Your Sept/Oct WOD definitions

Ladies! Below you'll find our agreed-upon definitions for our first list of WODs. Study these for your first WOD quiz which will take place on Monday afternoon, December 13th! (I've also sent these definitions to you in an email.)

1. Exacerbate (v) to make a bad situation/neg. feeling worse
2. Plethora (n) an excess amount of something; overabundance
3. Invective (n) an insulting/abusive word or expression
4. Epitome (n) archetype; a perfect/typical example of
5. Soliloquy (pn) the act of talking while or as if alone (theater)
6. Arcane (adj) understood by few; obscure
7. Pariah (n) an outcast
8. Resilient (adj) able to recover/rebound quickly
9. Stoic (adj) unmoved by joy or grief; emotionless
10. Chagrin (n) embarrassment after failing; humiliation
11. Capitulate (v) to surrender under agreed terms; to give-in/cave in
12. Inadvertently (adj) not achieved thru deliberate planning; not on purpose
13. Reiterate (v) to repeat; to say again
14. Innocuous (adj) harmless; inoffensive
15. Peruse (v) to read thru with care; to browse; to examine
16. Contraption (n) device, gadget, machine or appliance
17. Efficacious (adj) effective; efficient; producing the desired result
18. Temerity (n) excessive boldness, carelessness, and impulsiveness
19. Serendipity (n) good luck; random beneficial happenings
20. Prolific (adj) reproducing in large numbers; fruitful, productive, abundant