Vocab Word Lists 4-6
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- Abstemious
- eating and drinking in moderation
- Brahma
- The God of creation in Hindhuism, also the first god of the triad
- Deprecatory
- Disapproving or critical; expressing critical remarks
- Enervate
- To weaken or distroy the vitality of someone or something
- Glower
- Look at someone with sullen anger
- Holocaust
- The mass murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis
- Jukes and Kalikaks
- Famous criminal families
- Loquacious
- Tending to talk a great deal
- Nonpareil
- Somebody or something without an equal
- Pisces
- A zodiac constellation of the northern hemisphere, the Fish
- Quotidian
- Of the most ordinary kind; occurring daily
- Scatology
- Vulgarlanguage related tone excretory functions as made famous in Gulliver's travels
- The seven virtues and vices
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Humility, meekness, charity, chastity, moderation, zeal, generosity
Pruide, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, sloth, avarice - Tarantula
- A large hairy spider that feeds on invertebrates and amphibians
- Usurp
- Seize something without the right to do so
- Verdi
- Itialin composer of operas includiang Traviata and Aida
- Wrought
- Made in a skillful or decorative way
- Xenolith
- A fragmant of rock that is different in origin from ingenous rocks in which it occurs
- Yarmulke
- A small round cap worn by Jewish males
- Zydeco
- A style of dance music originating in Louisiana
- Acumen
- The ability to make quick accurate judgments about situations or people
- Basque
- People of unknown origin living in Northwestern Spain
- Dendrochronology
- The study of the annual growth of tree rings as a way of dating wooden remains
- flagellate
- To whip someone for sexual or religous purposes
- Heimlich Manuever
- Emergency method for treating choking that uses an upward thrust below the chest to expel food from the wind pipe
- Impuissance
- Lack of power or effectiveness; weakness
- Jejune
- Boring or uninteresting; lacking maturity or sophistication
- Hat trick
- Three goals scored by the same player in a hockey game
- Malapropism
- Misuse of words through confustion with a similar sounding word
- Narwhal
- Small arctic whale about 20 feet long with a spotted body, short flippers, and a long ivory tusk
- Opthamology
- Branch of medicine that is concerned with the treatment of the eyes
- Parabola
- Curve formed the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side
- Rank and File
- Majority of a group, especially all of the members with no power
- Sacagawea
- Indian guide who went on Louis and Clark Expedition
- Snowbirds
- Elderly person who spends the winter in a warm climate
- Taj Mahal
- White marble masoleum in northern India, completed in memory of Mumtaz Mughal, the wife of emperor Shah Jahon
- Utopia
- Ideal and perfect place where everyone lives in harmony
- Variance
- Difference between expectations and results
- Vortex
- A whirling mass of somethings that draws everything towards its center
- Yin and Yang
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Yin is passive, dark, feminine, and associated with night
Yang is active, light, masculine and corresponds to day - Antebellum
- Before the Civil War
- Bowdlerize
- Remove parts of a literary work deemed indecent
- Virginia Dare
- First child of English parents to be born in America, but disappeared at the lost colony of Roanoke
- Fractious
- Irritable and likely to complain or misbehave
- Impalpable
- Not capable of being perceived by the senses
- Jenny Lind
- Famous Sweedish opera singer, alto, who was P.T Barnum's star attraction
- Lilliputian
- A person or thing that unusually small in height
- Metamorphosis
- A complete or marked transformation in physical form, substance, or structure
- Oxidize
- To combine or react with oxygen
- Parkinson's Law
- The observation that work always expands to fill the time allotted for it
- Paradigmatic
- Typical example of something
- Quagmired
- Caught in an awkward, complicated, or dangerous position with little hope of escape
- Reciproicity
- Mutual relationship between people involving the exchange of goods, sevices, favors especially between nations
- Reveille
- The sound of a bugle to awaken and summon military personel
- Scrimshaw
- A carved or engraved object in whale bones made originally by North American whalers
- Thermodynamics
- Branch of physics that deals with the conversion of energy and heat
- Verdure
- The green color associated with lush vegetation
- Wheedle
- To coax or persuade by flattery, guile, etc
- Yonapatawhpha
- Fictional county in Mississippi created by William Faulkner
- Zodiac
- Narrow band in the sky where the movements of major planets, sun, and moon take place