WORD world - week 5

#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"