Wordly Wise 3000 Unit 11-14

(n) 1. A departure from the norm or what is considered right, natural, or normal; a flaw or defect.

2. The failure of a mirror or lens to reproduce an image in focus.

• aberration

• cataclysm

• gourmet

• hybrid

(adj) Grown old; out-of-date.

• antiquated

• agrarian

• culinary

• grandiloquent

(adj) 1. Of or relating to the skies or heavens.

2. Heavenly, divine; of the finest or highest kind.

• celestial

• plebeian

• temperate

• culpable

(n) The state of being certain of the truth or rightness of something.

• certitude

• panacea

• scourge

• stalemate

(v) To distribute something or pay out money, especially from a public or other fund.

• disburse

• burgeon

• denigrate

• gibe

(n) 1. A vast cluster of stars and other matter, billions of which make up the known universe.

2. A group of brilliant or notable people or things.

• galaxy

• aftermath

• aphorism

• catharsis

(adj) Hard to manage, tame, or control; stubborn; not easily cured.

• intractable

• culpable

• diabolical

• innocuous

(n) 1. A joining or coming together; the place where such a connection occurs.

2. A point in time made critical by the timing of the circumstances.

• juncture

• partisan

• posterity

• cohort

(v) To place side by side.

• juxtapose

• belie

• eradicate

• flout

(n) 1. A large and violent whirlpool or something resembling a whirlpool.

2. A place or state of great turmoil or confusion.

• maelstrom

• dilemma

• insurrection

• pretext