NEW 5: SQUARE ROOT OF PI

winnow

(of the wind) to blow

luxuriate

To take pleasure in; indulge

effulgence

a brilliant radiance

nascence

a coming into being; a beginning

parlance

a particular manner of speaking

abdication

a resignation and renunciation of power

presentiment

a sense of something about to happen

felicitous

appropriate, well chosen

genuflect

bend the knee as in worship or respect

onus

burden; responsibility

sultry

hot and humid

benighted

ignorant; unenlightened

privation

lack of necessities

dilettante

one who dabbles in an art or a science

gubernatorial

pertaining to a governor

Praxis

practice, as distinguished from theory; practical application

augur

seer; prophet

fulsome

so excessive as to be disgusting

equivocate

speak ambiguously or evasively; to prevaricate

regalia

the fancy clothing of a king

exculpate

to free from guilt or blame; exonerate

disaggregate

to separate something into its constituent parts

untoward

unfavorable or unfortunate

ballyhoo

uproar

bellicose

warlike; quarrelsome