STORY OF MY LIFE: October 2009

Deduced page 1 –verb

1. to derive as a conclusion from something known or assumed; infer: From the evidence the detective deduced that the gardener had done it.
2. to trace the derivation of; trace the course of: to deduce one's lineage.

Incompetent page 3–adjective

1. not competent; lacking qualification or ability; incapable: an incompetent candidate.
2. characterized by or showing incompetence: His incompetent acting ruined the play.
3. Law. a. being unable or legally unqualified to perform specified acts or to be held legally responsible for such acts.
b. inadmissible, as evidence.

–noun 4. an incompetent person; a mentally deficient person.
5. Law. a person lacking power to act with legal effectiveness.

Ingratitude page 3 –noun

the state of being ungrateful; unthankfulness.

Acquainted page 4–adjective

1. having personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.; informed (usually fol. by with): to be acquainted with law.
2. brought into social contact; made familiar: people acquainted through mutual friends.

Ferocious page 4 –adjective

1. savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
2. extreme or intense: a ferocious thirst.

Imperative page 5 –adjective

1. absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable: It is imperative that we leave.
2. of the nature of or expressing a command; commanding.
3. Grammar. noting or pertaining to the mood of the verb used in commands, requests, etc., as in Listen! Go! Compare indicative (def. 2), subjunctive (def. 1).

–noun 4. a command.
5. something that demands attention or action; an unavoidable obligation or requirement; necessity: It is an imperative that we help defend friendly nations.
6. Grammar. a. the imperative mood.
b. a verb in this mood.

7. an obligatory statement, principle, or the like.

Denomination Page 5 –noun

1. a religious group, usually including many local churches, often larger than a sect: the Lutheran denomination.
2. one of the grades or degrees in a series of designations of quantity, value, measure, weight, etc.: He paid $500 in bills of small denomination.
3. a name or designation, esp. one for a class of things.
4. a class or kind of persons or things distinguished by a specific name.
5. the act of naming or designating a person or things

Discreetly page 9–adjective

1. judicious in one's conduct or speech, esp. with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect.
2. showing prudence and circumspection; decorous: a discreet silence.
3. modestly unobtrusive; unostentatious: a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace.

Trimester page 10- noun

1. a term or period of three months.
2. one of the three approximately equal terms into which the year is divided by some colleges, schools, etc.

Bearable page 14- adjective

–adjective capable of being endured or tolerated; endurable

Solitude page 19- noun

1. the state of being or living alone; seclusion: to enjoy one's solitude.
2. remoteness from habitations, as of a place; absence of human activity: the solitude of the mountains.
3. a lonely, unfrequented place: a solitude in the mountains

Perennial page 19- adjective

1. lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring: her perennial beauty.
2. (of plants) having a life cycle lasting more than two years.
3. lasting or continuing throughout the entire year, as a stream.
4. perpetual; everlasting; continuing; recurrent.

–noun 5. a perennial plant: Daffodils and tulips are perennials.
6. something that is continuing or recurrent.

Liberated page 21- verb

1. to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
2. to free (a nation or area) from control by a foreign or oppressive government.
3. to free (a group or individual) from social or economic constraints or discrimination,esp. arising from traditional role expectations or bias.4. to disengage; set free from combination, as a gas.
5. Slang. to steal or take over illegally: The soldiers liberated a consignment of cigarettes.

Emancipated page 21- adjective

1. not constrained or restricted by custom, tradition, superstition, etc.: a modern, emancipated woman.
2. freed, as from slavery or bondage.

Insolent page 24- adjective

1. boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinent; insulting: an insolent reply.
noun 2. an insolent person.

Extremists page 24- noun

1. a person who goes to extremes, esp. in political matters.
2. a supporter or advocate of extreme doctrines or practices.
adjective 3. belonging or pertaining to extremists.

Volition page 25- noun

1. the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
2. a choice or decision made by the will.
3. the power of willing; will.

Indignant page 26- adjective

1. feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base: indignant remarks; an indignant expression on his face.

Discreet page 27- adjective

Nostalgia page 27- noun

1. a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.
2. something that elicits or displays nostalgia.

Contraceptives page 28- adjective

1. tending or serving to prevent conception or impregnation.
2. pertaining to contraception.

–noun 3. a contraceptive device, drug, foam, etc.

