Vocabulary List # privy – secretly aware; in the know (“privy to”) 702. levity – lightness (physically); lack of seriousness in conduct 703. plagiaristic – stealing others’ work and calling it one’s own plagiarism 704. abortive – not successful; not carried to completion 705. epigram – a concise witty saying 706. fractiousness – irritability; tending to be cross or peevish 707. paternal – pertaining to father 708. claret – a deep red Bordeaux wine 709. extemporize – to improvise; to do or utter without previous preparation 710. rotogravure – a process of printing pictures from etched cylindrical plates

Vocabulary List # wag – a sporting wit or joker; a “wise guy” 712. crepe-de-chine – a black crepe used for mourning, sometimes made of heavy silk 713. pessimist – one who consistently believes the worst or looks at the dark side of things 714. ectoplasm – external layer of protoplasm in a cell; an emanation from a medium which causes objects at a distance to move 715. mincing – speaking or moving with affected daintiness 716. oculist – a specialist in eye diseases 717. homogeneity – a state of being all of one type 718. hors d’ oeuvre – a before dinner snack 719. vacuous – empty, stupid insane 720. vinous – pertaining to wine; given to drinking wine

Vocabulary List # elicit – to draw out or to draw forth; to evoke 722. olfactory – pertaining to the sense of smell 723. beaux (pl of beau) – boyfriends 724. feudal – pertaining to the system of homage by vassal to lord in the Middle Ages 725. nebulous – not clear, vague 726. spectroscopic – pertaining to spectrums produced by special machines 727. obstetrical – pertaining to the art of assisting women in delivering babies 728. distraught – beset with mental conflict; crazed; kind of disturbed 729. demoniac – devilish; pertaining to demons 730. silhouette – a shadow

Vocabulary List # insidious – full of plots; wily, sly, treacherous 732. meretricious – alluring by false show; gaudy; deceitfully ornamental 733. conceit – a concept or thought; a notion (a bit archaic) 734. turgid – inflated, swollen; pompous; vainly o0stentatious; bonbastic 735. euphemism – a nice way of saying something unpleasant 736. dilatory – characterized by procrastination; given to delay; slow; tardy 737. caravansary – a large hotel or inn 738. libertine – a person loose in morals; free and free- thinking 739. prig – an irritatingly self-sufficient or punctilious person 740. presumptuous –overbold; taking too much for granted

Vocabulary List # grail – a cup; the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper 742. benediction – a blessing 743. fortuitous – happening by chance or accident 744. amorphous – having no definite shape or form 745. protégé – one under the protection or tutorship or another 746. adventitious – not inherent but coming about accidentally; not essentially inherent 747. pasquinade – a lampoon posted in a public place 748. addenda – a list of things 749. transitory – fleeting, not long-last; transient; ephemeral 750. pander – to minister to the evil passions of another

Vocabulary List # aesthetic – pertaining to art or beauty 752. orgiastic – pertaining to wild celebrations or orgies 753. anarchist – one who advocates the overthrow of all government 754. sultry – hot and muggy; sweltering 755. banshee – a female spirit wailing to announce someone’s death 756. grippe – a cold or flu 757. premonition – a feeling that something bad will happen; a foreboding 758. pince-nez – glasses that clip onto the nose 759. brothel – a house of ill-repute 760. trull – a prostitute or trollop

Vocabulary List # trollop – a sexually promiscuous woman; a slattern 762. beatitude – a state of blessedness 763. fresco – painting done in plaster on a wall 764. heinous – extremely evil; hateful; hatefully bad; outrageously offensive 765. protuberance – a bulge; something that sticks out 766. synchronous – occurring simultaneously 767. lichens – organisms, composed of a type of fungus or algae, growing on a rock or bark 768. phantasmagoria – a succession of weird scenes in one’s imagination; a kind of hallucination 769. exhalation – a breathing out 770. titillation – a tickling; a process of exciting pleasurably

Vocabulary List # patriarchal – pertaining to a father leader or a large family or tribe 772. involute – involved or intricate; curling in on itself like a shell 773. inure – to get used to something hard or painful; to harden 774. epitome – the highest example of 775. quondam – at one time formerly 776. corroborate – to back up with evidence 777. sloth – extreme laziness 778. sycophant – a cringing flatterer; a “kiss up” 779. piebald – mottled; of different colors especially white or black (like a horse or other animal) 780. lineaments – outlines, features or contour of a body or face

Vocabulary List # contingency – a possibility, a possible occurrence 782. oleograph – a kind of lithograph that resembles an oil painting 783. caricature – a comic exaggeration 784. mercurial – inconstant; unstable, volatile; unpredictable 785. luminous – shining; bright, intelligent, intelligible 786. alliteration – a repetition of consonant sounds (in a somer seson when swift was the sonne) 787. potentate – a monarch wielding great power 788. intangible – unable to be touched 789. flotsam – floating wreckage 790. chide (chidden) – to scold

Vocabulary List # filigree – delicate lace-like ornamental work or interwoven gold or silver wire 792. table d’ hote – a meal for which one pays a single price (opp. of a la carte) 793. cordial – a liqueur; a very sweet alcoholic beverage 794. extravasate – to force out of the proper vessel (e.g. blood); to erupt in liquid from a vent (e.g. lava) 795. chromatic – pertaining to color; pertaining to the tones of a certain scale 796. convexity – a curving outward 797. tempestuous – stormy; turbulent 798. ghoul – a person who robs graves and feeds on corpses 799. sublimate – to redirect a primitive emotion to a socially acceptable end 800. girth – circumference; the distance around