Thursday, 28 April 2016

New words

Machiavellian - "the employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct".




Irascible - having a tendency to anger easily


Patriarchal - a system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is reckoned through the male line.


Sedition - conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.


Credulous -
having or showing too great a readiness to believe things.


Fratricide - the killing of one's brother or sister.


Farcical - relating to or resembling farce, especially because of absurd or ridiculous aspects.


Farce - a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations.


Elision - the omission of a sound or syllable when speaking (as in I'm, let's ).

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