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August 13 Licentious: adj: lascivious; libertine, lewd

August 13 Licentious: adj: lascivious; libertine, lewd. August 14 Humanities: n: branches of knowledge concerned with human beings and their culture. August 15 free verse: n: poetry without a regular pattern of meter and rhyme, relying on other elements for its structure.

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August 13 Licentious: adj: lascivious; libertine, lewd

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  1. August 13Licentious: adj: lascivious; libertine, lewd

  2. August 14Humanities: n: branches of knowledge concerned with human beings and their culture

  3. August 15free verse: n: poetry without a regular pattern of meter and rhyme, relying on other elements for its structure

  4. August 16 misanthrope: n: a person who hates all people

  5. August 17 homicide: n: the killing of one person by another; a person who kills another; murder

  6. August 20virile: adj: having certain characteristics associated with men; manly

  7. August 21bodacious: adj: blatant: remarkable: impressive

  8. August 22tone: n: an author’s attitude toward the audience or subject

  9. August 23autocrat: n: a ruler who has absolute and unlimited power; a despot

  10. August 24Automaton: n: a person who behaves in a mechanical, routine manner: a robot

  11. August 27autonomy: n: the condition of being self-governing; independence

  12. August 28egoism: n: valuing everything according to one’s personal interest; conceit

  13. August 29genealogy: n: a record of descent from one’s ancestors: the study of family records; lineage

  14. August 30genocide: n: the planned annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group

  15. August 31motif: n: a dominant idea in a work of literature

  16. September 3genteel: adj: well-mannered: refined: polite

  17. September 4remonstrate: v: to speak in protest or disapproval

  18. September 4gentry: n” aristocratic or well-bred people

  19. September 5heterogeneous: adj: having parts that are unrelated or completely different: incongruous

  20. September 6umbrage: n: extreme offense

  21. Sept. 7oxymoron: n: a self-contradictory combination of words

  22. Sept 8engender: v: to give rise to: to bring into existence

  23. Sept. 9genesis: n: a beginning or origin

  24. Sept 10indigenous: adj: occurring in or characterizing an area; Native

  25. Sept 11altruism :n: concern for the welfare of others

  26. Sept 12progenitor: n: a direct ancestor: an originator of a line of descent

  27. Sept. 13progeny: n: children or descendants: offspring

  28. Sept. 16matrix: n: the surroundings within which something begins or develops

  29. Sept. 17matriculate: v: to register as a student at a college or university

  30. Sept. 18apostrophe: n: a rhetorical device in which an absent or imaginary person/abstraction is directly addressed as though present

  31. Sept. 19avuncular: adj: like an uncle

  32. Sept. 20uxorious: adj: dominated by one’s wife

  33. Sept. 23bigamy: n: marriage to two mates

  34. Sept. 24puerile: adj: childish: immature

  35. Sept. 25pedagogue: n: a teacher

  36. Sept 26pedant: n: a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rahter that to understanding

  37. September 27entity: n: something that has a real or independent existence

  38. September 30parody: n: the imitation of a serious piece of literature meant to ridicule the work: its style or the author

  39. Oct. 1 moribund: adj: about to die or end

  40. Oct. 2postmortem: n: an examination to determine the cause of death: an autopsy

  41. Oct. 8mortify: v: to shame

  42. Oct. 9innate: adj: possessed at birth: inborn

  43. Oct. 10naive: adj: childlike: unsophisticated

  44. Oct. 11 nascent: adj: emerging: coming into existence

  45. Oct. 14amicable: adj: friendly

  46. Oct. 15personification: n: a figure of speech that gives nonhuman ideas, abstractions, or objects human qualities

  47. Oct 16enamored: adj: in love with: charmed by

  48. Oct. 17inimical: adj: harmful

  49. Oct. 18odious: adj: distasteful; hateful

  50. Oct. 21 philander: v: to engage in casual love affairs

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