Part 10
greedy
- mean (bad)
- predatory (reportorial)
- rapacious (greedy)
- voracious (greedy)
- voraciousness (greediness)
jealousy
- covet (desire)
- ennui (dissatisfaction)
dirty
- frowzy (untidy)
- murky(dirty)
- opaque(cloudy)
- putrid (stinking)
- scutwork (dirty work)
teacher / guide
- Adonis (striking youth)
- guru (hindu or sikh religious teacher)
- imam (religious leader)
- shaman (religious specialist)
- docent (guide)
- mentor(guide)
- regime (rule)
- lodestar (guiding star)
knowledge / intelligent
- acumen (wisdom)
- adage (wise saying )
- apprehension (understanding)
- incisive (intelligent)
- judicious (wise)
- ken (knowledge)
- nuance (slight difference)
- sagacity (wisdom)
- perspicacious (wise)
- wunderkind (genius)
lecture / speech
- discourse (speech)
- harangue (long lecture )
- jeremiad (long sad complaint)
- peroration (speech)
prevention
- militate (prevent)
- preclude (prevent)
- regnant (controlling)
- preemptive (preventive)
increase
- accrue (accumulate)
- ameliorate (enhance)
- amenities (comforts)
- enhance (increase)
- crescendo (a gradual increase)
- stagflation (increase in prices)
top point / juncture / low point
- tipping point (climax)
- transcend (top)
- vertex (top)
- juncture (a particular point moment)
- nadir (lowest point)
- menial (lowly)
- relegate (downgrade)
wine words
- claret (red wine)
- cuvee (a single batch of wine)
- sec (tasteless champagne)
- vintner (somebody who sells wine)
walk
- ambulatory (adapted for walking)
- divagate (stray)
- mosey (ambell)
- sidle (sneak)
Belonging to people
- actuary (accountant)
- aboriginal (native)
- arbiter (a person who settles disputes)
- hawk (a war like person)
- dark horse (winner)
- innocuous (harmless)
- kahuna (important person)
acceptance
- acquiesce (to accept without arguing)
- assimilate (make an idea acceptable)
- assume (accept that something is true)
- condone (to accept something that is morally bad)
- premise(assumptions)
- supposition (idea)
imaginative
- afflatus (strong creative impulse)
- chimerical (fabulous)
- el dorado (an imaginary place of great wealth)
- figment (fancy)
- mesmerize (captivate)
throwing
- cast (act of throwing something)
- defenestration (act of throwing)
- jettison (throw out)
- precipitate (throw)
- prune (trim)
Credits : Taniya Sadia
Is these parts contain all the vocab words... ???
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