Monthly Archives: September 2005

depredation

1. damage or loss; ravage 2. a predatory attack; a raid

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aphasia

partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, resulting from damage to the brain caused by injury or disease

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revenant

1. one that returns after a lengthy absence 2. one who returns after death

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bifurcate

to divide or separate into two parts or branches; fork

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ameliorate

to make or become better; improve

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abrogate

to abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority

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abnegate

1. to give up (rights or a claim, for example); renounce 2. to deny (something) to oneself

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diaspora

1. a. a dispersion of a people from their original homeland. b. the community formed by such a people 2. the dispersion of Jews outside of Israel from the sixth century b.c., when they were exiled to Babylonia, until the present time 3. the body of Jews or Jewish communities outside Palestine or modern Israel 4. a dispersion of an originally homogeneous entity, such as a language or culture

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fulminate

1. to issue a thunderous verbal attack or denunciation 2. to explode or detonate

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concatenate

1. To connect or link in a series or chain 2. (in Computer Science) to arrange (strings of characters) into a chained list

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