Update Vocabulary with Words from Dawn

Words	Meaning, Example, Synonyms
REPUGNANT	extremely distasteful; unacceptable. "Cannibalism seems repugnant to us" Similar: abhorrent, revolting, repulsive, repellent, disgusting, offensive
MAINSTREAM	the ideas, attitudes, or activities that are shared by most people and regarded as normal or conventional. "they withdrew from the mainstream of European politics"  Similar: normal, conventional, ordinary, orthodox, conformist, accepted
PURVIEW	the scope of the influence or concerns of something . "such a case might be within the purview of the legislation"   Similar: realm, scope, domain, ambit, sphere, horizon, reach, province.
HAVOC	widespread destruction. "the hurricane ripped through Florida causing havoc" Similar: devastation, destruction, damage, desolation, depredation
ANTHROPOGENIC	(chiefly of pollution or environmental change) originating in human activity. "anthropogenic emissions of sulphur dioxide" Synonyms:  man-made, artificial,human-related, synthetic.
HAPHAZARD	lacking any obvious principle of organization. "the music business works in a haphazard fashion" Similar: random, unplanned, unsystematic, unmethodical, disorganized
BRUISE	inflict a bruise or bruises on (a part of the body) "I fell and bruised my knee" Similar: contuse, injure, mark, make black and blue, discolour, blacken
ORNAMENT	something that adds beauty: decoration. 2. addition of something that beautifies synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, embellish, and garnish.
LAMENT	express passionate grief about. "he was lamenting the death of his infant daughter" Similar: mourn, grieve (for/over), weep for, shed tears for, sorrow, wail
AESTHETIC	concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty. "the pictures give great aesthetic pleasure" Similar: decorative, ornamental, graceful, elegant, exquisite, beautiful
EMBRACE	accept (a belief, theory, or change) willingly and enthusiastically. "besides traditional methods, artists are embracing new technology" Similar: Welcome, accept, take up
DETEST	dislike intensely. "she really did detest his mockery" Similar: abhor, hate, loathe, despise, abominate, execrate, regard with disgust, feel disgust for, feel repugnance towards, feel distaste for, shrink from recoil from shudder at be unable to bear be unable to abide feel hostility to feel aversion to feel animosity to find intolerable dislike disdain have an aversion to disrelish Opposite: love admire
INCESSANT	adjective: incessant (of something regarded as unpleasant) continuing without pause or interruption. "the incessant beat of the music" Similar: ceaseless unceasing constant continual unabating interminable endless unending never-ending everlasting eternal perpetual continuous non-stop uninterrupted unbroken ongoing unremitting persistent relentless unrelenting unrelieved sustained unflagging unwearying untiring recurrent Opposite: intermittent occasional
MUDDLE	bring into a disordered or confusing state. "I fear he may have muddled the message" Similar: confuse mix up jumble jumble up disarrange disorganize disorder disturb throw into disorder get into a tangle scramble mess up jumbled in a jumble in a muddle in a mess chaotic in disorder in disarray topsy-turvy disorganized disordered disorderly out of place out of order mixed up upside-down at sixes and sevens untidy messy scrambled tangled higgledy-piggledy Opposite: be in (good) order orderly
WAGER	risk (a sum of money or valued item) against someone else's on the basis of the outcome of an unpredictable event; bet. "a total of $770,700 was wagered by fans at other sites on the track" Similar: bet gamble lay a wager place/make/lay a bet lay odds put money on stake pledge risk venture hazard chance speculate put one's shirt on punt
FISCAL	relating to government revenue, especially taxes. "monetary and fiscal policy" Similar: tax budgetary revenue financial economic monetary money pecuniary capital
STRINGENT	(of regulations, requirements, or conditions) strict, precise, and exacting. "stringent guidelines on air pollution" Similar: strict firm rigid rigorous severe harsh tough tight
SURGE	to increase suddenly and strongly
ATTRIBUTES	regard something as being caused by. "he attributed the firm's success to the efforts of the managing director" Similar: ascribe assign accredit credit impute allot allocate