August 13 Licentious: adj: lascivious; libertine, lewd

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