Wordly Wise 11 (Week 2)

renegade

1. A person who deserts one group or cause for another; a traitor 2. A person who rejects lawful behavior RENEGADE OMG but like charli was a traitor to her highschool friends when she got famous from renegade and neevr talked to them ever again RENEGADEEEE WHATTT whoever got famous off of the renegade dance is a traitor to their friends 1. winston churchill was regarded as a renegade for deserting the conservative party to join the liberals. 2. some people considered margaret sanger a renegade because of her attempts to provide family planning information to women, in an age when such a giving was illegal

vestment

N (often plural): An outer garment, especially one indicating a role, rank, or office. he's wearing a VEST for and inVESTMENT, the vest and the thing he's doing shows his role in the company yeah for the investment meeting, the CEO made sure to wear fancy vestments to show his CEO level the exquisite vestments worn by an eighteenth-century empress are on display in the museum.

seismic

adj. 1. Caused by or having to do with earthquakes. 2. Having powerful and widespread effects. size-mic, the size of the earthquake was so big that the sound of it got caught on the mic, and obviously because the earthquake was that big, it had powerful effects size-mic the size of the mic was so big that when there was a mic drop, it caused an earth quake. the earth quake had a powerful and widespread effects. 1. Seismic changes in the earth's crust caused the break in the freeway. 2. The new leadership promises political changes of seismic proportions.

disparate

adj. 1. Containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements 2. Showing a marked difference or inequality disparity n. a DISS PER what she ATE, there were many different types of disses that she did, and each diss showed a marked difference DISS-perate desparate for a diss track when ricegum was desperate to make a diss track to get famous, his diss tracks were disparate... it had so many different elements in one song 1. shoshanas resume showed that she had held disparate jobs, from editor to magician to sailor. 2. income distribution in the united states has become increasing disparate since the 1980s 3. there is a great disparity between pings grand ambitions and her modest achievements.

unsavory

adj. 1. Having an unpleasant look, taste, or smell. 2. Morally offensive. unsavory, "this entire culture's food is unsavory, i'm gonna tell everyone this and make them believe it" is morally offensive yeah savory the taste his savory beef jerky was in fact Unsavory... it had an unpleasant look, taste and smell but i felt morally offensive to tell him 1. the week-old sandwich had an unsavory aroma. 2. more details of the unsavory scandal became known after the mayor assaulted his business partner.

betrothed

adj. Engaged to be married. n. A person to whom one is engaged to be married. be-trowed maybe betrayed? i feel betrayed after knowing that engaging to be married was a concept created by a wedding wing company to make money 1. The betrothed couple exchanged gifts to mark their engagement. 2. Charles gave his betrothed an emerald engagement ring.

frenetic

adj. Wildly excited; frantic reminded me of fanatic when i saw it; they're extremely excited for that one thing omg lol when i first saw the word i was like "oh it reminds me of frantic!" and that was the definition The frenetic buying and selling on the floor of the stock market yesterday left investors wary of today's transactions.

nascent

adj. beginning to exist; emerging nae-scent; it's like the nae nae was beginning to exist, and people could just smell that it was going to get famous NAE-scent HAHA yours is really good when the nae nae came out, there was an obvious scent that it would become famous (idk if scent is even use that way lol) and that a trend would begin to exist for the dance emerging cool dance The country's nascent economy, which had developed since the end of the war, was devastated by an earthquake.

queasy

adj. causing nausea or tending to be nauseous 2. causing or experiencing uneasiness; squeamish HEYY QUEASY 1. The pitching and rolling of the boat made some passengers queasy. 2. I felt queasy about saying I didn't know where you were when, in fact, I did.

perspicacious

adj. clear-sighted; shrewd perspicacity n. pers-pic-uous; it's a PERSon, the pic is so clear I could see it's a person even though they're barely on the screen pers-pi-CAY-cious per speak vacation,,, suspiCIOUS i am clear-sighted and could tell that something was wrong when every time i would speak of a vacation (per speak vacation) my friend would get suspicious Realizing quickly that Randolph was perspicacious in investment matters, I relied on him for guidance. 2. because of her many years of training and experience, the psychologist displayed perspicacity of judgement about her patent's psyches.

eclectic

adj. combining elements from a variety of sources. ick.. hectic; ick, this source got too hectic after they combined too many sources clectic sounds like clock-tick? so an electric clock tick - this is an app where the clock the electric but still makes a ticking sound it combines elements from a variety of sources we enjoyed the small, unpretentious restaurant whose eclectic menu offered Thai, Ethiopian, and Argentinian cuisine.

recondite

adj. difficult to understand; abstruse (difficult to understand) reck-on-dite, the w-reck on dite street was difficult to understand, because rarely any cars pass by there sounds like reconcile? she was trying to reconcile but it was really difficult to understand her The law or primogeniture during the Plantagenet era is one of the recondite subjects on which Ms. Gonzalez is an expert.

munificent

adj. extremely generous; liberal in giving munificence n. m-you-nificent; magNIFICENT in giving to other people, no YOU could have this magnificent artwork! money, efficient/ or sufficient she is sufficient when it comes to money so she is extremely generous and always offering to pay for us The basketball star's munificent donation completely funded the construction of the new community center. 2. The foundation was known for its munificence in endowing hospitals and research centers around the world.

lilliputian

adj. extremely small or appearing to be so they took a LILLY POTION, lilly from elementary was really small, and people appear to be small when taking that potion (sorry lilly) lily-pution little portions, extremely small as we walked around the model village, we towered over the lilliputian houses.

inveterate

adj. habitual or deeply rooted; persistent in-vet-er-ate, even when the VET ATE, their habits were imbedded in them, and got up as soon as they heard a doggo whimper IN the VETERan's life style, folding his shirt every day has become a deeply rooted and habitual. it goes without saying that good raconteurs are inveterate storytellers.

blasé

adj. indifferent to what others find pleasurable or exciting because of excessive indulgence or enjoyment; unconcerned (unimpressed or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before) i have no idea so maybe like since the word looks and sounds super fancy- to "blasé," the compliments didn't concern it anymore, it was already too fed up with compliments he has been to blaze pizza too many times (he says it like blasé pizza bc hes fancy) so he doesn't really care what other people get and enjoy from there ethel was blase about winning a caribbean vacation because she had already visited aruba several times.

insensate

adj. lacking sensation or awareness 2. Lacking sense or ability to reason 3. Brutal; lacking feeling in-not, SENSATion no sensation yeah in= not no sensation, thus can't reason 1. when the rescue team reached the skier trapped in the snow, they found her alive, but insensate with no awareness of her surroundings. 2. the artist captured the insensate fury of a storm at sea. 3. because he had no empathy for the feelings of other people, he committed insensate acts of violence.

avuncular

adj. like a benevolent uncle; familiar and indulgent a-VUNK-cular in the show "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," the 4 girls are in kidnapped into a bunk by a secular priest. the girls were made to believe that the priest was like a benevolent uncle, who was just trying to save them from the world apocalypse (he was lying) Sid, an avuncular friend of my father, exuded goodwill and always presented us with charming little gifts when he visited.

intrinsic

adj. relating to the essential nature of something; real or actual intrinsic motivation although the crystal appeared to be a diamond, careful examination revealed that it had no intrinsic value.

kinetic

adj. relation to motion kinetic energy A moving body possesses kinetic energy proportional to its speed and mass.

contiguous

adj. sharing a boundary; being very close or in contact; adjacent i'm pretty sure i've heard/seen this word before, but it's like continuing so it flows right over and is next to each other continuous yeah the two rooms are continuous its just there's a boundary in between, adjacent Properties contiguous to the town landfill cost considerably less than those located downtown.

cavalier

adj. showing an offhand or carefree disregard; arrogant cava-LEE-er, they were rich enough to eat caviar but they were raised wrong, they were incredibly arrogant cava-LEE-er (also apparently this is a type of dog) yeah yours is really good haha Alexei's cavalier attitude toward study may one day catch up with him.

convivial

adj. sociable; concerned with good company and festivities vivian decided that she should go by vivi, so that it's easier to start a conversation about it and make the place more sociable con-with in spanish vivian parties con vivian are always fun bc she is very sociable. The Haddad family reunion was a convivial banquet, lasting far into the night.

