WORDS SEARCHED - PART I

WORDS SEARCHED PART I

1.      Baptism: A Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth

2.      Baptize: sprinkle, immerse, dip, name, christen, cleanse

3.      Sacrament: A formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it

4.      Prima Facie: As it seems at first sight.

a.       A prima facie case of murder.

5.      Dearth: An acute insufficiency; an insufficient quantity or number

a.       Famine, paucity, shortage,

b.      Type of deficiency, demand, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, need, scarceness, scarcity, want

c.       There is a dearth of evidence.

6.      Entwine: Tie or link together; spin, wind or twist together

a.       Entwine the ribbons

b.      Enlace, interlace, intertwine, knit, lace, twine

c.       Type of: conjoin, connect, deform, distort, join, link, and twist

7.      Collude: Act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose.

a.       The two companies colluded to cause the value of the stock to fall

b.      Synonyms: conspire

c.       Type of: act, interact, and move

8.      Savant: Someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field.

a.       Initiate, learned person, pundit

b.      Type of: bookman, intellect, intellectual, scholar, scholarly person, student

9.      Malfeasance: wrongful doing by a public official.

a.       Type of: actus Reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct

10.  Transgress: Act in disregard to laws, rules, contracts or promises; commit a sin; spread over land

11.  Actus Reus: Activity that transgresses moral or civil law.

a.       He denied any actus Reus.

12.  Nipped: press tightly between the fingers; Give a small sharp bite; Sever or remove by pinching; travel rapidly.

a.       Clipped, pinched, snipped, squeezed, tweeted, twinged, and twitched.

b.      Type of: bit, cut, gripped, locomoted, seized with teeth, travelled, went.

13.  Sever: set or keep apart; cut off from a whole

a.       His head was severed/ His head was decapitated.

14.  Ordinance: an authoritative rule; a statue enacted by a city government; the act of conferring holy orders.

a.       Ordination, regulation

b.      Type of: appointment, assignment, decision, designation, enactment, legislative law, prescript, statute

15.  Statute: An act passed by a legislative body.

16.  Stovepipe: Chimney consisting of a metal pipe of large diameter that is used to connect a stove to a flue;

a.       A man’s hat with a tall crown, usually covered with silk or with beaver fur;

b.      Vertical flow of information.

17.  Dire: Fraught with extreme danger, near hopelessness; Causing fear, dread or terror

a.       A dire emergency, dire news

b.      Awful, desperate, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible

18.  Cynical: Believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others.

a.       Abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule, showing contempt for accepted moral standards.

19.  Fraught: marked by distress; a fraught mother-daughter relationship

a.       Filled with or attended with; an incident fraught with danger

20.  Exemplify: Clarify by giving an example of; this compositional style is exemplified by this fugue.

21.  Fugue: Dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to create a new life

22.  Sneer: Express through a scornful smile; Smile contemptuously.

23.  Scorn: Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike.

a.       The professor scorns the students who don’t catch up on immediately.

24.  Inertia: A disposition to remain inactive or inert.

a.       He had to overcome his inertia and get back to work.

25.  Subsidy: A grant paid by the government to an enterprise that benefits the public.

a.       A subsidy for research in artificial intelligence.

26.  Deterrence: A negative motivational influence; a communication that makes you afraid of trying something; the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by installing fear or doubt or anxiety.

a.       Determent, disincentive, intimidation.

b.      Type of: discouragement, hindrance, interference, rational motive.

27.  Grata: A diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent; A person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome

28.  Persona Grata: A diplomat who is acceptable to the government to which he is sent.

29.  Malevolent: Wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; having or exerting a malignant influence.

a.       Failure made him malevolent to those who were successful.

30.  Revels: Unrestrained merrymaking

a.       Take delight in and make the most of; celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engaging in uproarious festivities.

b.      Delights, enjoys, jollifies, rackets revelries, wassails

31.  Racket: A loud and disturbing noise

a.       Illegal enterprise

b.      The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality

c.       A sports implement used to strike a ball

32.  Malignant: Dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumour)

a.       Cancerous.

33.  Revving: Increase the number of rotations per minute.

34.  Exodus: Mass departure of people from a hostile environment

a.       Hegira, hejira.

35.  Per-incuriam: is a Latin phrase meaning ‘through carelessness’. Through negligence; lack of care.

36.  Colloquial: used in ordinary conversation; not formal.

a.       She wrote her letters in colloquial style.

Conversational.