Week 13
To ask again and again until someone gets annoyed.
Importune
An idea or rule that you think is true and use to start thinking about something
premise
To guess something without having all the facts
surmise
final, the best, the greatest
ultimate
To take total control over people or a country by force.
subjugate
Totally true and impossible to argue with.
incontrovertible
To put something in danger of getting hurt or ruined
jeopardize
To hold back your feelings so nobody can see them
repress
to result finally, to happen as a result
eventuate
Showing a good chance of success; a very good time to do something
propitious
´Done secretly or quietly so nobody notices
surreptitious
Unwilling or unable to believe something; showing disbelief
incredulous
To stop something before it is finished or make it shorter
curtail
to give off energy, light
emit
Just beginning to form; not fully grown or developed yet
inchoate
´A safe place.
haven
To spread through every part of something (like smell or water)
permeate
Mysterious, hard to understand, like a secret code
cryptic
underground
subterranean
workable
viable
to face the problem directly
to take the bull by the horns
the major portion
the lion's share
to go from a difficult situation into the fire
out of the frying pan into the fire
to see that interest doesn't die down
to keep the pot boiling
Which word in our Week 13 vocabulary list is the longest, containing the highest number of letters?
Incontrovertable (18)