Propitious

adj. tending to favor or assist; encouraging prop's to you, you did ALL THIS and you could do so much more pro-PI-shus/tious proficient, profitous the worker is propitious/favor and assist for our company... she is proficient AND brings profit to our company Senator Feynman's sixty percent approval rating was a propitious start to her re-election effort.

itinerant

adj. traveling from place to place n. One who goes from place to place eye-tin-er-ant, the tin man oiled his eye whenever he needed to travel from place to place (wizard of oz) and he was one who traveled from place to place eye-TIN-erant i ten a rent ? i only stay ten days for a rent bc i travel from place to place 1. The intinerant theater group received warm welcomes in the many small towns where it was performed. 2. for theee months last year, i was itinerant in india, traveling from one village to another

edict

end. A statement or command having the force of law dict as in dictionary, it's like a statement that all the definitions in the dictionary is correct E-dict the Egyptians were addicted to the E-cigarettes so they had to make a command that could take people's vapes away by the force of law the Czars edict banning public demonstrations was ignored by the Russian people.

upheaval

n. 1. A radical or violent change. 2. A forceful lifting or warping from beneath. to heave is to carry with great effort, the change from heave to upheaval was a violent change up evil! under the ground, the workers were protesting demanding a radical change. they wanted the evil queen to leave the underground and go above ground. they yelled "UP EVIL" and the evil queen slowly went thru the ground, causing an upheaval on the ground 1. The Civil Rights movement sparked time of upheaval across the country. 2. Small upheavals in our lawn revealed the subterranean paths of moles.

cadence

n. 1. A rhythm marked by a regular beat. 2. The rising and falling of the voice in human speech. k-dense, to k someone is very dense so they were arguing about how it could be very hurtful. their voices rose and quieted, but it was civilized and it was like a rhythm k dance to the rhythm im giving you! also listen to the rising and falling of my voice to know when to stop The crowd thrilled to the cadence of marching feet as the parade passed by. 2. I could tell by the cadence of the stranger's speech that he was extremely agitated.

etymology

n. 1. The history of a word. 2. The science that studies such histories. ology is obviously the study of something, etymo-mae, the green bean thing it's like "what a peculiar name, what's the history behind it?" etti-mology they were trying to find out the history of the word confetti The etymology of many english words reveals the language's close ties to ancient Latin. 2. The etymology of place names often provides interesting cultural and historical information.

attrition

n. 1. a gradual reduction in numbers or loss of strength 2. a weakening resulting from pressure or harassment attrition nutrition they noticed that people were lacking in nutrition and started losing strength one by one. they found out this was due to harassment like "you consume foods with nutrition???? ur so lame" during nutrition at my school, the food court gradually lost numbers bc the food court was putting too much pressure on the students to buy their food 1. the attrition of manufacturing job in the united states was due in part to the rise of inexpensive imports. 2. The guerrillas hid in the jungle and conducted a war of attrition.

archipelago

n. 1. a large group of islands 2. a body of water containing a large number of islands arch-ee-pel-ago, sounds like a combo of architecture and like Michelangelo, because there was no room for architectures that michelangelo could make, they had to move to the islands, where no one has been before architecture pelago kinda sounds like 팔라고 i was trying to sell the architecture plan to the large group of islands so their island could look modern 1. Key West is the southernmost island of the Florida archipelago referred to as "the Keys." 2. The island of Rhodes is located in the Aegean archipelago.

amnesia

n. 1. a loss of memory, usually caused by shock or injury 2. a gap in one's memory amnesia 1. the patient's amnesia was so acute that his own children were strangers to him. 2. While uncle rob had bad amnesia concerning his middle school years, he remembered his high school years perfectly.

canon

n. 1. a rule or principle that provides the norm for judgement 2. the works of a writer accepted as authentic it became the rule or principle that if you want to be considered a photographer, you must have a canon camera. the works of a photographer are accepted as authentic if they use a canon cannon balls were the norm of wars, so when writers wrote about real wars, they would base their book off of the norm 1. those who would not conform to the canons of polite society became social outcasts. 2. The recent discovery of an unpublished short story adds to the Eudora Welty canon.

