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Word: scholarly

Definition: full of learning; erudite; like a scholar; Ex. scholarly journal


More Vocab Words

::: enterprise - willingness to take new ventures; initiative; business organization; plan (that is difficult or daring); Ex. their latest enterprise to sail round the world in a small boat
::: inured - accustomed; hardened; Ex. inured to the Alaskan cold; V. inure: make used to something undesirable; harden; CF. unfeeling
::: potent - powerful; convincing; persuasive; greatly influential
::: comity - courtesy; civility; Ex. comity of nations
::: environ - enclose; surround; N. environs: surrounding area (as of a city)
::: enrapture - please intensely; fill with rapture and delight
::: spontaneity - lack of premeditation; naturalness; freedom from constraint; ADJ. spontaneous: self-generated; unpremeditated; happening without being planned
::: capricious - unpredictable; fickle
::: pedagogue - teacher; CF. child leader
::: ferment - agitation; commotion(noisy and excited activity); unrest (of a political kind); V. produce by fermentation; undergo fermentation; cause (a state of trouble)