vocab

• a population that is scattered across regions that are separate from its geographic place of origin. The word is used about people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently reside elsewhere

  diaspora
• expressing sorrow; mournful

  causing grief or misfortune

  doleful
• causing grief or misfortune

  a doleful experience
• showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect


  insolent
• not showing proper respect; rude

  impertinent
• not relevant relevant torelevant a particular matter; irrelevant

  impertinent
• conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies

  repartee
• the process or fact of an attitude, habit, or belief becoming so firmly established that change is very difficult or unlikely n.

  entrenchment
• firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change; ingrained adj.

  entrenched
• establish (an attitude, habit, or belief) so firmly that change is very difficult or unlikely

  entrench
• [archaic] indeed (often used ironically or to express surprise or indignation) adv.

  forsooth
• anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment n.

  indignation
• feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment adj.


  indignant
• feeling resentment at having been unfairly treated adj.

  aggrieved
• reduce in extent or quantity; restrictv.

  curtail
• relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities adj./n.

  egalitarian
• leaving no doubt; unambiguous adj.

  unequivocal
• indisputable

  "they presented unequivocal evidence to prove his guilt"
• [literary] womanly qualities; womanhood n.

  muliebrity
• coins collectively n.

  coinage
• the invention of a new word or phrase n.

  coinage
• increase the power, status, or wealth of v.

  aggrandize
• enhance the reputation v.

  aggrandize
• acts of altruistic suicide, otherwise the giving up of one's body in an act of sacrifice. However, it most often refers specifically to autocremation, the act of sacrificing oneself by setting oneself on fire and burning to death n.

  immolation
• showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish


  altruistic
• (of part of the body) feeling a sharp stinging pain adj.

  Susan rubbed her smarting eyes
• the fact or sensation of feeling a sharp stinging pain n.

  ammonia can cause smarting of the eyes and breathing difficulties
• to feel upset and angry because of failure or criticism v.

  The police are still smarting from their failure to prevent the robbery
• lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder

  the second law of thermodynamics says that entropy always increases with time
• attractive and impressive through being richly colorful or sumptuous adj.

  she was resplendent in a sea-green dress
• prepared to obey others unquestioningly adj.

  she was subservient to her parents
• less important; subordinate adj.

  he expected her career to become subservient to his
• serving as a means to an end; instrumental adj.

  the whole narration is subservient to the moral plan of exemplifying twelve virtues in twelve knights
• providing necessary support to the primary activities or operation of an organization, institution, industry, or system; additional

  Meanwhile, the reforms have generated an impressive array of ancillary benefits
• To belittle or speak ill of someone or something; to criticize or express contempt for something or someone

  I heard a few disparaging comments about the way he handled the crisis
• things so unlike that there is no basis for comparison adj./n.

  they inhabit disparate worlds of thought
• a group of people with a shared characteristic n.

  a cohort of civil servants patiently drafting legislation
• divide (people) into groups with shared characteristicsv.

  in the plan, elementary students will be cohorted, or placed, in an assigned class
• the action, process, or result of combining or uniting n.

  the threat of amalgamation with a competitor
• a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning n.

  The scholar, without good-breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable