1. Psephology– The scientific study of election
2. Octogenarian– One who is eight years old
3. Oasis– A shady fertile place in the desert
4. Apiary– A place where bees are kept
5. Flicker– Shine with a bright but brief or irregular light
6. Emancipation– The act of setting free from bondage of any kind
7. Epidemic– A disease that infects a large number of people in an area at same time
8. Sojourn– A brief or short stay at a place
9. Credible– That which can be believe
10. Stoic– One who is indifferent to pain or pleasure
11. Hallucinogen– A drug which makes one see things that are not really then
12. Reprieve– Providing relief
13. Altruism– The philosophy of putting another’s welfare above one’s own
14. Eccentric– A man with abnormal habits
15. Epitaph– Words inscribed on the tomb
16. Hypothesis– Proposition made as a basis for reasoning without the assumption of its truth
17. Stoicism– Indifference to pleasure and pain
18. Adolescent– No longer a child, but not yet an adult
19. Renovate– Act of making thing like new again
20. Omniscient– One who knows everything
21. Hydrophobia– Any morbid dread of water
22. Monarchy– Government by a king
23. Sacrilege– Violation of the sanctity of a sacred place
24. Coronation– The ceremony of crowning a sovereign
25. Snob– As social superiors