july 05 - not so smart after all. but almost! okay, not at all. but, um, almost, huh?
| Word | My Definition | Actual Definition | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| abjure | something used in the context of law. | 1. To recant solemnly; renounce or repudiate. 2. To renounce under oath; forswear. | |
| belie | disguise. | 1. To give a false representation to; misrepresent. 2. To show to be false; contradict: | almost! |
| chicanery | thingamajig | Deception by trickery or sophistry. | sortt-of! |
| circumnavigate | make your rounds around something | 1. To proceed completely around. 2. To go around; circumvent. | whooo! |
| deciduous | fancy word for decide. | 1. Falling off or shed at a specific season or stage of growth. 2. Shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season. 3. Not lasting; ephemeral. | haha |
| epiphany | a revelation of oneself | 1. A revelatory manifestation of a divine being. 2. A sudden manifestation of the essence or meaning of something. 3. A comprehension or perception of reality by means of a sudden intuitive realization. | |
| expurgate | getting rid of somethiing | To remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from (a book, for example) before publication. | well. almost. |
| filibuster | something in vacuum cleaners? | 1. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action. 2. An instance of the use of this delaying tactic; 3. An adventurer who engages in a private military action in a foreign country | heee. |
| hubris | uhh. | Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance. | |
| hypotenuse | no idea. | The hypotenuse of a right triangle is the triangle's longest side; the side opposite the right angle. | well, i never was reallly good in math. |
| inculcate | embed, cultivate, insert | 1. To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition; instill: inculcating sound principles. 2. To teach (others) by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate. | |
| kinetic | movement | Of, relating to, or produced by motion. | |
| nonsectarian | nope. | Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination. | |
| parabola | that thing... like a satellite. | A plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and a plane parallel to an element of the cone or by the locus of points equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point not on the line. | |
| pecuniary | what? | 1. Of or relating to money: a pecuniary loss. 2. Requiring payment of money. | |
| plagiarize | steal; claim other's work as your own | 1. To use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own. 2. To appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another). | |
| plasma | a... cell. organism. | 1. The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended. It differs from serum in that it contains fibrin and other soluble clotting elements. 2. Cell-free, sterilized blood plasma, used in transfusions. 3. Protoplasm or cytoplasm. 4. An electrically neutral, highly ionized gas composed of ions, electrons, and neutral particles. | |
| reciprocal | return the act | 1. Concerning each of two or more persons or things. 2. Interchanged, given, or owed to each other. 3. Performed, experienced, or felt by both sides. 4. Interchangeable; complementary. | |
| respiration | breathing | 1. The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing. 2. The act or process by which an organism without lungs, such as a fish or plant, exchanges gases with its environment. | |
| subjugate | something law-ish! put upon? | 1. To bring under control; conquer. 2. To make subservient; enslave. | well, almost there. |
| supercilious | pretentious | Feeling or showing haughty disdain. | almost? |
| totalitarian | absolutement | Of, relating to, being, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed. | |
| vacuous | empty headed. | 1. Devoid of matter; empty. 2. Lacking intelligence; stupid. 3. Devoid of substance or meaning; inane. 4. Devoid of expression; vacant. 5. Lacking serious purpose or occupation; idle. | |
| vehement | harshly | 1. Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid. 2. Marked by or full of vigor or energy; strong. | |
| winnow | somethiing plant-ish. | 1. To separate the chaff from (grain) by means of a current of air. 2. To rid of undesirable parts. 3. To blow (chaff) off or away. 4. To blow away; scatter. 5. To blow on; fan: a breeze winnowing the tall grass. 6. To examine closely in order to separate the good from the bad; sift. 7. To separate or get rid of (an undesirable part); eliminate: winnowing out the errors in logic. 8. To sort or select (a desirable part); extract. |
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