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words that have been recently imported into my lexical module

ablution: A washing or cleansing of the body, especially as part of a religious rite.
acquiesce: To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object; -- usually followed by in, sometimes by to.(ack-wee-ESS)
acrimoniously: Bitter and sharp in language or tone; rancorous: an acrimonious on-air exchange between the candidate and the anchorperson.
affecation: Behavior that is assumed rather than natural; artificiality. A particular habit, as of speech or dress, adopted to give a false impression.
ambivalence: The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings, such as love and hate, toward a person, an object, or an idea. (ambivalent)
anomie: Social instability caused by steady erosion of standards and values. Alienation and purposelessness experienced by a person or a class as a result of a lack of standards and values.
apotheosis: Exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification. An exalted or glorified example: Their leader was the apotheosis of courage.
apotropaic: Intended to ward off evil: an apotropaic symbol.
argy-bargy: A lively or disputatious discussion.
assuaged: To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe: assuage her grief. To pacify or calm: assuage their chronic insecurity.
atrabilious: Melancholic; gloomy. Irritable; ill-natured; peevish.
atrophy: A wasting away, deterioration, or diminution: intellectual atrophy

callously: Emotionally hardened; unfeeling: a callous indifference to the suffering of others.
capacious: Capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy.
capricious: overned or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable.
captious: Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
chagrin: A keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event: To her chagrin, the party ended just as she arrived.
cogitate: To consider carefully and deeply; to ponder; to turn over in one's mind.
compunction: A strong uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt. A sting of conscience or a pang of doubt aroused by wrongdoing or the prospect of wrongdoing.
conciliate: To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.
contiguous: Sharing an edge or boundary; touching.Neighboring; adjacent.
contrite: Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.
contumelious: Exhibiting contumely; rudely contemptuous; insolent; disdainful.
contumacy: Stubborn perverseness; pertinacious resistance to authority.
contumacious: adj. of contumacy.
conundrum: A difficult problem.
conventicle: A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.
convival: pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial.
copacetic: Completely satisfactory.
coquettish: A woman who makes teasing sexual or romantic overtures; a flirt. feigning coquettish sophistication.
corpulent: Excessively fat.
coxcomb: A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments.
curmudgeon: a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas

decorum: Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety. The conventions of polite behavior. See Synonyms at etiquette.
depilated: To remove hair from (the body).
despotically: Having the character of, or pertaining to, a despot; absolute in power; possessing and abusing unlimited power.
dilatory: Tending to postpone or delay: dilatory in his work habits. Marked by procrastination or delay; tardy; slow; sluggish
disquisition: A formal discourse on a subject, often in writing. An elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion
dullard: A person regarded as mentally dull; a dolt. A stupid person; a dunce. --Shak. -- a. Stupid. --Bp. Hall.

extirpate: To pull up by the roots. To destroy totally; exterminate. To remove by surgery.

fulminate: To issue or send forth decrees or censures with the assumption of supreme authority;To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report. He lets others fulminate on his behalf while he maintains his gentlemanly demeanor.
frivolous: Unworthy of serious attention; trivial: a frivolous novel. Inappropriately silly: a frivolous purchase.

egregious: Conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious mistake.
ephemerality: Living or lasting only for a day, as certain plants or insects do. Lasting for a markedly brief time.
eutectic: Exhibiting the constitution or properties of such a solid. A mixture of substances having a minimum melting point.

flummoxed: To confuse; perplex.

gastronome: A person devoted to refined sensuous enjoyment, especially of good food and drink.

ingenuousness: Lacking in sophistication or worldliness; artless. Openly straightforward or frank; candid. See Synonyms at naive.
inveigle: to lead astray as if blind; to persuade by deceptive arts or flattery; to entice. (in-VAY-gul)
impetuous: Characterized by sudden and forceful energy or emotion; impulsive and passionate. Having or marked by violent force: impetuous, heaving waves.
impugn: To attack as false; to challenge in argument; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose. Arum said he didn't want to impugn the decision of the judges
incandescent: Emitting visible light as a result of being heated. Shining brilliantly; very bright. incandescent intelligence. syn. bright.
inculcate: To teach (others) by frequent instruction or repetition; indoctrinate. To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition.
indolent: Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy. Conducive to inactivity or laziness; lethargic.
indomitable: Not to be subdued; untamable; invincible; as, an indomitable will, courage, animal.
ineffable: Incapable of being expressed; indescribable or unutterable. Not to be uttered; taboo: the ineffable name of the Deity.
ineluctable: Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable: “Those war plans rested on a belief in the ineluctable superiority of the offense over the defense”
inimical: Injurious or harmful in effect; adverse: habits inimical to good health. Unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical voice.
inoculate: To introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of. To communicate a disease to (a living organism) by transferring its causative agent into the organism.
insatiable: Impossible to satiate or satisfy: an insatiable appetite; an insatiable hunger for knowledge.
insouciance: Carelessness; heedlessness; thoughtlessness; unconcern, the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you.