denouement

n. 1. the outcome of a series of events 2. The final resolution following the climax of the plot of a work of drama or fiction de-new-mah looks kinda like announcement, after something ends, you need the announcement to know the outcome of the events (track) de-new-MAH when we look at the outcome of a series of events/final resolution in "cinderella," the new ma (the evil stepmom) is punished 1. The sudden collapse of the Soviet Union provided an unexpected denouement to the Cold War. 2. The death of the king provides a fitting denouement to Shakespeare's Richard III.

triumvirate

n. A group of three, especially one possessing great power or eminence. tri-three, also sounds like triumph in a way, they're celebrating the fact that one of them holds great power tri-UM-verate triumph for late? the group of three boys possessed great power in school even though they are always late triumph story for tardy people after displacing the other two members of the triumvirate, the general ruled the country as a dictator.

votary

n. A person who is devoted to a cause or organization, especially one of a religious nature. you know they're devoted if they take the time and money to VOTE notary but with a v notary is someone who legally helps people sign documents and stuff this notary is working with a very devoted to religion the votaries of demeter gathered at eleusis for special ceremonies honoring the goddess.

soliloquy

n. A speech in which a character's thoughts are given verbal expression. the guy was given a SOLO for the play, and every small thought was given verbal expression in the play, even when he was thinking "wLILO queek twinz" hamlets most famous soliloquy begins, "to be or not to be."

projectile

n. An object impelled with force or self-propelled through the air. to project into the sky, and part of the word kinda sounds like jet proJETle, it's like the jet is launched into the sky the strange projectile captured on film turned out to be a hubcap tossed in front of the cameras.

bravado

n. An ostentatious (characterized by vulgar or pretentious display) display of bravery; defiant or swaggering behavior. bravo!! you saved his life from the burning fire, you displayed bravery bravado yea bravo + bravery but maybe no bravo for your ostentatious bravery frank's lastest act of bravado was competing in the bungee jump at the extreme games

Vertigo

n. Dizziness or a tilting, spinning sensation. vertical i go!! like spinning around the vertical axis around and around the vertigo effect i saw tiktok ?? its like zooming in on the person but the background zooms out so it can cause dizziness Children sometimes induce vertigo by spinning around then immediately trying to walk.

philistine

n. One who is indifferent to or disdainful of intellectual values. adj. Smugly ignorant of artistic or intellectual qualities. whoever doesn't know PHILLy cheese steak sandwich is smugly ignorant of TRUE artistic food work, and doesn't care about intellectual values PHILL-istine phyllis teen when phyllis from the office was a teen, she was a cheerleader. she was a philistine; she didnt care much about intellectual values and only focused on being a good cheerleader (sorry phyllis) 1. "It was the philistines on the school board," argued Mr. Winkler, "who cut the music department budget in order to transfer funs to the athletic department." 2. The philistine proposal to close the art museum angered local residents.

anathema

n. Someone or something that is intensely disliked, cursed, or shunned. sounds like an asthma, to someone who has asthma, it's probably intensely disliked by them a-NAH-thema uhhh nahhhh to the theaters. i intensely dislike going to it bc of covid raising taxes was anathema to home owners who believed they were already paying more than their share.

phobia

n. Strong, irrational fear phobia although terrified of snakes, i overcame my phobia by forcing myself to handle them.

advent

n. a coming or arrival oo like an advent calendar and christmas is coming up with the calendar yeahhhh opening the presents every day for the advent calendar, every day is closer and closer to christmas with the advent of the suburban shopping mall, many small shops downtown closed their doors.

epigram

n. a short, witty poem or saying epic-gram, on the epic instagram, people post aesthetic pictures with short witty poems/ saying as their caption yeah your instagram is epic!! you have such witty poems and stuff (i actually follow someone who writes and posts a lot of poems so i could try to remember her) i am reminded of dr. johnson's epigram that a second marriage is "the triumph of hope over experience."

