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WMC Words
WMC words and definitions
25
Language - English
8th Grade
11/30/2012

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Wayward
Definition
Turning away from what is right or proper; willful; swayed or prompted by caprice; erratic; or unpredictable
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Lobby
Definition
an entrance hall(n); a person or group that tries to influence legislatures(v)
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Sycophant
Definition
A self-seeking servile flatterer(n); a person who tries to please someone in order to gain advantages(n); to inform against;(v)
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Vitriol
Definition
A sulfate of various metal, something highly caustic or severe in effect, as criticism, bitter criticism(n)
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Uphold
Definition
To support or defend against opposition or criticism; to keep up or keep from sinking; to lift upwards; to give moral support or inspiration(n)
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Forgo
Definition
To neglect, overlook; to quit or leave; to go or pass; to give up or resign(v)
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Shortfall
Definition
a failure to attain a specified amount or level; a shortage; the amount by which a supply falls short by or which a supply falls short of expectation, or demand(n)
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Unctuous
Definition
Fatty, oily; smooth and greasy in texture or appearance, revealing or marked by a smug, false earnestness or spirituality(adj)
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Harridan
Definition
a strict, bossy, or belligerent woman; a scolding vicious woman; hag
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Supplicant
Definition
A humble person, one who asks earnestly, a person who supplicates(n); entreating humbly;(adj0 a prayer(n)
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Imbroglio
Definition
an extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation; a confused heap or entanglement; a complicated disagreement; an acutely painful misunderstanding; violently confused or bitterly complex altercation(n)
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Condescending
Definition
having or showing attitude of patronizing superiority; showing or characterized by a patronizing or superior attitude toward others(adj)
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Privation
Definition
an act or instance of depriving; lacking of what is needed for existence(n)
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Ingratiate
Definition
to gain favor or favorable acceptance for by deliberate effort(v)
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Fawning
Definition
displaying exaggerated flattery or affection(adj);to give servile display of exaggerated flattery or affection(v); a newborn deer in its first year(n)
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Rapacious
Definition
aggressively greedy; ravenous; very eager or greedy for something;(of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; living on prey(adj)
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Deign
Definition
to do something beneath one's dignity; to do something to lower oneself(v)
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Coherent
Definition
Capable of logical and consistent speech or thought; logical; consistent and orderly; sticking together; having the same phase or a fixed phase different(adj)
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Disjointed
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HAVING THE JOINTS OR CONNECTIONS SEPARATED; disconnected; incoherent; a disjointed course; broken up; disconnected(adj)
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Inveigh
Definition
To speak or write about something with great hostility(v)
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Rife
Definition
abundant, plentiful, vast amount of something; detrimental(adj)
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Burgeon
Definition
to send forth growth; to bloom; to grow and extend rapidly(v) a bud of a plant(n)
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Abdicate
Definition
to renounce ones throne; fail to fulfill or undertake(v)
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Spate
Definition
a large number of things of the same type that suddenly happen in a very short period of time; a sudden or strong outburst; an unusually large number of events that happen suddenly and at the same time(n)
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Dale
Definition
a steep valley(n)
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