- Volte-face- a reversal in policy
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