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elucidate

Answer 1

— vb to make clear (something obscure or difficult); clarify [C16: from Late Latin ēlūcidāre to enlighten; see lucid]

Answer 2

— n 1. a point in time beginning a new or distinctive period: the invention of nuclear weapons marked an epoch in the history of warfare 2. a long period of time marked by some predominant or typical characteristic; era [C17: from New Latin epocha, from Greek epokhē cessation; related to ekhein to hold, have]

Answer 3

— adj 1. capable of varying interpretations; ambiguous 2. deliberately misleading or vague; evasive 3. of doubtful character or sincerity; dubious [C17: from Late Latin aequivocus, from Latin equi- + vōx voice]

Answer 4

— n the distinctive character, spirit, and attitudes of a people, culture, era, etc [from Greek ethos "moral character, nature, disposition, habit, custom,"]

Answer 5

— vb ( tr ) to make evident; prove; show (something, such as an emotion) clearly [C17: from Latin ēvincere to overcome; see evict]

Answer 6

— vb 1. to make clear or explicit; explain 2. to formulate or develop (a theory, hypothesis, etc) [C16: from Latin explicāre to unfold, from plicāre to fold]

Answer 7

— vb ( tr ) to amend (a book, text, etc) by removing (obscene or offensive sections) [C17: from Latin expurgāre to clean out, from purgāre to purify; see purge]

Answer 8

— adj relating to, used in, or connected with a court of law: forensic science [C17: from Latin forēnsis public, from forum]

Answer 9

— adj 4. obviously or exceptionally culpable or wrong; flagrant: gross inefficiency 5. lacking in perception, sensitivity, or discrimination: gross judgments [C14: from Old French gros large, from Late Latin grossus thick]

Answer 10

— adv up to this time; until now:

Answer 11

— vb (usually foll by with ) , -bues , -buing , -bued 1. to instil or inspire (with ideals, principles, etc): his sermons were imbued with the spirit of the Reformation [C16: from Latin imbuere to stain, accustom]

Answer 12

— vb ( tr ) to restrict or retard in action, progress, etc; hinder; obstruct [C17: from Latin impedīre to hinder, literally: shackle the feet, from pēs foot]

Answer 13

— vb 1. to show to be involved, esp in a crime 2. to involve as a necessary inference; imply: his protest implicated censure by the authorities 3. to affect intimately: this news implicates my decision 4. rare to intertwine or entangle [C16: from Latin implicāre to involve, from im- + plicāre to fold]

Answer 14

— n 1. law an instruction or order issued by a court to a party to an action, esp to refrain from some act, such as causing a nuisance 2. a command, admonition, etc 3. the act of enjoining [C16: from Late Latin injunctiō, from Latin injungere to enjoin]

Answer 15

— n 1. a person who takes part in a conversation 2. Also called: middleman the man in the centre of a troupe of minstrels who engages the others in talk or acts as announcer 1514, from L. interlocutus, pp. of interloqui "interrupt," from inter- "between" + loqui "speak."

Answer 16

— vb 1. to insert or introduce (a comment, passage, etc) into (a conversation, text, etc) 2. to falsify or alter (a text, manuscript, etc) by the later addition of (material, esp spurious or valueless passages) 3. ( intr ) to make additions, interruptions, or insertions [C17: from Latin interpolāre to give a new appearance to, from inter- + polīre to polish]

Answer 17

— vb ( tr ) to say or do again; repeat (not *re*iterate) [C16: from Latin iterāre, from iterum again]

Answer 18

— vb , -sons , -soning , -soned 1. to throw away; abandon: to jettison old clothes 2. to throw overboard [C15: from Old French getaison, ultimately from Latin jactātiō a tossing about; see jactation]

Answer 19

— n , pl -aries a book containing readings appointed to be read at divine services [C16: from Latin lectio a reading, from legere to read, select] (lection — n a variant reading of a passage in a particular copy or edition of a text 2. a portion of sacred writing read in a divine service; lesson; pericope. )

Answer 20

— n 1. law a. the publication of defamatory matter in permanent form, as by a written or printed statement, picture, etc — vb , -bels , -belling , -belled , -bels , -beling , -beled [C13 (in the sense: written statement), hence C14 legal sense: a plaintiff's statement, via Old French from Latin libellus a little book, from liber a book]

Answer 21

— adj 1. readily understood; clear 2. shining or glowing 3. psychiatry of or relating to a period of normality between periods of insane or irresponsible behaviour [C16: from Latin lūcidus full of light, from lūx light]

Answer 22

— vb to make or become less severe or harsh; moderate [C15: from Latin mītigāre, from mītis mild + agere to make]

Answer 23

--adj being related such that each excludes or precludes the other related in such a way that each thing makes the other thing impossible : not able to be true at the same time or to exist together

Answer 24

— n a selection from a book, esp a passage from the Bible read at religious services [from Late Latin pericope "section of a book," from Greek perikope "a section" of a book, literally "a cutting all round," from peri- "around" (see peri-) + kope "a cutting]

Answer 25

— vb ( tr ) to spread through or throughout, esp subtly or gradually; permeate [C17: from Latin pervādere, from per- through + vādere to go]

Answer 26

— adj 1. keen or incisive: trenchant criticism 2. vigorous and effective: a trenchant foreign policy 3. distinctly defined: a trenchant outline 4. archaic , poetic or sharp: a trenchant sword [C14: from Old French trenchant cutting, from trenchier to cut; see trench]

Answer 27

— adj 1. obtained or undergone at second hand through sympathetic participation in another's experiences 2. suffered, undergone, or done as the substitute for another: vicarious punishment 3. delegated: vicarious authority 4. taking the place of another [C17: from Latin vicārius substituted, from vicis interchange; see vice ³, vicissitude]

