Recent 12 Months Editorial Challenging Vocabulary

Leaning, sloping, or showing a noticeable bias or preference toward one side

Long, careful, and formal discussions conducted by a group before making major decisions

Creating, shaping, or developing something through steady effort and negotiations

Intense anger, wrath, or irritation

Reputation, importance, or high status gained through growth and achievement

Causing confusion or making something harder to analyze by introducing hidden or contradictory influences

To expand into a wider variety of forms, products, or technological types

The ability of individuals to move freely and easily from one place to another

A deep, immeasurable chasm, or figuratively a catastrophic and bottomless state of ruin and despair

A very steep cliff, or figuratively a critical situation bordering immediately on complete disaster

The act of severely choking, cutting off, or squeezing vital resources and financial flows to cripple an entity

Reluctant acceptance or passive agreement to something without protest

The right or condition of self-government, independence, and freedom from external control

An incarnation, distinct phase, or manifested form of an entity or governing regime

Relating to rigid, complicated, and official administrative procedures of government

Granted, bestowed, or given (a title, power, right, or honor) upon someone

The act of depriving someone of land, property, or customary rights

Established, created, or built as a legal safeguard or structure

Dishonorable, shameful, or lacking moral principles

Relating to the philosophy, science, or foundational principles of law