91-100 Flashcards
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To seize and hold (the power or rights of another, for example) by force without legal authority
Usurp
Characterized by affected, exaggerated or insincere earnestness
Having the quality or character of oil or ointments; slippery
Unctuous
Lacking intelligent; stupid
Devoid of substance or meaning; inane
Devoid of expression; vacant
Vacuous
Forceful or intense in expression, emotion, or conviction; fervid
Vehement
A spiral motion of fluid, especially a whirling mass of water or air that sucks everything near it towards its center
Vortex
To separate the chaff from grain by means of a current of air
To blow chaff off or away
Winnow
A past tense and participle of work
Wrought
A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples
Xenophobe
An attendant, servant, or lesser official in a royal or noble household
Yeoman
A temple tower of the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians having the form of a Terranced pyramid with successively reading stories
Ziggurat