debacle

n. a strong collapse, downfall, or failure. de-back-le, de gives it the negative connotation, they were set BACK from the plan and they failed dey-BAC-kle hey buckle up for this strong downfall A long rise in stock prices ended with the Wall Street Debacle of 1929, which marked the advent of the great depression.

stricture

n. a strong criticism 2. anything that restricts or limits almost like structure, a strong criticism gives you an idea of what you're doing right and wrong and gives you a structure and limits what you should do in ur workplace strict structure is bound to restrict/limit you. like at a gym, a strict structure or routine might limit and criticize your eating habits the president, unable to ignore the strictures of the press, was forced to issue an apology for his remarks. 2. the treaty removes many of the structures hampering free trade between the two countries.

proclivity

n. a strong inclination towards something pro-cliv-ity, theyre pro liv, the olivia's at my scjool are inclined to go by liv pro-cliff activity (like bunjee jumping) they have a strong inclination for pro-cliff activities A proclivity for telling stories accounts for laslo's reputation as a raconteur.

mogul

n. a very powerful or wealthy person; a magnate mo gurl- (nerdy nummies sister) was a very wealthy person because ro made so much money (i'm sure mo made lots of money herself too) unlike a muggle from harry potter, moguls are very powerful or in korean 목을- a very powerful or wealthy person puts necklaces and chains, and wear a fancy robe that comes up to their neck etc the two banking moguls met to discuss a merger that would give them dominance in the New England region.

blashphemy

n. an act or statement that shows disrespect or irreverence toward something considered sacred they BLASTED the inappropriate music during service, emi did something that shows disrespect to something considered sacred Michele did not observe the holy days and was thus accused of blasphemy.

surfeit

n. an overabundant supply; an excess surfet, he was a surfer and he has an over abundant supply of the wax they need for surfboards SIR-fit for that sir/gentleman over there to fit, well going to need an overabundant supply of cloths The surfeit of evidence left the jury little room for doubt as to the suspect's guilt

repercussion

n. an unforeseen or indirect result or effect of an event definitely heard of this word before, if you make the percussion start over(re) you're going to see some results, such as messing up the whole band repercussion last fall's flooding of California farmland will have economic repercussions throughout the country.

revelation

n. something that is made known or revealed, often coming as a surprise revelations in the bible, this chapter is widely known, but the information is coming as a surprise it also kinda sounds like revolution? did you know that the revelation chapter in the bible caused a revolution?? (this was revealed and came as a surprise to me) Whattt I didn't know that!! ms. curran's knowledge of arcane points of property law was a revelation to me.

fabricate

n.1. to make by putting parts together; to construct 2. to invent in order to deceive fabrication n. fabricate the canoes are fabricated from sheet aluminum. 2. an aggrieved former employee fabricated the story that the company was going bankrupt. 3. the rumor that this mayan artifact is a fake is nothing but a fabrication.

domicile

n.ones house or place of residence maybe it's like "dommy style" you could tell that's his home because of his style DOMmy-cile omg yeahhh yours is cute and fun dom's house the governors domicile was an imposing edifice.

undulate

v. 1. To form or move in waves. 2. To have a wavelike appearance or motion. undulation noun. dull ate, they ate very full food, so they got hungry fast then ate fast. if u graph if you would get waves undulate aren't you late? but she was dead asleep so the figure of me asking "aren't you late?" seemed wavy to her 1 The sea undulated beneath the boat, lifting it up and down. 2. The wheat field undulated in the wind. 3. Pilar began to feel ill from driving on the steep undulations of the country road.

relegate

v. 1. To put out of sight or mind; demote (give (someone) a lower rank or less senior position, usually as a punishment.) 2. To assign for a decision or further action. the relevance is outside the gate, i locked it out and it's out of my mind relegate relatives at the gate leaving your relatives at the gate, locked out makes it seem like you're trying to give them a lower rank of importance in the house 1. Wade was mortified when he was relegated to a minor league team. 2. These matters have been relegated to the subcommittee for additional study.