Platonic page 29- adjective

1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Plato or his doctrines: the Platonic philosophy of ideal forms.
2. pertaining to, involving, or characterized by Platonic love as a striving toward love of spiritual or ideal beauty.
3. (usually lowercase) purely spiritual; free from sensual desire, esp. in a relationship between two persons of the opposite sex.
4. (usually lowercase) feeling or professing platonic love: He insisted that he was completely platonic in his admiration.

Silhouette page 33- noun

1. a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, esp. a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a famous person's face.
2. the outline or general shape of something: the slim silhouette of a skyscraper.
3. a dark image outlined against a lighter background.

–verb (used with object) 4. to show in or as if in a silhouette.
5. Printing. to remove the background details from (a halftone cut) so as to produce an outline effect.

Assimilating page 34- verb

1. to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
2. to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like; adapt or adjust: to assimilate the new immigrants.
3. Physiology. to convert (food) to substances suitable for incorporation into the body and its tissues.
4. to cause to resemble (usually fol. by to or with).
5. to compare; liken (usually fol. by to or with).
6. Phonetics. to modify by assimilation.

–verb (used without object) 7. to be or become absorbed.
8. to conform or adjust to the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like: The new arrivals assimilated easily and quickly.
9. Physiology. (of food) to be converted into the substance of the body; be absorbed into the system.
10. to bear a resemblance (usually fol. by to or with).
11. Phonetics. to become modified by assimilation.

–noun 12. something that is assimilated

Deformity page 36- noun

1. the quality or state of being deformed, disfigured, or misshapen.
2. Pathology. an abnormally formed part of the body.
3. a deformed person or thing.
4. hatefulness; ugliness

Phychological page 37- adjective

1. of or pertaining to psychology.
2. pertaining to the mind or to mental phenomena as the subject matter of psychology.
3. of, pertaining to, dealing with, or affecting the mind, esp. as a function of awareness, feeling, or motivation: psychological play; psychological effect.

Peons page 37- noun

1. (in Spanish America) a farm worker or unskilled laborer; day laborer.
2. (formerly, esp. in Mexico) a person held in servitude to work off debts or other obligations.
3. any person of low social status, esp. one who does work regarded as menial or unskilled; drudge.

Solidarity page 38- noun plural-ties

1. union or fellowship arising from common responsibilities and interests, as between members of a group or between classes, peoples, etc.: to promote solidarity among union members.
2. community of feelings, purposes, etc.
3. community of responsibilities and interests.

Assimilate page 39- verbs

–verb (used with object) 1. to take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb: He assimilated many new experiences on his European trip.
2. to bring into conformity with the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like; adapt or adjust: to assimilate the new immigrants.
3. Physiology. to convert (food) to substances suitable for incorporation into the body and its tissues.
4. to cause to resemble (usually fol. by to or with).
5. to compare; liken (usually fol. by to or with).
6. Phonetics. to modify by assimilation.

–verb (used without object) 7. to be or become absorbed.
8. to conform or adjust to the customs, attitudes, etc., of a group, nation, or the like: The new arrivals assimilated easily and quickly.
9. Physiology. (of food) to be converted into the substance of the body; be absorbed into the system.
10. to bear a resemblance (usually fol. by to or with).
11. Phonetics. to become modified by assimilation.

–noun 12. something that is assimilated

Cowardice page 39- noun

lack of courage to face danger, difficulty, opposition, pain, etc.

Unbearable page 40–adjective

not bearable; unendurable; intolerable.

Unconscious page 40- adjective and noun

–adjective 1. not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition.
2. temporarily devoid of consciousness.
3. not perceived at the level of awareness; occurring below the level of conscious thought: an unconscious impulse.
4. not consciously realized, planned, or done; without conscious volition or intent: an unconscious social slight.
5. not endowed with mental faculties: the unconscious stones.

–noun 6. the unconscious, Psychoanalysis. the part of the mind containing psychic material that is only rarely accessible to awareness but that has a pronounced influence on behavior.

Epitome page 41- noun

1. a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree the features of a whole class: He is the epitome of goodness.
2. a condensed account, esp. of a literary work; abstract.

