#SUNDAY
RECLUSE
1. a
person who lives a solitary life and tends to avoid other people.
STEALTH
1. cautious and surreptitious
action or movement.
"the silence and stealth of a hungry cat"
2. (chiefly of aircraft) designed
in accordance with technology that makes detection by radar or sonar difficult.
"a stealth bomber"
OCCULT
1. supernatural, mystical, or
magical beliefs, practices, or phenomena.
"a secret society to study alchemy and the
occult"
2. cut off from view by
interposing something.
"a wooden screen designed to occult the
competitors"
SPECIOUS
1.seeming reasonable but incorrect
“a specious argument”
2. misleading in appearance,
especially misleadingly attractive.
"the music trade gives Golden Oldies a
specious appearance of novelty"
SOPHISTRY
1. the use of fallacious
arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.
“a fallacious argument.”
#MONDAY
ECLECTIC
1. deriving ideas, style, or
taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.
"her musical tastes are eclectic"
NARCISSISCM
1.excessive or erotic interest in oneself and
one's physical appearance
“narcissism
is always shown by the hottest girl in class. ( at least that what they all
think)”
COMPLACENT
1. showing smug or uncritical
satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements.
"you can't afford to be complacent about
security"
TOADY
1.a person who behaves obsequiously to someone
important.
2. act in an obsequious way.
"she imagined him toadying to his
rich clients"
EXEMPLARY
1. serving as a desirable model;
representing the best of its kind.
"an award for exemplary community
service"
2. (of a punishment) serving as a
warning or deterrent.
"exemplary sentencing may discourage the
ultraviolent minority"
#TUESDAY
ESCONCED
1. establish or settle (someone)
in a comfortable, safe, or secret place.
"Agnes ensconced herself in
their bedroom"
IGNOMINIOUS
1. deserving or causing public
disgrace or shame.
"no other party risked ignominious
defeat"
EFFRONTERY
1. insolent or impertinent
behavior.
"one juror had the effrontery to challenge
the coroner's decision"
AMORPHOUS
1. without a clearly defined
shape or form.
"amorphous blue forms and straight black
lines"
2. vague; ill-organized; unclassifiable.
"make explicit the amorphous
statements"
3. (of a group of people or an organization) lacking a clear structure or
focus.
"an amorphous and leaderless
legislature"
ACERBIC
1. (especially of a comment or
style of speaking) sharp and forthright.
"his acerbic wit"
#WEDNESDAY
INCISIVE
1. (of a person or mental
process) intelligently analytical and clear-thinking.
"she was an incisive critic"
2. of an account) accurate and
sharply focused.
"the songs offer incisive pictures of American
ways"
GOSSAMER
1. used to refer to something
very light, thin, and insubstantial or delicate.
"in the light from the table lamp, his hair
was blond gossamer"
ABRIDGE
1. shorten (a book, movie,
speech, or other text) without losing the sense.
"the cassettes have been abridged from the
original stories"
2. curtail (rights or
privileges).
"even the right to free speech can be abridged
EVINCED
1. reveal the presence of (a
quality or feeling).
"his letters evince the excitement he felt at
undertaking this journey"
2. be evidence of; indicate.
"man's inhumanity to man as evinced in the
use of torture"
DISPARAGE
1. regard or represent as being
of little worth.
"he never missed an opportunity to disparage
his competitors"
#THURSDAY
FLOUT
1. openly disregard (a rule, law
or convention).
"these same companies still flout basic ethical
practices"
2 mock; scoff.
"the women pointed and flouted at her"
DECISIVE
1. settling an issue; producing a
definite result.
"the archers played a decisive part in the
victory"
2. having or showing the ability
to make decisions quickly and effectively.
"she had an image of being tough and
decisive"
EXUBERANCE
1. the quality of being full of
energy, excitement, and cheerfulness; ebullience.
"a sense of youthful exuberance"
2. The quality of growing
profusely; luxuriance.
"plants growing with wild exuberance"
WITHER
1. (of a plant) become dry and
shrivelled.
"the grass had withered to an unappealing
brown"
2. fall into decay or decline.
"it is not true that old myths either die or wither
away"
ESCHEW
1. deliberately avoid using;
abstain from.
"he appealed to the crowd to eschew
violence"
#FRIDAY
PRECLUDE
1. prevent from happening; make
impossible.
"the secret nature of his work precluded
official recognition"
OCCLUDE
1. stop, close up, or obstruct
(an opening, orifice, or passage).
"thick make-up can occlude the pores"
WINNOW
1. remove (people or things) from
a group until only the best ones are left.
"guidelines that would help winnow out those
not fit to be soldiers"
PRESAGE
1. be a sign or warning of (an
imminent event, typically an unwelcome one).
"the heavy clouds above the moorland presaged
snow"
PORTENT
1. a sign or warning that a
momentous or calamitous event is likely to happen.
"many birds are regarded as being portents of
death"
2. an exceptional or wonderful
person or thing.
"what portent can be greater than a pious
notary?"
#SATURDAY
SYMBIOSIS
1. a mutually beneficial relationship between different people or groups.
"a perfect mother and daughter
symbiosis"
AMBIVALENCE
1. The state of having mixed
feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
"the law's ambivalence about the importance of
a victim's identity"
STYMIE
1. prevent or hinder the progress
of.
"the changes must not be allowed to stymie new
medical treatments"
RACONTEUR
1. a person who tells anecdotes
in a skilful and amusing way.
"a colourful raconteur"
CUNNING
1. having or showing skill in
achieving one's ends by deceit or evasion.
"a cunning look came into his eyes"
OBLOQUY
1. strong public condemnation.
"he endured years of contempt and
obloquy"
