Advanced Vocab - Set2
for Grace and Alex
Terms
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- strenuous
- taxing to the utmost
- discretion
- the trait of judging wisely and objectively
- anthropology
- the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings
- ineptitude
- unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
- exhalation
- the act of expelling air from the lungs
- amphitheater
- an oval large stadium with tiers of seats
- meticulous
- marked by extreme care in treatment of details
- exaggerated
- enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
- gauze
- (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
- anatomy
- alternative names for the body of a human being
- torso
- the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
- dubious
- open to doubt or suspicion
- pungent
- sharp biting or acrid especially in taste or smell
- cellophane
- a transparent paper-like product that is impervious to moisture and used to wrap candy or cigarettes etc.
- scientific
- is a process of observing and study things in our world.
- cadaver
- a dead body, especially one that is to be dissected, a corpse
- scrutinized
- to read or look at very closely
- dogmatic
- stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
- thigh
- the part of the leg between the hip and the knee
- practitioners
- someone who practices a learned profession
- paralysis
- loss of the ability to move a body part
- anesthetic
- a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations
- mended
- repaired; fixed
- suburb
- a residential district located on the outskirts of a city
- scalpel
- a thin straight surgical knife used in dissection and surgery
- severely
- to a severe or serious degree
- stigmata
- physical marks in the same spots as the crucifixion wounds of Jesus
- gurney
- a metal stretcher with wheels
- haste
- the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
- plagiarism
- a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
- nick
- a small cut
- sutured
- stitching the edges of a wound
- ghastly
- shockingly repellent, gruesomely indicative of death or the dead
- scorch
- a discoloration caused by heat
- decorum
- propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners; appropriateness of behavior or conduct
- snagging
- to catch on something. ( He snagged his shirt)