vocab 4
Terms
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- postmortem
- 1. an examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy 2. an analysis of something that is over
- mortify
- 1. to shame 2. to discipline oneself by denial
- nascent
- emerging, coming into existence
- euthanasia
- the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal, mercy killing
- pedant
- 1. a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding 2. a scholarly show off
- orthopedics
- branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement
- pedagogue
- a teacher
- essence
- 1. the basic element; the identifying characteristic 2. a substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug 3. a perfume
- naive
- 1. childlike, unsophisticated. 2. gullible
- puerile
- childish, immature,
- entity
- something that has a real or independent existence
- innate
- possessed at birth, inborn
- renaissance
- 1. a rebirth, renewal 2. (cap) a revival of humanism in Europe (14th-16th century)
- moribund
- about to die or end
- nonentity
- 1. a person or thing of no importance 2. something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination