Word List 37

a guide or rule for morals; maxim

cliff; situation of great peril

to hasten; throw headlong or fling

steep; overhasty or rash

summary

to make impossible; eliminate

unusually advanced in development

partiality; preference

to give inclination toward beforehand; make susceptible

superior

to forestall by acting first; head off

to make oneself tidy in appearance; to congratulate oneself

introductory

capable of grasping or holding

church dignitary or high ranking person

introduction

assumption; postulate

superiority of power, quantity, etc

privilege; right

the ability to foretell the future

premonition

unnatural; extraordinary

excuse

formally precise or proper

seniority by birth

existing at the beginning; rudimentary

to groom oneself with care

hardship; deprivation

secret; hidden

inclination

to urge

wonderful or marvelous; enormous

highly gifted child; marvel

wasteful; immoral

overabundance; excess

ancestor

children; offspring

forecasted course of disease; prediction

to predict

member of the working class; blue collar guy

abundantly fruitful

verbosity; tedious wordiness

notable; conspicuous

a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; headland

to cause; to provide a cue for an actor

to make known by open declaration; proclaim

inclined to; prostrate

used to prevent disease

proximity; kinship