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Date: 28/12/2021

Article 2

Article type: Essays & Opinions

Total Pages=15

Wordlist-Day2= 1-5 pages

Title:  Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man

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WORDS LIST
Word	Meaning	Sentence
Lure	provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; bait, hook, entice, tempt	Even the lure of dessert wasn’t enough to overcome Laleh’s sudden and inexplicable shyness.
Pangs	A sudden sharp feeling, mental pain or distress; stab, twinge	I feel a pang of excitement, then remorse, and then nausea.
Conscience	built-in sense of what’s right and what’s wrong; moral sense, scruples, sense of right and wrong.	Through a completely unanticipated event, my moral conscience became clear.
Degenerate	Grow worse; deteriorate, devolve, drop, Degraded	What’s remarkable is that, despite this degeneration, the likeness is perfectly sustained.
Elicit	Call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses), educe, draw out Same sound but different meaning word= illicit–>Illegal	Each name elicited a tick on a list and a brief mnemonic stare from the teacher.
Rambling	Spreading out in different directions; digressive, meandering, Sprawling, excursive, wandering, indirect, discursive	David, quiet David, is full of long, drawn-out, rambling opinions about social studies.
Devolve	To devolve is to get worse instead of better; pass on or delegate to another	Dad interrupted us before we could devolve into an argument.
Tirade	A speech of violent denunciation; Philippic, broadside	His mother had interrupted his father’s tirade—something she did often, but never with such vehemence.
Imperative	When something absolutely has to be done and cannot be put off, use the adjective imperative; requiring attention or action	It was imperative that everything be relocated to a safe distance before the bio-bomb went in.
Exalt	Praise, glorify, or honour, heighten or intensify	Burgundy is now the world’s most exalted wine region, and you rarely find good bottles in this price range.
Hinge	A joint that holds two parts together so that one can swing relative to the other	The customer flicked a hand toward the Owner’s legs, exposed beneath the hinged section of the countertop.
Seemingly	From appearances alone, ostensibly, apparently	The child is seemingly healthy but the doctor is concerned
Manifested	Apparent, evident, patent, plain, resounding, unmistakable	The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication
Impoverishment	Without money, having no money, poverty, immiserate	The country descended into financial chaos and impoverishment as the crisis unfolded in late 2019.
Commiserate	Feel or express sympathy or compassion; sympathize	I can, however, commiserate with them on the situations they were forced to endure.
Rational	Based on reasoning, related to the use of the mind, logical	There was no rational explanation for how I was alive at this moment.
Agitator	Troublemaker, foment, stir up	To downplay accusations of being an outside agitator, she ran her operation out of her hotel room, offering direction to state and local suffragists.
Stumbling	Walk unsteadily, make an error	She stumbled and revealed the name
Haunted	Obsessed, preoccupied, taken up	The confused, frightened look on Mrs. Wheeler’s face that night still haunted me.
Bourgeois	Belonging to the middle class	One day, however, it will appear as a deed greater than the most victorious wars of our present bourgeois era.
Mediocrity	Ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding	You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.
vengeful	Revengeful, vindictive	I will admit I thought dark, vengeful thoughts that night.
Monomania	A mania restricted to one thing or idea; possession	He needed a break, he said, from the monomania of Hollywood.
Eschew	Avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of; shun	The Order is eschewing any form of transport that is controlled or regulated by the Ministry; they mistrust everything to do with the place.
Forfeit	Something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty; confiscated, forfeited	I felt I had forfeited her sympathy by my refusal to go down.
Scathing	Marked by harshly abusive criticism; Vituperative	He stood at the edge of the pit, the crowd surging around him, hissing, mocking, their words scathing and dry as coals.
Zealot	A fervent and even militant proponent of something; drumbeater, partisan	Religious zealots and religious dissenters were making noise while members of the Church of England and Unitarians like the Darwins also quietly questioned their faith.
Relegate	Pass on, refer to other people, assign to a lower position	Black people found themselves yet again powerless and relegated to convict leasing camps that were, in many ways, worse than slavery.
Glitter	The quality of shining with a bright reflected light; coruscation, sparkle	The road ahead of them was empty and the ice crystals on the asphalt glittered like diamonds in the morning sun.
Stifling	Characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; oppressive	In the summer, the cars were stiflingly hot because none were air-conditioned.
Decried	Express strong disapproval of;  condemn, excoriate, objurgate, reprobate	We decry the racism in South Africa
Flinch	Drawback, as with fear or pain,	I flinched back from the resentment in his voice.
Subsumption	incorporating something under a more general category; minor premise	By the subsumption or gathering up of several laws under one which amounts to the sum of them all, and which is the recognition of the same sequence in different sets of instances.
Tenuous	lacking substance or significance; flimsy, fragile, slight, thin	My relationship with God at this point was, at best, tenuous.
Affinity	A natural attraction or feeling of kinship	He seemed to have an affinity for plants.
Ghastly	Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick	The image of Clerval was forever before me, ghastly and murdered.
Mysticism	Obscure or irrational thought	He had no mysticism about turtles although he had gone in turtle boats for many years.
Barbarism	A brutal barbarous savage act	Amid such barbarism, is there any respite to allow us to ponder what the violence means and says about how we live?
Eradicate	Destroy completely, as if down to the roots; exterminate, extirpate, root out, uproot, decimate, annihilate	Television had shrunk the world and had in the process become a great weapon for eradicating ignorance and promoting democracy.
Encroachment	Any entry into an area not previously occupied; intrusion, invasion, trespass	In 1774 the Shawnee responded to these encroachments by raiding squatter settlements and expelling land surveyors.
Dire	Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless; desperate	He flicked his eyes to Otto, whose face was pinched with concern, but not a dire concern.
Resuscitate	Cause to regain consciousness; revive, vivify	She would find it increasingly exhausting to conjure up, to dust off, to resuscitate once again what was long dead.
Eminent	Standing above others in quality or position; superior, distinguished	Even its most eminent evangelisers find it difficult to explain to the satisfaction of enquirers.
Retreat	Move back; retrograde, drawback	When a strong enemy threatened an agricultural village, retreat meant giving up fields, houses and granaries.
Egalitarian	Favoring social equality; Classless	Hundreds of years later, America is still not an egalitarian democracy.
Aristocratic	Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy, powerful class; gentry	She was about seventy, a tiny, aristocratic– looking woman.
Emphatically	In a forceful manner; with emphasis	I said emphatically, shaking my head vigorously so that there could be no possible further misunderstanding.
Irony	Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs	It was very hard to detect any expressive tones in his voice, whether of irony or anger, because it was so deep and so flat.
Eccentric	conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; odd, bizarre	People really do become eccentric when they become rich.

 

 

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