lackadaisical: Lacking spirit, liveliness, or interest; languid: There'll be no time to correct lackadaisical driving techniques after trouble develops.
laconic: Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.
lacunae: An empty space or a missing part; a gap.
lascivious: Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions. Harry... volunteered with a lascivious leer, flirting as usual.  (luh-SIV-ee-uhs)
logorrhea: Excessive talkativeness or wordiness.
lugubrious: Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree. lugubrious emblems of mortality.

malapropism: Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.
maleficent: Harmful or evil in intent or effect. Maleficient forces.
mendacious: Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person. False; counterfeit; containing falsehood; as, a mendacious statement.
modicum: A small, moderate, or token amount.

nascent: Coming into existence; emerging: Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being.

obfuscation: To make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand: A great effort was made . . . to obscure or obfuscate the truth.
obstreperous: Noisily and stubbornly defiant. Aggressively boisterous. kept up an obstreperous clamor.
opprobrium: Disgrace arising from exceedingly shameful conduct; ignominy. Scornful reproach or contempt. A cause of shame or disgrace.

pabulum: A substance that gives nourishment; food. Insipid intellectual nourishment.
paucity: Smallness of number; fewness. Scarcity; dearth: a paucity of natural resources.
panegyric: An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation
pedantic: Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules. The central meaning shared by this adjective is marked by a narrow, often tiresome focus on or display of learning and especially its trivial aspects
peremptorily: Putting an end to all debate or action: a peremptory decree. Having the nature of or expressing a command; urgent.
perfunctory: Done merely to carry out a duty; performed mechanically; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference.
peregrination: A traveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. His peregrination abroad.
pertinacious: Holding tenaciously to a purpose, belief, opinion, or course of action. Stubbornly or perversely persistent.
piquant: Pleasantly pungent or tart in taste; spicy.
poltroon: A base coward. magazine poltroons who perpetuate this absurd creation.
polysemous: Having or characterized by many meanings.
precarious: Dangerously lacking in security or stability: a precarious posture; precarious footing on the ladder. Based on uncertain, unwarranted, or unproved premises: a precarious solution to a difficult problem. 
prerogative: An exclusive right or privilege held by a person or group, especially a hereditary or official right
prolix: Tediously prolonged; wordy: editing a prolix manuscript. Tending to speak or write at excessive length. syn: wordy.
psychopomp: a conductor of souls to the afterworld; Hermes was their psychopomp.
psychosomatic: Of or relating to a disorder having physical symptoms but originating from mental or emotional causes.
punchinello: The short, fat buffoon or clown in an Italian puppet show. One who is felt to resemble a short, fat clown.
pundit: A Brahman scholar or learned man. Used as a title of respect for a learned man in India.
pusillanimous: Lacking courage; cowardly.
putrescent: Becoming putrid; putrefying. Of or relating to putrefaction.

quagmire: Land with a soft, muddy surface. A difficult or precarious situation; a predicament.

risible: Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing.

sardonically: Scornfully or cynically mocking. Synonym of sarcastic.
scabrous: Difficult to handle; knotty: a scabrous situation. Dealing with scandalous or salacious material: a scabrous novel.
sinuous: Characterized by many curves or turns; winding: a sinuous stream. Characterized by supple and lithe movements: the sinuous grace of a dancer.
skulduggery: Crafty deception or trickery or an instance of it. verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way .
slovenly: Untidy, as in dress or appearance. Marked by negligence; slipshod. See Synonyms at sloppy.
solicitous: Anxious or concerned: a solicitous parent. Full of desire; eager. Marked by or given to anxious care and often hovering attentiveness.
subterfuge: A deceptive stratagem or device: the paltry subterfuge of an anonymous signature

tempestuous: Of, relating to, or resembling a tempest: tempestuous gales. Tumultuous; stormy: a tempestuous relationship.

ubiquity: Existence or apparent existence everywhere at the same time; omnipresence: the repetitiveness, the selfsameness, and the ubiquity of modern mass culture.

turpitude: Inherent baseness or vileness of principle, words, or actions; shameful wickedness; depravity. "moral terpitude"

venal: Marked by corrupt dealings, especially bribery: a venal administration.
veridical: Truthful; veracious. Coinciding with fact or reality; genuine or real.