Vocab

• Circumvent: to find a way around (an obstacle or a problem)
• Clamor: A loud and confused noise, especially that of people shouting vehemently
• Cleave: To split or sever something, especially along a natural line or grain
• Cobbler: A person who mends shoes as a trade
• Cogent: Clear, logical, and convincing
• Cognizant: Having knowledge or awareness of something
• Comensurate: Corresponding in size or degree; in proportion
• Complement: Something that completes or goes well with something
• Compunction: A feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad
• Concomitant: Naturally accompanying or associated
• Conduit: A channel for conveying water or other fluid
• Conflagration: A large destructive fire
• Congruity: The quality of being in agreement or harmony
• Connive: To secretly allow or be involved in wrongdoing, especially without interfering or preventing it
• Consign: To deliver something to a person's custody, typically to be sold
• Abject: bad experience or present to the maximum extent or character without pride or dignity
• Aberration: unwelcome or a departure from what is normal
• Abjure: solemnly renounce, reject
• Abnegation: rejecting, abjuring, or renouncing
• Abrogate: repeal or do away with (a law, correct, or formal agreement), evade.
• Abscond: Leave secretly, typically to avoid detection of or arrest for an unlawful action such as theft
• Abstruse: difficult to understand
• Accede: agree to demand, request, or assume a position
• Accost: Approach and address someone boldly or aggressively
• Accretion: growth by gradual accumulation of layers or formed by its growing layers
• Acumen: ability to make good judgments and quick decisions in a domain
• Adamant: refusing to change one’s mind or to be persuaded
• Admonish: warn or reprimand someone firmly, advise or urge sincerely
• Adumbrate: report or represent in outline, indicate faintly, foreshadow, or symbolize
• Adverse: preventing success or development, harmful, unfavorable
• Demagogue: a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument
• Denigrate: Criticize unfairly; disparage
• Derivative: Imitative of the work of another person, often with disapproval; originating from, based on, or influenced by something else
• Despot: A ruler or person who holds absolute power, typically in a cruel or oppressive way
• Diaphanous: Light, delicate, and translucent, often used to describe fabric
• Didactic: Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive
• Dirge: A mournful song or piece of music expressing grief or lament
• Disaffected: Dissatisfied with the people in authority and no longer willing to support them
• Blandishment : a flattering or pleasing statement or action used to persuade someone gently to do something, N
• Dogmatic: Inclined to lay down principles as incontrovertibly true, often without consideration of evidence or differing opinions.