Answer 28

— adj 1. of or involving dispute or controversy — n 2. an argument or controversy, esp over a doctrine, belief, etc 3. a person engaged in such an argument or controversy [C17: from Medieval Latin polemicus, from Greek polemikos relating to war, from polemos war]

Answer 29

— vb 1. to assume or put forward as fact or the factual basis for an argument; postulate 2. to put in position — n 3. a fact, idea, etc, that is posited; assumption [C17: from Latin pōnere to place, position]

Answer 30

— n 1. a person who precedes another, as in an office 2. something that precedes something else 3. an ancestor; forefather [C14: via Old French from Late Latin praedēcessor, from prae before + dēcēdere to go away, from dē away + cēdere to go]

Answer 31

1. Rhetoric . the anticipation of possible objections in order to answer them in advance. 2. the assigning of a person, event, etc., to a period earlier than the actual one; the representation of something in the future as if it already existed or had occurred; prochronism. 3. the use of a descriptive word in anticipation of its becoming applicable. [C16: via Late Latin from Greek: anticipation, from prolambanein to anticipate, from pro- ² + lambanein to take]

Answer 32

— adj 1. relating to, having, or indicating conscious intention 2. serving a purpose; useful [C13: from Old French porpos, from porposer to plan, from Latin prōpōnere to propose]

Answer 33

— n Old Testament Ecclesiastes or its author, traditionally believed to be Solomon [from Hebrew qōheleth] c.1300, name given to one of the Old Testament books, traditionally ascribed to Solomon, from Greek ekklesiastes (see ecclesiastic), to render Hebrew qoheleth "one who addresses an assembly," from qahal "assembly." The title is technically the designation of the speaker, but that word throughout is usually rendered into English as "The Preacher" (which Klein calls "erroneous").

Answer 34

1. pertaining to or using a rule or procedure that can be applied repeatedly. — n. (recursion) the act or process of returning or running back

Answer 35

— vb 1. to compose or draft (an edict, proclamation, etc) 2. to put (a literary work, etc) into appropriate form for publication; edit [C15: from Latin redigere to bring back, from red- re- + agere to drive]

Answer 36

— vb ( tr ) to speak disapprovingly to (a person); rebuke or scold [C14: from Old French reprover , from Late Latin reprobāre , from Latin re- + probāre to examine, approve 1]

Answer 37

— vb 1. to reject the authority or validity of; refuse to accept or ratify 2. to refuse to acknowledge or pay (a debt) 3. to cast off or disown (a son, lover, etc) [C16: from Latin repudiāre to put away, from repudium a separation, divorce, from re- + pudēre to be ashamed]

Answer 38

— n 1. the act of surveying things past (often in the phrase in retrospect ) — vb (often foll by to ) 2. to contemplate (anything past); look back on (something) 3. to refer [C17: from Latin retrōspicere to look back, from retro- + specere to look]

Answer 39

— n 1. ( often plural ) the first principles or elementary stages of a subject 2. ( often plural ) a partially developed version of something [C16: from Latin rudīmentum a beginning, from rudis unformed; see rude]

Answer 40

— n , pl -mata 1. a plan, diagram, or scheme [C19: from Greek: form]

Answer 41

— n 1. a belief, principle, or practice which is commonly adhered to but which is thought by some people to be inappropriate or out of date 2. a custom, phrase, or use of language that acts as a test of belonging to, or as a stumbling block to becoming a member of, a particular social class, profession, etc late 14c., the Hebrew word shibboleth, meaning "flood, stream," also "ear of corn;" in Judges xii:4-6. It was the password used by the Gileadites to distinguish their own men from fleeing Ephraimites, because Ephraimites could not pronounce the -sh- sound. Hence the figurative sense of "watchword" (first recorded 1630s), which evolved by 1862 to "outmoded slogan still adhered to." A similar test-word was cicera "chick pease," used by the Italians to identify the French (who could not pronounce it correctly) during the massacre called the Sicilian Vespers (1282).

Answer 42

— adj 1. not genuine or real [C17: from Latin spurius of illegitimate birth]

Answer 43

— adj occurring after; succeeding [C15: from Latin subsequēns following on, from subsequī, from sub- near + sequī to follow]

Answer 44

— vb 1. to bring about the complete downfall or ruin of (something existing or established by a system of law, etc) 2. to undermine the moral principles of (a person, etc); corrupt [C14: from Latin subvertere to overturn, from sub- from below + vertere to turn]

Answer 45

— vb 1. to take the place of (something old-fashioned or less appropriate); supplant 2. to replace in function, office, etc; succeed 3. to discard or set aside or cause to be set aside as obsolete or inferior [C15: via Old French from Latin supersedēre to sit above, from super- + sedēre to sit]

Answer 46

— adj 1. lying or resting on the back with the face, palm, etc, upwards 2. displaying no interest or animation; lethargic [Latin supīnus lying face up, inactive]

Answer 47

— vb 1. ( tr ) to shorten by cutting off a part, end, or top — adj 2. cut short; truncated 3. biology having a blunt end, as though cut off at the tip: a truncate leaf [C15: from Latin truncāre to lop]

Answer 48

— adj 1. implied or inferred without direct expression; understood; silent; saying nothing (taciturn - habitually silent) [C17: from Latin tacitus, past participle of tacēre to be silent]

Answer 49

-adj. developing or evolving in a steady, consistent, and undeviating way. [from Latin linearis "belonging to a line," from linea "string, line"]

Answer 50

— adj 1. unambiguous or unmistakable — n 2. a word or term that has only one meaning [Late Latin ūnivōc ( us ) ( ūni- uni- + -vōcus, adj. derivative of vōx, stem vōc-, voice) + -al]

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