Dignity page 41- noun plurar-ties

1. bearing, conduct, or speech indicative of self-respect or appreciation of the formality or gravity of an occasion or situation.
2. nobility or elevation of character; worthiness: dignity of sentiments.
3. elevated rank, office, station, etc.
4. relative standing; rank.
5. a sign or token of respect: an impertinent question unworthy of the dignity of an answer.
6. Archaic. a. person of high rank or title.
b. such persons collectively

Proportions page 46- noun

1. comparative relation between things or magnitudes as to size, quantity, number, etc.; ratio.
2. proper relation between things or parts: to have tastes way out of proportion to one's financial means.
3. relative size or extent.
4. proportions, dimensions or size: a rock of gigantic proportions.
5. a portion or part in its relation to the whole: A large proportion of the debt remains.
6. symmetry, harmony, or balance: an architect with a sense of proportion.
7. the significance of a thing or event that an objective view reveals: You must try to see these mishaps in proportion.
8. Mathematics. a relation of four quantities such that the first divided by the second is equal to the third divided by the fourth; the equality of ratios. Compare rule of three.
9. Archaic. analogy; comparison.

–verb (used with object) 10. to adjust in proper proportion or relation, as to size, quantity, etc.
11. to balance or harmonize the proportions of.

Appeased page 47- verb (use with objects)

1. to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.
2. to satisfy, allay, or relieve; assuage: The fruit appeased his hunger.
3. to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.

Enduring page 48–adjective

1. lasting; permanent: a poet of enduring greatness.
2. patient; long-suffering

Restraint page 49- noun

1. a restraining action or influence: freedom from restraint.
2. Sometimes, restraints. a means of or device for restraining, as a harness for the body.
3. the act of restraining, holding back, controlling, or checking.
4. the state or fact of being restrained; deprivation of liberty; confinement.
5. constraint or reserve in feelings, behavior, etc.

Reprimanded page 50- noun and verb

1. a severe reproof or rebuke, esp. a formal one by a person in authority.
(used with object) 2. to reprove or rebuke severely, esp. in a formal way.

Infantile page 51- adjective

1. characteristic of or befitting an infant; babyish; childish: infantile behavior.
2. of or pertaining to infants or infancy: infantile diseases.
3. Physical Geography. youthful (def. 5).

Dreaded page 52

–verb (used with object) 1. to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
2. to be reluctant to do, meet, or experience: I dread going to big parties.
3. Archaic. to hold in respectful awe.

–verb (used without object) 4. to be in great fear.

–noun 5. terror or apprehension as to something in the future; great fear.
6. a person or thing dreaded.
7. dreads, Informal. dreadlocks.
8. Informal. a person who wears dreadlocks.
9. Archaic. deep awe or reverence.

–adjective 10. greatly feared; frightful; terrible.
11. held in awe or reverential fear.

Excrement page 53- noun

waste matter discharged from the body, esp. feces.

Intensified page 54- verb

–verb (used with object) 1. to make intense or more intense.
2. to make more acute; strengthen or sharpen.
3. Photography. to increase the density and contrast of (a negative) chemically.

–verb (used without object) 4. to become intense or more intense.

Devastating page 57- adjective

1. tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
2. satirical, ironic, or caustic in an effective way: a devastating portrayal of society.

Inconceivable page 60-adjective

1. not conceivable; unimaginable; unthinkable
2. unbelievable; incredible.

Dignified page 63- adjective

characterized or marked by dignity of aspect or manner; stately; decorous: dignified conduct.

Imbecile page 63- adjective and noun

–noun 1. Psychology. a person of the second order in a former classification of mental retardation, above the level of idiocy, having a mental age of seven or eight years and an intelligence quotient of 25 to 50.
2. a dunce; blockhead; dolt.

–adjective 3. mentally feeble.
4. showing mental feebleness or incapacity.
5. stupid; silly; absurd.
6. Archaic. weak or feeble.

Decadence page 65- noun

1. the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay: Some historians hold that the fall of Rome can be attributed to internal decadence.
2. moral degeneration or decay; turpitude.
3. unrestrained or excessive self-indulgence.
4. (often initial capital letter) the decadent movement in literature.

Deplorable page 71- adjective

1. causing or being a subject for grief or regret; lamentable: the deplorable death of a friend.
2. causing or being a subject for censure, reproach, or disapproval; wretched; very bad: This room is in deplorable order. You have deplorable manners!

Modesty page 78- nouns plural-ties

1. the quality of being modest; freedom from vanity, boastfulness, etc.
2. regard for decency of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
3. simplicity; moderation.