I’m pleased to have officially finished my first quarter of graduate school yesterday. Before I pack away the notes, articles and books that have been strewn all over the house for the past three months, here are a few of the great vocabulary words that I encountered. Some of them I thought I knew but then had to look up to be certain. See how you do. The test is, as it always was, to use it in a sentence. Good luck.
LACUNA
SPECIOUS
CASUISTRY
IRENIC
SURD
PROBITY
TELEOLOGICAL
HEGEMONY
ADUMBRATE
PHRONESIS
HERMENEUTICS
EXEGIS
PHENOMENOLOGY
ONTOLOGICAL
PRAXIS
DEONTOLOGICAL
APORIA
OBEISANCE
DIACHRONIC
ANALEPSIS
AMPHORA
CAESURAE
OBDURATE
VITUPERATIVE