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Word of the Day 
WOD

Quiz 1 Thursday March 2016

Monday Feb 6, nascent - in the process of being born or coming into existence

Tuesday Feb 7, confluence - a gathering together

Wednesday Feb 8, esoteric - understood by only a select few

Thursday Feb,  9 grandiloquence - lofty, pompous language

Friday Feb 10, potable - suitable for drinking

Monday Feb 13, efficacious - effective

Tuesday Feb 14, privation - lacking basic necessities

Wednesday Feb 15, inextricable - hopelessly tangled or entangled

Thursday Feb 16, duplicity - crafty dishonesty

Friday Feb 17,  torrid - giving off intense heat, passionate

Tuesday Feb 21,  fabricate - to make up, invent

Wednesday Feb 22, tantamount - equivalent in value or significance

Thursday Feb 23, inimical -  hostile, enemylike

Friday Feb 24, propitious - favorable

Monday Feb 27, ostracism - exclusion from a group

Tuesday Feb 28, pejorative - derogatory, uncomplimentary

Wednesday Mar 1, swarthy - of dark color or complexion

Word of the Day 
WOD
Quiz 2: April 18

Thursday Mar 2 ruminate to contemplate, reflect

Friday Mar 3 stoic unaffected by passion or feeling

Monday Mar 6 despondent feeling depressed, discouraged, hopeless 

Tuesday Mar 7 augment to add to, expand

Wednesday Mar 8 tremulous fearful

Thursday Mar 9 temerity audacity, recklessness

Friday Mar 10 fetid having a foul odor

Monday Mar 20 noxious harmful, unwholesome

Tuesday Mar 21 putrid rotten, foul

Wednesday Mar 22 assuage to ease, pacify

Thursday Mar 23 tractable easily controlled

Friday Mar 24 pernicious extremely destructive or harmful

Monday Mar 27 amenable willing, compliant

Tuesday Mar 28 allay to soothe, ease

Wednesday Mar 29 mercurial characterized by rapid change or temperamentality

Thursday Mar 30 amorphous without definite shape or type

Friday Mar 31 protean able to change shape; displaying great variety

Monday Apr 3 intractable difficult to manipulate, unmanageable

Tuesday Apr 4 transmute to change or alter in form

Wednesday Apr 5 ascetic practicing restraint as a means of self-discipline, usually religious

Thursday Apr 6 dubious doubtful, or uncertain quality

Monday Apr 10 equanimity composure

Tuesday Apr 11 frenetic frenzied, hectic, frantic

Wednesday Apr 12 feral wild, savage
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Thursday Apr 13 undulate to move in waves

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