Week 19 Words

1. Amnesty (n) – a general pardon
2. Balk (v) – to refuse to budge
3. Blunt (adj) – plain spoken
4. Coup (n) – revolution, overthrow
5. Dismantle (v) – to take apart, disassemble
6. Exonerate (v) – to free from guilt
7. Expatriate (n) – an exile
8. Fiat (n) – an official order, decree
9. Legion (n) – a large number
10. Mendacious (adj) – false, lying
11. Megalomania (n) – abnormal desire for power
12. Nostalgia (n) – yearning for the past
13. Parsimonious (adj) - miserly
14. Pecuniary (adj) – relating to money, financial
15. Profligate (v) - wasteful
16. Restrictive (adj) – harsh, confining
17. Rife (adj) - widespread
18. Strife (n) – unrest, discord
19. Sumptuous (adj) – lavish, extravagant
20. Underwrite (adj) – agree to finance