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1) abjure (verb): to renounce under oath; foreswear; to recant or give up 2) abrogate (verb): to abolish or do away with; annul, especially by authority 3) belie (verb): to picture falsely; misrepresent; to show to be false; contradict 4) bellicose (adj.): warlike in manner or temperament; pugnaciou...

1) abjure (verb): to renounce under oath; foreswear; to recant or give up 2) abrogate (verb): to abolish or do away with; annul, especially by authority 3) belie (verb): to picture falsely; misrepresent; to show to be false; contradict 4) bellicose (adj.): warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious 5) implacable (adj.): not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable 6) churlish (adj.): having a bad disposition; difficult to work with 7) deciduous (adj.): shed or lost at the end of a growth season 8) deleterious (adj.): having a harmful effect; injurious 9) enervate (verb): to weaken or destroy strength or vitality; to deplete strength 10) enfranchise (verb): to endow with rights of citizenship, esp. the right to vote 11) facetious (adj.) playfully jocular; humorous 12) fatuous (adj.): vacuously, smugly and unconsciously foolish; delusive 13) promulgate (verb): to declare, publish, or proclaim (e.g. a law) 14) gauche (adj.): lacking social polish; tactless 15) hegemony (noun): predominant influence of a state, region, or group over others 16) bifurcation (noun): the division of something into two branches or parts 17) impeach (verb): to make an accusation against; to challenge the validity of; to try to discredit 18) incognito (adj.): with one’s identity disguised, or concealed 19) lugubrious (adj.): mournful, dismal or gloomy, esp. to a ludicrous degree 20) metamorphosis (noun): a transformation in character, condition, or function 21) invective (noun): scorn or insulting expression; violent denunciation 22) nihilism (noun): philosophy that rejects all morals, values, institutions or beliefs 23) obsequious (adj.): full of or demonstrating servile compliance; fawning 24) oligarchy (noun): government by a few, esp. a faction or families 25) parabola (noun): a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone and plane parallel to an element of the curve 26) paradigm (noun): a pattern or model 27) quasar (noun): an extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times greater than our entire galaxy 28) quotidian (adj.): recurring daily; commonplace 29) recapitulate (verb): to repeat in concise form 30) reciprocal (adj.): interchanged, given, or owed to each other