Supremes' Greatest Hits Vocabulary Chapters 1-4

Redress:
- The act of correcting an error or a fault.

Grievance:
- Grudge: Resentment strong enough to justify retaliation

Diminish:
- Decrease in size, extent, or range

Immunity:
- Exemption from obligation, service, duty, or liability.

Compromise:
- To make a deal where someone gives up part of, or all of its demand.

Colossal:
- So great in size or force or extent as to bring forth awe.

Comprise:
- To consist of; be composed of

Consent:
- Accept: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to

Harrow:
- Agonizing: extremely painful

Reaffirm:
- To affirm again; to strengthen or support

Litigant:
- A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit

Colloquial:
- Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation

Concur:
- Agree: be in accord; be in agreement

Dissent:
- Dissent is a sentiment of non-agreement or opposition to an idea


Contentious:
- To dispute or disagree.

Garner:
- To earn something by one's efforts or actions

Pithy:
- Concise and full of meaning

Desegregation:
- The act of eliminating segregation

Contemplate:
- To look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought

Infallible:
- Incapable of failure or error

Prerogative:
- A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group.

Preeminence:
- The most important; greatest

Reverberate:
- Have a long or continuing effect

Jockeyed:
- To manipulate cleverly or trickily

Entrench:
-Fix firmly or securely

Commission:
- A special group delegated to consider some matter
- Granting authority to undertake certain functions

Incensed:
- Angered at something unjust or wrong

Negate:
- To be in contradiction with; show to be false

Superlative:
- An exaggerated expression

Repugnant:
- Offensive to the mind

Kowtow:
- Bend the knees and bow in a servile manner

Consummate:
-Revealing supreme mastery or skill

Tour de force:
- A masterly or brilliant feat

Subservient:
- To serve under another person

Resonate:
- Be received or understood

Paramount:
- Having superior power and influence

Apathetic:
- Showing little or no emotion

Arbitrarily:
- In a random manner

Gerrymander:
- Divide unfairly and to one's advantage

Invoke:
- Summon into action or bring into existence

Feasible:
- Capable of being done

Pantheon:
- A monument commemorating a nation's dead heroes

Smoldering:
- Showing scarcely suppressed anger

Spectacle:
- Something or someone seen

Confiscate:
- Seizure by the government

Situated:
- Located in a specific place

Invalidate:
- Take away the legal force of or render ineffective

Emancipate:
- Give equal rights to

Fractionalize:
- To separate into parts

CHAPTER 2

Provision:
- The activity of supplying or providing something

Mandate:
- A document giving an official instruction

Nondenominational:
- Not restricted to a particular religious denomination

Inconsequential:
- Lacking worth or importance

Inconsistent:
- Displaying a lack of consistency

Inhibit:
- To put down by force or authority

Implicate:
- Bring into intimate and incriminating connection

Subsequent:
- Following in time or order

Endorse:
- Give support or one's approval

Staunch- fundamentalist:
- Strict adherer to a set of basic principles.

Irrational:
- Not consistent with or using reason

Forbade:
- Command against

Commerce:
- Transactions having the objective of supplying commodities

Ridicule:
- Language or behavior intended to mock or humiliate

Bigots:
- A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own

Vigorous:
- Forceful and energetic action or activity

Spur:
-Incite or stimulate

Culminate:
- To reach a final or climactic stage

Unanimous:
- In complete agreement

Litigate:
- Engage in legal proceedings

Permissible:
- That may be permitted especially as according to rule

Extol:
-To praise; to make high

Mandate:
- Command or authorization to act in a particular way

Foregone:
- Well in the past

Intelligent Design:
- Assertion that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection

CHAPTER 3

Penchant:
- A strong liking

Indigent:
- Poor enough to need help from others

Avail:
- Use to one's advantage

Tedious:
- Boring

Elicit:
- Arouse

Incriminating:
- Charging or suggestive of guilt

CHAPTER 4

Contended:
- To strive in opposition

Unanimous:
- In complete agreement


Deliberate:
- Think about carefully

Impenetrable:
- Not admitting of penetration

Criterion:
- A basis for comparison