Edukasyon Online: Philippine Legal Forms

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ABJURE - to renounce, repudiate or retract, esp. with solemnity, under oath; to recant.

AB INITIO - from the beginning

ABNEGATE - to refuse or deny oneself (rights, claims, conveniences, etc.); reject; give up

ADDLEBRAINED - foolish; silly; having or revealingf a muddled or confused mind; stupid

AD HOMINEM - appealing to one's prejudices, emotions or special interest rather than to intellect or reason, as by
                       attacking one's opponent rather than debating the issue.

ADVENTITIOUS - added extrinsically; not essentially inherent; out of the proper place or usual place.

A FORTIORI - with stronger reason

AGRESTIC - rural; crude; uncouth.

AIDE-MEMOIRE - a memorandum of a discussion; proposed agreement

ALEATORY - depending or pertaining to chance, luck or contingency; unpredictable.

ALEXIPHARMAC -an antidote

AMICUS CURIAE - a friend of the court; a person appointed by the court as an impartial adviser.

AMORPHOUS - without definite form; shapeless, of no definite or particular type, kind or character; unorganized;
                       vague.

ANACHRONISM - the representation of something as existing or occurring at other than its proper time, esp.
                       earlier; anything that is or seems to be out of its proper time in history.

ANCHORITE -a person who lives alone and apart from society for religious meditation; hermit; recluse

ANDROGYNOUS - exhibiting both male and female characteristics, esp. sexual ones; hermaproditic.

ANIMADVERT - to observe, censure; to comment or act upon somethingwith disapproval; criticize adversely.

ANTEBELLUM - before the war; (in the U.S.) before or existing before the American Civil War

ANTIPODE - anything diametrically opposed; exact opposite.

ANTITHESIS - opposition; contrast; the direct opposite.

APHORISM - a terse, pithy expression embodying a wise or clever observation or a general truth; maxim; adage.

APOCALYPTIC - prophesying total destruction or great disasters; affording a revelation or prophesy; pertaining to
                       the Apocalypse.

APOCRYPHAL - of doubtful sanction, authorship or authority; uncanonical; false; spurious; counterfeit.

APOGEE - the farthest or highest point.

A POSTERIORI - from the effect to the cause; reasoning sequence opposed to a priori

A PRIORI - reasoning sequence from cause to effect.

ARGUMENTUM AD ADSURDUM - an argument proving the absurdity of an opponent's argument.

ARGUMENTUM AD HOMINEM - an argument to the individual man, i.e., to his interests and prejudices.

ARMAGEDDON - any great decisive battle.

ATHWART - across; against; opposed

ATRABILIOUS - sad; melancholy; morose; gloomy; irritable; bad-tempered

AUTARKY - national economic self-sufficiency; a national policy of economic independence, esp. of getting along
                       without imports.

AUTODIDACT - a person who is self-taught.

AVANT GARDE - the advance group, the leaders, or the radical in any field, esp. in the visual, literary or musical
                       arts, whose works are characterized by unorthodox and experimental methods; vanguard

BAGATELLE - something of little value; an unimportant trifle; a short, light piece of music.

BEAU COUP - very much; very many

BEAU GESTE - a fine or beautiful gesture; an act or offer that seems fine, noble but is empty.

BEAU MONDE - fashionable society; elegant world

BELLWETHER - a leader of a movement or activity.

BETE NOIRE - something or someone that a person particularly dislikes, fears, avoids, dreads or loathes.

BILLINGSGATE - coarsely or vulgarly abusive language.

BLANDISHMENT - speech or action that flatter and tends to coax, entice or persuade; allurement.

BLOVIATE - to orate verbosely and windily.

BONHOME - good nature; pleasant and easy manner.

BON VIVANT - a person who lives luxuriously and enjoys good food and drink; an epicure.

BRAVURA - a display of daring; brilliant performance; dash

BRIO - animation; vivacity; zest

BUMPTIOUS - offensively assertive; disagreeably or excessively conceited, arrogant or forward.

CACHINNATE - to laugh loudly, immoderately or excessively.

CADGE - to obtain by imposing on another's generosity or friendship; to borrow without intent to repay.

CARTE BLANCHE - full power or authorization

CAVEAT EMPTOR - let the buyer beware

CAVIL - a trivial, annoying and pointless objection; quibble; the raising of trivial questions.

CHIMERA - a horrible or unreal creature of the imagination; a vain, impossible or idle fancy.

CHUTZPAH - unmitigated effrontery or impudence; shameless audacity; insolence.

CLAUDICANT - lame; having a limp

CLERISY - learned persons as a class; literati; intelligentsia; educated people as a class.

CLOY - to weary by an excess of something, as of food; sweetness, richness or pleasure; surfeit; satiate; to become
                       uninteresting or distasteful through overabundance.

COGITATE - to think deeply or intently; to ponder; to meditate.

COGNOSCENTI - those who are well-informed or have superior knowledge and understanding of a certain field, esp.
                       of fine arts, literature or the world of fashion.

COLLOCATE - to arrange or place together, esp. side by side; to arrange in proper order.

COMMINATE - to threaten with divine vengeance.

COMPOS MENTIS - of sound mind

CONCATENATION - a series of links united; a series or order of things depending on each other as if linked
                       together; a chain; succession.

