Vocab

• Arrogate (v.) To claim and assume as a right that to which one is not entitled; to lay claim to and appropriate (a privilege, advantage, etc.) without just reason or through self-conceit, insolence, or haughtiness.

• The current government in the United States has arrogated to themselves far too much power over our personal life.  

• Dogged (adj.)  This word seems to have 2 senses in use.  The first sense is negative and it means "having an air of sullen obstinacy"; the second sense is neutral and means "having the tenacity or characteristic persistence of some breeds of dogs"

• Hoping to increase his store's revenue, the dogged sales clerk obdurately performed his chicanery on every person that walked in the door. 

• Consummate (v.) to bring to completion; to finish; to accomplish; also, to make a marriage complete by act of sex 

• The graduation ceremony consummated the man's long struggle with learning.

• Dissension (n.) disagreement in opinion, especially that which brings strife or contention 

• The dissension in the United States stems partly from the lack of modesty on behalf of the atheistic science community and partly on the educated--albeit reticent--theistic citizens.

• Obeisance (n.)  Homage or submission to a person in authority; deference towards an acknowledged superior; respectfulness of manner or bearing. 

• In an attempt to demand obeisance from the young man, the older gentlemen treated his personal narrative on the art world as a picayune anecdote to their otherwise important conversation about the cost of paintings.

• Extirpate (v.) to root out, to exterminate, to totally destroy (used with of and from)

• Capitalists set up puppet democracies in an attempt to extirpate from the minds of the people any alternative to capitalism. 

• Panegyric (n.) a person who writes a eulogy; a speech in praise of something or someone 

• Ludovico Einauldi's newest album seems to my ears to be a panegyric hymn to the interminable strength of the human spirit and will.  

• Veracity (n.) the quality of trustworthiness as manifested in a person or individual (used with of)

• It is quite rare to find veracity of businessmen in competitive markets.  

• Enervate (v.) to weaken physically 

•  The alcoholic beverage enervated my mind.