Eli's Vocab List #3

1) Bourgeoisie- members of the middle class

2) Proletariat- the lowest social or economic class of a community


3) Stop-loss- a provision that limits the amount of some types of insurance or investment loss to a predetermined level
4) Elucidate- to make lucid especially by explanation or analysis

5) Elusive- tending to evade grasp or pursuit


6) Profligate-completely given up to dissipation and licentiousness

7) Chasm- a marked division, separation, or difference


8) Fulminate- to utter or send out with denunciation

9) Ostentatious- marked by or fond of conspicuous or vainglorious and sometimes pretentious display

10) Obfuscate- to make obscure

Eli's Vocab List #2

1) Ego- the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world.

2) Subjectivity- relating of an object as obsolete.

3) Metacognition- awareness of one’s thinking or mind process.

4) Epistemology- the study of the nature and grounds of knowledge with reference to its limits and validity.

5) Mollify-reducing in intensity

6) Abrogate-to treat as a nonexistent

7) Bureaucracy- a body of nonelective government officials

8) Viscosity- the property of resistance to flow in a fluid or semifluid

9) Filibuster- the use of extreme dilatory tactics in an attempt to delay or prevent action especially in a legislative assembly

10) Reconcile- to cause to submit to or accept something unpleasant

11) Vilify- to utter slanderous and abusive statements against

12) Aggregate- taking all units as a whole