[Word Powers] Today's Words

Embark (em-BAHRK) (verb):

 

1.       To board a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle, as for a journey.

2.       To start something new or important.

 

Today, we bid farewell to Monish, one of the founding Word Power Adjudicators, as he embarks upon a new phase in his career.

 

Retrofit (re-troh-fit) (verb):

 

1.       To fit into or onto existing equipment.

2.       To replace existing parts, equipment, etc., with updated parts or systems.

 

To retrofit solar heating to a poorly insulated house.

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Cataclysm(kat-uh-kliz-uhm) (noun):  Any violent upheaval, esp. one of a social or political nature.

 

The movie 2012 is about a global cataclysm that causes massive destruction to our planet.

                 

Castigate (kas-ti-geyt) (verb): To criticize or reprimand severely.

 

President Obama castigated Senate Republicans last week for opposing Sen. Chris Dodd’s “Wall Street" reform bill.

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Vicissitude (vi-sisi-t(y)-ood) (Noun):

 

1.            A variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something.

 

2.            Mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).

 

The project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research.           

 Acquittal (u-kwitl) (Noun):

 

1. A judgment of not guilty.

 

If the court sets aside the order it may also reinstate the original acquittal.

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Unprecedented (uhn-pres-i-den-tid) (Adj):  Without previous instance; never before known or experienced.

 

President Barack Obama says the Gulf oil slick is a "potentially unprecedented" environmental disaster.               

 

Omniscient (om-nish-uh nt) (Adj): Having total knowledge; knowing everything

 

The teachings of Gautam Buddha are considered to reveal a step-by-step path to lasting happiness & omniscient wisdom.

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Reign (reyn):

 1.       (verb) To be ruling a country. To be the main feeling or quality in a situation or person

The bomb attacks produced a panic which reigned over the city.

 2.       (noun) A period when a particular person, feeling, or quality is very important or has a strong influence

 His successful reign as manager of the team.
   
Rein (reyn):

1.       (verb) To control an emotion, activity or situation to prevent it from becoming too powerful. Followed by "in"

 We tried to rein in our excitement and curiosity.

2.       (noun) A strapped used on something, usually on a horse, to control it.

 You pull on both reins to stop or slow a horse, but only the left rein to turn left.

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Erstwhile (urst-hwahyl)  (adj):  Former, at one time.

Mohammed Ali and erstwhile Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev have endorsed pizza hut in the past.

 Erudite(er-oo-dahyt) (adj): characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly.

 Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, was an erudite man and an avid reader.

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Gazebo (guh-zey-boh) (Noun):

 A small roofed structure like an open pavilion or summerhouse whence a view(attractive) may be had, a belvedere

 Gloge was lost in thoughts staring out at the expanse of the ocean from the overlooking gazebo.

 Sanguinary (sang-gwuh-ner-ee) (Adj):

 1)     Full of or characterized by bloodshed, bloody

 The war of Indian independence was one long, sanguinary struggle for the people of India – though the British historians would not admit this.

 2)     Eager or delighted to shed blood, murderous, bloodthirsty

 In the movie 'Hannibal' Anthony Hopkins portrays the role of a highly intelligent, sanguinary psychopath who also indulges in cannibalism.