imbecility = weakness of mind; state of being an imbecile;
N. imbecile: stupid person; fool
rebuke = scold harshly; criticize severely
facile = easily accomplished; ready or fluent; superficial;
not deep; Ex. facile solution to a complex problem; Ex. facile speaker; N. facility: ability to do something easily and well; ease in doing resulting from skill or aptitude; something that facilitates an action; amenity; Ex. with
great facility
intuition = immediate insight; power of knowing without
reasoning; ADJ. intuitive; V. intuit: know by intuition
orthography = correct spelling; CF. ortho-: straight; correct;
Ex. orthodontics
rustic = pertaining to country people; unsophisticated;
simple; crude; uncouth; (of furniture) rough with the
bark left on; N. rural person; rustic person
diffuse = wordy; verbose; rambling; spread out (like a
gas); V: spread out in all directions; disperse; N. diffusion;
CF. suffuse
taper = very thin candle; gradual decrease in the width of
a long object; V. make or become gradually narrower
toward one end
bearing = deportment; connection
ideology = system of ideas characteristic of a group or
culture
sadistic = inclined to cruelty; N. sadism: delight in cruelty
malady = illness
lance = pierce with a lance; cut into; N: spearlike weapon
advocacy = support; active pleading on behalf of someone
or something
trek = travel; journey; V: make a long difficult journey
wage = begin and continue (a war)
primogeniture = seniority by birth; state of being the firstborn
child; right of the eldest child (to inherit the entire
property of one or both parents)