Monday, November 5, 2012

Vocabulary list 11



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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