CONDIGN -suitable to the fault or crime; deserved; adequate

CONTRETEMPS - an inopportune or unfortunate occurrence; an embarrassing mischance; awkward mishap.

CONUNDRUM - a riddle whose answer involves a pun; any puzzling question or problem.

COUP DE GRACE - a death blow, esp. one delivered mercifully to end suffering by a mortally wounded person; any
                       finishing or decisive stroke.

CUMSHOW -a present, gratuity or tip.

DEBOUCH - to come forth; emerge

DECLASSE - reduced to or having low status

DEFENESTRATION - the act of throwing a person or thing out of a window; a tossing out through a window.

DEMIMONDE - a class of women who have lost social standing because of indiscreet behavior or sexual
                       promiscuity.

DEMOTIC - of or pertaining to the common people; popular; common.

DE RIGUEUR - strictly required, as by etiquette, usage or fashion.

DESULTORY - lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order; disconnected; not methodical.

DETRITUS - loose material that is worn away from rocks, debris.

DIKTAT - a harsh settlement unilaterally imposed on a defeated party; an authoritative decree or order.

EBULLIENT - overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement.

EFFULGENCE - the state of being bright or radiant; brilliance.

ESURIENT - hungry; voracious; greedy

EVANESCENT - liable to vanish or pass away like vapor; fleeting

EXIGUOUS - extremely scanty; meager

EX PARTE - from one side only; other party is not around or absent.

EX TEMPORE - without preparation; impromptu

FAIT ACCOMPLI - a thing already done

FALSUS IN UNO, FALSUS IN OMNIBUS - false in one thing, false in everything. Legally, the entire testimony of a
                       witness may be disregarded if some part of it is found to be false.

FARRAGO - a confused mixture; an assortment; a medley

FAUX PAS - a false step; a social blunder

FRIABLE - easily crumbled; pulverized or reduced to powder.

FURBELOW - something showy or superfluous.

GAUCHERIE - lack of social grace; tactlessness

GLABRIOUS - smooth; bald; without hair.

GRACILE - gracefully slender; thin.

GRANDILOQUENT - speaking or expressed in a lofty highfalluting, pompous or bombastic style.

GRAVAMEN - the essential part of an accusation or that which weighs most heavily or adversely against the
                       accused.

GRAVID - in the family way or pregnant.

HABEAS CORPUS - a legal order directing somebody with custody of a person to bring the party in court.

HALCYON - peaceful; calm; tranquil.

HOLOGRAPHIC - wholly written by the person in whose name it appears, applies particularly to wills and
                       testaments.

IN ARTICULO MORTIS (IN EXTREMIS) - at the point of death

INCHOATE - in the early stages; not yet completely or clearly formed or organized; incipient.

INCULPATE - to charge with fault; blame, accuse or involve in a charge.

INEFFABLE - incapable of being expressed in words; unspeakable; indescribable

INELUCTABLE - impossible to avoid or evade; inevitable

IN LOCO PARENTIS - in the place of a parent

IPSO FACTO - by the fact itself; by the nature of the case.

JINGO - a person who professes patriotism loudly or excessively.

KVETCH - to complain; to whine

LAMBENT - playing lightly on or over a surface; flickering as a lambent flame

LEGERDEMAIN - sleight of hand

LOGORRHEA - excessive talkativeness or wordiness.

MODUS VIVENDI - mode of living

MOIETY - one of equal parts; an indefinite part

NE PLUS ULTRA - the highest point or culmination; the highest point of perfection.

NIHILISM - total rejection of established laws and institutions; extreme skepticism

NOBLESSE OBLIGE - the moral obligation of the rich to display honorable or charitable conduct.

NON COMPOS MENTIS - not of sound mind

NON SEQUITUR - conclusion that does not follow logically from the premises; a remark having no bearing on what
                       has just been said.

NUGATORY - of no real value; of no force or effect; ineffective

OBITER DICTUM - in court decisions, a statement made by way of opinion

ONUS PROBANDI - the burden of proof

OXYMORON - a figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory ideas or terms are combined, such as open
                       secret, cruel kindness, deafening silence.

POLEMIC - a person inclined to engage in argument or disputation.

PROLIX - unnecessarily long; tending to speak or write excessive length.

PUTATIVE - to suppose; consider; reputed; generally considered or deemed such

QUID PRO QUO - something in return; compensation

QUOTIDIAN - daily; occurring or recurring daily; ordinary; common

RAPPROCHEMENT - bringing together; drawing closer; reconciliation

RATIOCINATION - the process of reasoning

RECHERCHE - sought out with care; choice; too refined; too studied

SERIATIM - in a series; one after another.

SUB JUDICE - under consideration by the court; pending judgement

SYBARITE - a person devoted to luxury and pleasure.

TEMERARIOUS - recklessly or presumptuously daring.

UMBRAGE - offense; resentment; annoyance or displeasure

USUFRUCT - the right to use or benefit from something which belongs to another, short of destroying or harming it;
                       the use, enjoyment or profitable possession of something.

UXURIOUS -doting upon, irrationally fond of or affectionately over abusive toward one's wife.

VERISIMILITUDE - the appearance or semblance of truth or fact; probability; something having merely the
                       appearance of truth.

VOLTE FACE - the act of turning so as to face in the opposite direction; a complete change of attitude or opinion.

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