Educational

obviate

[ob-vee-eyt]

to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary

remunerative

[ri-myoo-ner-uh-tiv]

affording remuneration; profitable

convey

[kuhn-vey]

to communicate; impart; make known

malapropism

[mal-uh-prop-iz-uhm]

an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound

risible

[riz-uh-buhl]

causing or capable of causing laughter; laughable; ludicrous

synecdoche

[si-nek-duh-kee]

a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in Texas won by six runs (meaning “Texas's baseball team”)

mammonism

[mam-uh-niz-uhm]

the greedy pursuit of riches

commodious

[kuh-moh-dee-uhs]

spacious and convenient; roomy

precarious

[pri-kair-ee-uhs]

dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; insecure

elide

[ih-lahyd]

to suppress or omit; ignore or pass over

tergiversate

[tur-ji-ver-seyt]

to turn renegade

strident

[strahyd-nt]

making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking

stentorian

[sten-tawr-ee-uhn]

very loud or powerful in sound

zeitgeber

[tsahyt-gey-ber]

an environmental cue, as the length of daylight or the degree of temperature, that helps to regulate the cycles of an organism's biological clock

viscous

[vis-kuhs]

of a glutinous nature or consistency; sticky; thick; adhesive

peristyle

[per-uh-stahyl]

a colonnade surrounding a building or an open space

shear

[sheer]

to cut something; to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument

mendacious

[men-dey-shuhs]

telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; untruthful

dissemble

[dih-sem-buhl]

to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of

diatribe

[dahy-uh-trahyb]

a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism

inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like

repine

[ri-pahyn]

to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain

abgesang

[ab-guh-zong]

the concluding section in musical and poetic bar form

gloaming

[gloh-ming]

twilight; dusk