fic

Usage

• munificent

  A munificent person is extremely generous, especially with money.

• edifice

  An edifice is a large or impressive building, such as a church, palace, temple, or fortress.

• edification

  If something is done for someone's edification, it is done to benefit that person by teaching them something that improves or enlightens their knowledge or character.

• prolific

  Something or someone that is prolific is highly fruitful and so produces a lot of something.

• maleficent

  Something or someone that is maleficent deliberately tries to cause harm or evil.

• pontificate

  When someone pontificates, they give their opinions in a heavy-handed way that shows they think they are always right.

• beatific

  A beatific expression, look, or smile shows great peace and happiness—it is angelic and saintly.

• soporific

  Something soporific makes you feel sleepy or drowsy.

• aficionado

  If someone is an aficionado of something, such as soccer, they like it and know a lot about it; therefore, they are a true fan of it.

• artifice

  When you employ artifice, you use clever tricks and cunning to deceive someone.

• fortification

  A fortification is a structure or building that is used in defense against an invading army.

• gratification

  When you have a feeling of gratification, you experience satisfaction or pleasure about a job well done.

• ramification

  A ramification from an action is a result or consequence of it—and is often unanticipated.

• ratification

  The ratification of a measure or agreement is its official approval or confirmation by all involved.

• deficit

  A deficit occurs when a person or government spends more money than has been received.

• beneficial

  Something beneficial is helpful, useful, or valuable in some way.

• significant

  Something that is significant is important or meaningful.

• specific

  Something specific is only one thing of many in a group.

• sufficient

  If you have a sufficient amount of something, you have enough of it or as much as needed.

• magnificent

  Something that is magnificent is wonderful or really great.

• amplification

  addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail

• artificer

  someone who is the first to think of or make something

• artificial

  contrived by art rather than nature

• beneficent

  doing or producing good

• beneficiary

  having or arising from a benefice

• certificate

  present someone with a certificate

• certification

  the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on

• coefficient

  a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic

• deficiency

  the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable

• deficient

  inadequate in amount or degree

• disqualification

  unfitness that bars you from participation

• diversification

  the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered)

• efficacious

  marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect

• efficient

  being effective without wasting time or effort or expense

• falsification

  any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something

• honorific

  conferring or showing honor or respect

• inefficiently

  in an inefficient manner

• justification

  something (such as a fact or circumstance) that shows an action to be reasonable or necessary

• magnification

  the act of expanding something in apparent size

• maleficence

  doing or causing evil

• modification

  the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)

• mollification

  a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered

• notification

  an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative

• nullification

  the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress

• office

  place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed

• officiate

  act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding

• orifice

  an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity

• pacific

  relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean

• pacification

  the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined

• personification

  a person who represents an abstract quality

• proficient

  having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

• purification

  the act of cleaning by getting rid of impurities

• qualification

  an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something

• revivification

  bringing again into activity and prominence

• sacrifice

  endure the loss of

• scientific

  of or relating to the practice of science

• specification

  a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work

• stratification

  the act or process or arranging persons into classes or social strata

• suffice

  be sufficient

• terrific

  very great or intense

• unification

  an occurrence that involves the production of a union

• unofficial

  not having official authority or sanction

• versification

  a metrical adaptation of something (e.g., of a prose text)

• vilification

  slanderous defamation