Jingoist Republicans often gerrymander during the halcyon quiescence between elections.
BRING IT.
GRE vocab, part one:
ABASE:
(v) to lower, degrade, humiliate
(n) abasement
Anna refused to abase herself by cleaning the basement walls with a toothbrush.
BAROQUE:
(adj) detailed, ornate
Broke builders could never afford nor comprehend the large scale of baroque architecture.
CALUMNY:
(n) slander, malicious misrepresentation
Calamity Jane often confronted the jealous calumny of sexist cowboys who were jealous of her sharp-shooter skills.
DEBAUCH:
(v) corrupt, seduce from virtue
(n) debauchery
Although it could be considered calumny, one could argue that Monica Lewinsky debauched Clinton's presidential career.
College housing co-ops were often households of good-natured debauchery, especially in the quiescence between quarters.
ECCLESIASTIC:
(adj) pertaining to churches
Father John donned his ecclesiastic garb as he prepared to deliver his sermon.
-clesia - igleisa - church
FATUOUS:
(adj) inane, foolish
Jane often made fatuous remarks when she was infatuated with someone new.
GAINSAY:
(v) to deny
Frank was too earnest to gainsay the evidence against the company.
You never gain anything by saying an untruth.
GERRYMANDER:
(v) to redistrict a region in an effort to gain more votes
California senators have been known to gerrymander districts in the shapes of salamanders in an attempt to divvy up likely voters.
Gerry demands land by gerrymandering.
HALCYON
(adj) peaceful, calm
Citizens worried less about wiretapping in the halcyon days before the Patriot Act.
IMMOLATE
(adj) to offer as a sacrifice
God tested Isaac's love for him by asking him to immolate his first born son.
I'm mollifying you with my forsaken dinner plate.
JINGOIST
(n) extremely aggresive, militant patriot; a warlike chauvinist
(n) jingoism: offensive nationalism
Right-wing radical Rush Limbaugh is a jingoist who spouts extremist, completely unfounded assumptions about the progressive, secular world.
A jingoist is an egoist with a militant jingle.
LEGERDEMAIN
(n) sleight of hand
Miguel Puga impressed his audience at the Magic Theatre with his impressive legerdemain.
leger - ligero (light) main - mano (hand)
MANUMIT
(v) to free from bondage, liberate
Abolitionists aimed to manumit the slaves of colonial America.
Mano - hand mit - transmit; hand over
NUGATORY
(adj) futile, worthless
The plaintiff's claims were nugatory without a solid backing of hard evidence.
negate - a- story; useless
OBSEQUIUOUS:
(adj) sycophantic, slavishly attentive
Olivia was an obsequious intern at the Washington Post, watching the editor's every move like a puppy hoping for table crumbs.
PASTICHE:
(n) imitation of a musical or literary style
Mrs. Levine gave her class two options for the final project: they could either write a comparative analysis of two Argentinian writers, or they could write short stories in pastiche of Jorge Luis Borges' "Ficciones."
past - echo
QUIESCENT:
(adj) temporarily quiet, inactive
(n) quiescence - temporary stillness
San Francisco's Mission District is only quiescent in the period after the restaurants have closed and before the bars open.
quiet - for a moment
RECONDITE:
(adj) abstruse, secret, profound
The German girl stole recondite books from the main square just before the infamous book burning of 1939 took place.
-cond; esconder (to hide)
SPECIOUS:
(adj) reasonable yet innacurate; intentionally misleading
Greg's great flaw was his specious judgment that just because Michelle agreed to spend the night, she necessarily wanted to jump his bones.
spec - speculation, -ious - full of (full of speculations)
TORPOR:
(n) lethargy, laziness
(adj) torpid: lazy
Trogdor the Burninator gave into late-afternoon torpor and fell asleep on the front porch.
GRE vocab, part one:
ABASE:
(v) to lower, degrade, humiliate
(n) abasement
Anna refused to abase herself by cleaning the basement walls with a toothbrush.
BAROQUE:
(adj) detailed, ornate
Broke builders could never afford nor comprehend the large scale of baroque architecture.
CALUMNY:
(n) slander, malicious misrepresentation
Calamity Jane often confronted the jealous calumny of sexist cowboys who were jealous of her sharp-shooter skills.
DEBAUCH:
(v) corrupt, seduce from virtue
(n) debauchery
Although it could be considered calumny, one could argue that Monica Lewinsky debauched Clinton's presidential career.
College housing co-ops were often households of good-natured debauchery, especially in the quiescence between quarters.
ECCLESIASTIC:
(adj) pertaining to churches
Father John donned his ecclesiastic garb as he prepared to deliver his sermon.
-clesia - igleisa - church
FATUOUS:
(adj) inane, foolish
Jane often made fatuous remarks when she was infatuated with someone new.
GAINSAY:
(v) to deny
Frank was too earnest to gainsay the evidence against the company.
You never gain anything by saying an untruth.
GERRYMANDER:
(v) to redistrict a region in an effort to gain more votes
California senators have been known to gerrymander districts in the shapes of salamanders in an attempt to divvy up likely voters.
Gerry demands land by gerrymandering.
HALCYON
(adj) peaceful, calm
Citizens worried less about wiretapping in the halcyon days before the Patriot Act.
IMMOLATE
(adj) to offer as a sacrifice
God tested Isaac's love for him by asking him to immolate his first born son.
I'm mollifying you with my forsaken dinner plate.
JINGOIST
(n) extremely aggresive, militant patriot; a warlike chauvinist
(n) jingoism: offensive nationalism
Right-wing radical Rush Limbaugh is a jingoist who spouts extremist, completely unfounded assumptions about the progressive, secular world.
A jingoist is an egoist with a militant jingle.
LEGERDEMAIN
(n) sleight of hand
Miguel Puga impressed his audience at the Magic Theatre with his impressive legerdemain.
leger - ligero (light) main - mano (hand)
MANUMIT
(v) to free from bondage, liberate
Abolitionists aimed to manumit the slaves of colonial America.
Mano - hand mit - transmit; hand over
NUGATORY
(adj) futile, worthless
The plaintiff's claims were nugatory without a solid backing of hard evidence.
negate - a- story; useless
OBSEQUIUOUS:
(adj) sycophantic, slavishly attentive
Olivia was an obsequious intern at the Washington Post, watching the editor's every move like a puppy hoping for table crumbs.
PASTICHE:
(n) imitation of a musical or literary style
Mrs. Levine gave her class two options for the final project: they could either write a comparative analysis of two Argentinian writers, or they could write short stories in pastiche of Jorge Luis Borges' "Ficciones."
past - echo
QUIESCENT:
(adj) temporarily quiet, inactive
(n) quiescence - temporary stillness
San Francisco's Mission District is only quiescent in the period after the restaurants have closed and before the bars open.
quiet - for a moment
RECONDITE:
(adj) abstruse, secret, profound
The German girl stole recondite books from the main square just before the infamous book burning of 1939 took place.
-cond; esconder (to hide)
SPECIOUS:
(adj) reasonable yet innacurate; intentionally misleading
Greg's great flaw was his specious judgment that just because Michelle agreed to spend the night, she necessarily wanted to jump his bones.
spec - speculation, -ious - full of (full of speculations)
TORPOR:
(n) lethargy, laziness
(adj) torpid: lazy
Trogdor the Burninator gave into late-afternoon torpor and fell asleep on the front porch.