Vocabulary List #13: 12/9/97
| arbitrary | selected at random and without reason |
| astringent | able to draw together the soft organic tissues; puckery |
| bromide | a commonplace or tiresome person; bore |
| destitute | lacking something needed or desirable; poverty; poor |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality; funny |
| eulogy | a commendatory formal statement or set oration |
| exodus | a mass departure; immigration |
| felicity | quality or state of being happy; apt expression or thought |
| heresy | an opinion or doctrine contrary to church dogma |
| hierarchy | a body of persons in authority |
| inductive | leading on; persuasive; introductory |
| iterate | to say or do again |
| liaison | a close bond or connection |
| melee | a confused struggle; hand to hand fight with several people |
| opportune | occurring at an appropriate time |
| pestilence | something destructive or pernicious; violent or fatal disease |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence |
| quorum | a select group of people; minimum number to transact business |
| rampant | marked by menacing wildness; extravagance or absence of restraint |
| rapport | relationship, especially a close sympathetic one; agreement |
| renege | to back out of an agreement; to deny |
| reparation | the act of making amends; repairs; compensation |
| respite | to put off; delay; interval of rest from work |
| ruse | a stratagem or trick |
| soporific | to crave sleep or characterized by sleeplessness |
| stoical | firmly restraining response to pain or distress; impassive |
| subsidize | to aid or promote with public money |
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled |
| vociferous | so loud of insistence as to comply attention |
| wry | having a bent or twisted shape or condition; perverse; contrary |