Building a Better Vocabulary

Lecture 25

1. perdition/extirpate


2. Regicide is the murder of a ruler (king or queen); patricide is the murder
   of one’s father; and parricide is the murder of a parent or close relative.


3. desuetude


4. caesura


5. ¿QGHVLqFOH


6. abrogated


7. vivisection

Lecture 26

1. bumptious


2. dissembling


3. stultifying


4. frisson


5. detritus


6. a choice between what is available and nothing

Lecture 27

1. sesquipedalian