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PROGRESS UPDATE

Learn a new word every day for a year

A goal of Shelly Lorrain Durkee on their 101 Things in 1001 Days: Take 2! list with a status of Done.
276 - Esemplastic - Molding into one; unifying

277 - Benison - A blessing

278 - Velleity - A wish or inclination not strong enough to lead to action.

279 - Obduracy - A state of refusing to change feelings, beliefs or course of action with no reason

280 - Abjure - Solemnly renounce a believe, cause or claim.

281 - Abrade - Scrape or wear away by friction or erosion.

282 - Tocsin - An alarm bell or signal.

283 - Leitmotif - A recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea or situation

284 - Emulous - Desiring or aiming to equal or surpass another; competitive. Characterized by or arising from emulation or imitation.

285 - Athanasy - An absence of death or the condition of everlasting life, deathless, immortality

286 - Busk - Perform music or other entertainment in the street or other public place for monetary donations

287 - Anfractuous - Sinuous or circuitous

288 - Panglossian - Marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible worlds

289 - Mansuetude - Meekness, gentleness

290 - Tendentious - Expressing or intending to promote a particular cause or point of view, especially a controversial one.

291 - Moue - A pouting expression used to convey annoyance or distaste

292 - Putsch - A violent attempt to overthrow a government

293 - Gnathonic - Flattering; deceitful

294 - Valetudinarian - Showing undue concern about one's health

295 - Constellate - To unite in a cluster. To set or adorn with or as if with constellations.

296 - Epigone - A less distinguished follower or imitator of someone; especially an artist or philosopher

297 - Panjandrum - A powerful personage or pretentious official.

298 - Hypermnesia - Unusual power or enhancement of memory, typically under abnormal conditions such as trauma, hypnosis or narcosis.

299 - Arenicolous - Living or burrowing, or growing in the sand.

300 - Synecdoche - The use of a word or phrase, when a part of something is used in order to refer to the whole of it, or the whole to refer to a part of it.


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