repulse

v. 1. To repel; to drive back. 2. To reject in a cool or distant manner. 3. To disgust repulsive is like DISGUSTING, so you have to drive yourself away from it yeah repulsive, revolting its so gross you drive back from it and reject it 1. The general was disconcerted when his attack on the enemy position was repulsed. 2. Catherine repulsed his invitation with a curt refusal. 3. The unsavory incident concerning the man and his dogs repulsed those who witnessed it.

careen

v. 1. To rush headlong, often with a swerving or lurching motion 2. To cause to lean or tip to one side careena (like karina) ca-LEANED and rushed headlong ka-REEN looks like career, lean to get that career, i gotta lean in and dive in headlong... swearing at the competitors 1. The roller coaster cars careened around the bends.. 2. It's thrilling to sail when strong winds careen the boat.

appease

v. 1. to bring to a state of peace or quiet. 2. To pacify an adversary, often by making concessions. aPEACE i knew the second one, to calm down and by calming them down, there is peace and quiet 1. The principal's reassurances did little to appease our concerns about the school's future. 2. attempts to appease dictators frequently serve only to increase their aggression.

pulverize

v. 1. to crush or grind into dust or powder. 2. to demolish pulver kinda reminds me of like your intestines. When people died, they would pulverize the pulver. paul ver eyes paul versus eyes- a video game where a character named paul has to fight eyeball characters or else they will crush/grind you into powder The limestone was pulverized and then used to make cement. 2. The hurricane pulverized the beachside cabins until they were unrecognizable.

reciprocate

v. 1. to exchange for being kind; to repay reciprocal adj. reciprocity. n. the reciprocal of a fraction is like the opposite of it, to repay and kinda flip the fraction on who helped who you know 1. I thanked them for inviting me and promised to reciprocate by making them dinner in the near future. 2. This was not a case of the unrequited love, but one in which affection was reciprocal. 3. This agreement will establish reciprocity in cultural exchanges between the two countries.

assuage

v. 1. to satisfy 2. to lessen or reduce the intensity of a-sway-age, when the new sway house member said their age, they were satisfied and said, you're in! uh-SWAYge so i was uhh... swaying on the sausage (bc the word looks like sausage) shaped boat. at first it was pretty uncomfortable but the captain of the boat lessened the intensity of the fear level to satisfy his customers. 1. after the tennis match, my friend and I assuaged our thirst at a lemonade stand. 2. a hug is sometimes all it takes to assuage a child's fears.

Purport

v. To give or present the often false impression of being someone or intending something. when making the passport, they didn't want to pay money for the youngest child so they act like she was a cat (purr) they said the port was gonna be an aesthetic purple port... but they gave a false impression it was an ugly purple the woman purports to be a surviving member of the Russian royal family.

usurp

v. To seize and hold power or authority in an illegal or unjust manner. you-surb/p you cant just slurp all my power illegally ! when the wealthy landowners tried to usurp power from the queen, she outmanecered them.

correlate

v. to connect related things; to bring things into proper relation with one another. correlation, n. correlation/ correlate 1. The study correlated the exposure to certain plastics with an increase in cancer cases. 2. The possible correlation between piano playing and mathematical achievements merits further study.

expound

v. to explain in detail; to set forth in order to lose(ex) POUNDS, the fitness trainer explained in detail about what their client had to do EXcuse me?? why are POUNDS of meat missing?? please explain in detail the shipment process. Kareem expounded his religious beliefs while his friends listened intently.

presage

v. to foretell; to warn or indicate in advance, pre-before; sage is a wise person- the sage told them before what they should look out for PREH-sage press age- during the printing press age/era, there was someone who warned Johannes Gutenberg that the printing press would go out of business Dark clouds presage rain.

enamor

v. to inspire with love; to captivate enamEL is part of your tooth, to be inspired to brush your teeth because of someone you love amor-love in spanish in love, your significant other can inspire you with love the director was especially enamored off a fine bronze statue by cellini.

defoliate

v. to strip a plant of leaves, thereby damaging or destroying it exfoliate is similar to this but this is for leaves haha yeah Gypsy moths defoliated many of the trees in the park, leaving bare branches in their wake.