Intuition
Definition: the ability to know something by using your feelings rather than considering the facts
Usage: Her intuition was telling her that something was wrong.
Scrutiny
Definition: careful and thorough examination
Usage: Because of their past crimes everything they do now will be subject to scrutiny
Suave
Definition: behaving in a relaxed, confident, and pleasant way in social situations
Usage: A suave and sophisticated businessman
Pessimism
Definition: a feeling that bad things will happen and that something will not be successful; the tendency to have this feeling
Usage: Although the economy shows signs of improving a sense of pessimism remains.
Emancipate
Definition: to free someone, especially from legal, political, or social restrictions
Usage: President Abraham Lincoln is best known for his efforts to emancipate African Americans from slavery.
Heterodox
Definition: not following the usual or accepted beliefs and opinions Usage A Christian clergyman: with a very heterodox opinion on the divinity of Jesus
Exorcise
Definition: to make an evil spirit leave a place or someone's body by special prayers or magic
2) to remove something that is bad or painful from your mind
Usage: She had managed to exorcize these unhappy memories from her mind.
Vacuous
Definition :showing no sign of intelligence or sensitive feelings
Usage: He had a vacuous expression on his face.
Necromancy
Definition: the practice of claiming to communicate by magic with the dead, in order to learn about the future
2) the use of magic powers, especially evil ones
Usage: In the conjuring of the souls of the dead necromancy seemed to offer human beings a means of exerting some control over an uncertain world
Fallow
Definition: not used for growing crops, especially so that the quality of the land will improve.
2) when nothing is created or produced; not successful.
Usage : Contemporary dance is coming onto the arts scene again after a long fallow period.
Malediction
Definition: a magical word or phrase uttered with the intention of bringing about evil; a curse.
Usage: A malediction was pronounced against the town and ever since there has been no fresh water there.
Shun
Definition: to avoid someone or something.
Usage: After his divorce he found himself being shunned by many of his former friends.
Vagabond
Definition: moving from place to place without a fixed home.
Usage: He had lived as a vagabond begging for food.
Somnolent
Definition: tired and ready to fall asleep.
2) causing a person to fall asleep : very boring.
Usage: The sedative makes people very somnolen
Mandate
Definition: an official order to do something.
2) the power to act that voters give to their elected leaders.
Usage: It was a mandate that cars not speed on that curve in the road.
