1) Breach
n., v.
a lapse, gap or break, as in a fortress wall. To break or break through. ex: Unfortunately, the club members never forgot his breach of etiquette.
2) Dearth
n
lack, scarcity: "The prosecutor complained about the dearth of concrete evidence against the suspect."
3) depredation
n.
the act of preying upon or plundering: "The depredations of the invaders demoralized the population."
4) engender
v.
to give rise to, to propagate, to cause: "His slip of the toungue engendered much laughter."
5) incorrigible
adj
not capable of being corrected: "The school board finally decided the James was incorrigible and expelled him from school."
6) Indelible
adj.
permanent; unerasable; strong: "The Queen made an indelible impression on her subjects."
7) Infer
v.
to deduce: "New genetic evidence led some zoologists to infer that the red wolf is actually a hybrid of the coyote and the gray wolf."
8) ingenious
adj
clever: "She developed an ingenious method for testing her hypothesis."(n: ingenuity)
9) intransigent
adj.
stubborn; immovable; unwilling to change: "She was so intransigent we finally gave up trying to convince her." (n: intransigence)
10) lugubrious
adj
weighty, mournful, or gloomy, especially to an excessive degree: "Jake's lugubrious monologues depressed his friends
11) misanthrope
n.
one who hates people: "He was a true misanthrope and hated even himself."
12) mitigate
v.
to make less forceful; to become more moderate; to make less harsh or undesirable: "He was trying to mitigate the damage he had done."
noisome
adj.
harmful, offensive, destructive: "The noisome odor of the dump carried for miles."
13) Placate
v.
to calm or reduce anger by making concessions: "The professor tried to placate his students by postponing the exam."
14) precipitate
v., n
to fall; to fall downward suddenly and dramatically; to bring about or hasten the occurrence of something: "
15) prodigal
adj.
rashly wasteful: "Americans' prodigal devotion to the automobile is unique."
16) propitiate
v.
to conciliate; to appease: "They made sacrifices to propitiate angry gods."
17) specious
adj.
seemingly true but really false; deceptively convincing or attractive: "Her argument, though specious, was readily accepted by many."
18) superficial
adj.
only covering the surface: "A superficial treatment of the topic was all they wanted."
19) tractable
adj.
ability to be easily managed or controlled: "Her mother wished she were more tractable."
20) verbose
adj.
wordy: "The instructor asked her verbose student to make her paper more concise."
21) Vex
v.
to annoy; to bother; to perplex; to puzzle; to debate at length: "
22) pedantic
adj
showing a narrow concern for rules or formal book learning; making an excessive display of one's own learning: "We quickly tired of his pedantic conversation."
23) pragmatic
adj.
concerned with facts; practical, as opposed to highly principled or traditional: "His pragmatic approach often offended idealists."
24) precursor
n.
something (or someone) that precedes another: "The assassination of the Archduke was a precursor to the war."
25) prevaricate
v.
to stray away from or evade the truth: "When we asked him what his intentions were, he prevaricated."
