Vocab Review #10-12
Vocab Review #10-12
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- Caustic
- Severely critical or sarcastic
- Purport
- To convey to the mind as the meaning or thing intended; express or imply
- Anonymous
- without any name acknowledged, as that of author, contributor, or the like
- Aperture
- an opening, as a hole, slit, crack, gap, etc
- Intercede
- to attempt to reconcile differences between two people or groups; mediate
- Insupportable
- Not endurable; unbearable; insufferable
- Emphatic
- Uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive
- Antonym
- a word opposite in meaning to another
- Prosaic
- Commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative
- Interject
- to insert between other things, as in language
- Reticule
- a small purse or bag, originally of network but later of silk, rayon, etc
- Licentious
- sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.... unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral
- Rapport
- Relationship, especially one of mutual trust or emotional affinity
- port
- Carry
- ure
- State of, act, process, rank
- Interlude
- an intervening episode, period, space, etc
- Licit
- legal; lawful; legitimate; permissible
- Licentiate
- a person who has received a license, as from a university, to practice an art or profession
- Fledgling
- an inexperienced person.
- Correspondent
- a person employed by a news agency, periodical, television network, etc., to gather, report, or contribute news, articles, and the like regularly from a distant place
- Articulate
- using language easily and fluently; having facility with words; expressed, formulated, or presented with clarity and effectiveness
- Overture
- an opening or initiating move toward negotiations, a new relationship, an agreement, etc.; a formal or informal proposal or offer
- Import
- Possessing Importance; significance
- Correspondingly
- identical in all essentials or respects: similar in position, purpose, form
- Despondent
- feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom
- Unresponsive
- not susceptible to suggestion or influence
- Cognizant
- Having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception
- spond, spons
- Pledge, answer
- inter
- Between, among
- cule, icle, ling
- Very small
- Incognito
- Having one's identity concealed, as under an assumed name, esp. to avoid notice or formal attentions; with the real identity concealed
- lic, licit
- Legal, to Permit
- Tenure
- the period or term of holding something
- Agnosy
- State of not knowing; ignorance
- gnosi, cognosc
- Know
- ic
- Nature of; like
- Miniscule
- Very small; tiny
- Anomy
- a state or condition of individuals or society characterized by a breakdown or absence of social norms and values, as in the case of uprooted people
- Anomaly
- an incongruity or inconsistency... an odd, peculiar, or strange condition, situation, quality, etc.
- Prognostic
- Predictive of something in the future
- Censure
- to criticize or reproach in a harsh or vehement manner
- an
- Not, absence of
- Metaphorical
- Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another
- Licensure
- the granting of licenses, esp. to engage in professional practice
- Intervene
- to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate