Title: August 13 Licentious: adj: lascivious; libertine, lewd
1August 13Licentious adj lascivious libertine,
lewd
2August 14Humanities n branches of knowledge
concerned with human beings and their culture
3August 15free verse n poetry without a regular
pattern of meter and rhyme, relying on other
elements for its structure
4August 16 misanthrope n a person who hates all
people
5August 17 homicide n the killing of one person
by another a person who kills another murder
6August 20virile adj having certain
characteristics associated with men manly
7August 21bodacious adj blatant remarkable
impressive
8August 22tone n an authors attitude toward
the audience or subject
9August 23autocrat n a ruler who has absolute
and unlimited power a despot
10August 24Automaton n a person who behaves in a
mechanical, routine manner a robot
11August 27autonomy n the condition of being
self-governing independence
12August 28egoism n valuing everything according
to ones personal interest conceit
13August 29genealogy n a record of descent from
ones ancestors the study of family records
lineage
14August 30genocide n the planned annihilation
of a racial, political, or cultural group
15August 31motif n a dominant idea in a work of
literature
16September 3genteel adj well-mannered refined
polite
17September 4remonstrate v to speak in protest
or disapproval
18September 4gentry n aristocratic or well-bred
people
19September 5heterogeneous adj having parts that
are unrelated or completely different incongruous
20September 6umbrage n extreme offense
21Sept. 7oxymoron n a self-contradictory
combination of words
22Sept 8engender v to give rise to to bring
into existence
23Sept. 9genesis n a beginning or origin
24Sept 10indigenous adj occurring in or
characterizing an area Native
25Sept 11altruism n concern for the welfare of
others
26Sept 12progenitor n a direct ancestor an
originator of a line of descent
27Sept. 13progeny n children or descendants
offspring
28Sept. 16matrix n the surroundings within which
something begins or develops
29Sept. 17matriculate v to register as a student
at a college or university
30Sept. 18apostrophe n a rhetorical device in
which an absent or imaginary person/abstraction
is directly addressed as though present
31Sept. 19avuncular adj like an uncle
32Sept. 20uxorious adj dominated by ones wife
33Sept. 23bigamy n marriage to two mates
34Sept. 24puerile adj childish immature
35Sept. 25pedagogue n a teacher
36Sept 26pedant n a person who pays excessive
attention to learning rules rahter that to
understanding
37September 27entity n something that has a real
or independent existence
38September 30parody n the imitation of a
serious piece of literature meant to ridicule the
work its style or the author
39Oct. 1 moribund adj about to die or end
40Oct. 2postmortem n an examination to determine
the cause of death an autopsy
41Oct. 8mortify v to shame
42Oct. 9innate adj possessed at birth inborn
43Oct. 10naive adj childlike unsophisticated
44Oct. 11 nascent adj emerging coming into
existence
45Oct. 14amicable adj friendly
46Oct. 15personification n a figure of speech
that gives nonhuman ideas, abstractions, or
objects human qualities
47Oct 16enamored adj in love with charmed by
48Oct. 17inimical adj harmful
49Oct. 18odious adj distasteful hateful
50Oct. 21 philander v to engage in casual love
affairs
51Oct. 22appease v to satisfy or relieve to calm
52Oct. 23 pacific adj serene peaceful
53Oct. 24antipathy n a hatred or dislike
54Oct. 25apathy n lack of feeling, energy, or
interest
55Oct. 28empathy n the ability to identify with
someone else and understand that persons
situation or feelings
56Oct. 29misogamy n hatred of marriage
57Oct. 30misogyny n hatred of women
58October 31synesthesia n describing one kind of
sensation in terms of another
59Nov. 1covet v to crave or desire, especially
something belonging to someone else
60Nov. 4 cupidity n greed avarice
61Nov. 5finagle v to trick, swindle, or cheat (a
person)
62Nov. 6implacable adj impossible to calm or
appease
63Nov. 7domicile n a home residence
64Nov. 8somnamblate v to walk while sleeping
65Nov. 11somnolent adj drowsy sleepy
66Nov. 12 ablution n washing of the body,
especially as a ritual purification
67Nov. 13deluge n a downpour a great flood
68Nov. 14divest v to take away something
belonging to someone to dispossess
69Nov. 15investiture n a ceremony in which a
person formally receives the authority and
symbols of an office
70Nov. 18depredation n destruction plunder
71Nov. 19 syntax n the arrangement of words
within a sentence
72Nov. 20precocious adj showing unusually early
development, especially mentally
73Nov. 21voracious adj extremely hungry greedy
74Nov. 22mellifluous adj sweet as honey
75December 2imbibe v to drink (especially
alcohol)
76Dec. 3potable adj safe to drink
77Dec. 4allude v to make an indirect reference
to
78Dec. 5elude v to avoid or escape from by
cunning to evade
79Dec. 6understatement n a figure of speech in
which the literal sense is far short of the
magnitude of the subject or circumstances
80Dec. 9recapitulation n the restatement of a
main idea
81Dec. 10cerebration n the action of thinking
thought
82Dec. 11facet n one of the many sides of a cut
stone or jewel
83Dec. 112effrontery n flippant or insulting
boldness audacity
84Dec. 13 supercilious adj haughty and aloof
disdainful