Chapter 5 words
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- Congragulate(v)
- Express one's pleasure to another person at one person's success
- gracious(adj)
- Pleasent; courteous; kindly
- Grateful(adj)
- Feeling or expressing gratitude; thankful; obliged
- Gratify(v)
- Give or be a source of pleasure or satisfaction
- Gratis(adv)
- without charge or payment fee
- gratitude(n)
- thankfulness
- Gratuitous(adj)
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1. Given freely; gratis
2. Unwarranted, as a gratuitous remark - Gratuity(n)
- Present or money in return for a favor or service; tip
- Ingrate(n)
- ungrateful person
- Ingratiate(v)
- Establish oneself in the favor or good graces of another
- Immortal(adj)
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1. Not subject to death
2. Not subject to oblivion - Immortality(adj)
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1. Eternal life
2. Lasting time - Moribound(adj)
- dying; near death
- Mortal(n)
- Human being; person; individual
- Mortality(n)
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1.Death rate
2.Mortal nature - Mortician(n)
- Undertaker
- Mortification(n)
- Shame; humiliation; embarrassment
- Mortify(v)
- Embarrass;shame;humiliate
- Mortuary(n)
- funeral home
- Rigor mortis(n)
- Stifness of the body that sets in several hours after death
- Corporal
- Bodily, as corporal punishment
- Corporation(n)
- body authorized by law to carry on an activity with the rights and duties of a single person
- Corps(n)
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1. Organized body of persons
2. Branch of the military, as the Marine Corps - Corpse(n)
- dead body
- Corpulent(adj)
- bulky; obese; very fat
- Corpuscle
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1. Blood cell
2. Minute particle - Corpus Delecti(n)
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1. Facts proving that a crime has been committed
2. Body of the victim in a murder case - Espirit de corps(n)
- Spirit of a body or persons; group spirit
- Haebeas corpus(n)
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1. Order requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that person's detention
2. Right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment - Incoporate(v)
- Combine as to form one body
- Aqueduct(n)
- Artificial channel for conducting water over a distance
- Conducive(n)
- Tending to lead to; contributive; helpful
- Conduct(v)
- lead; guide; escort
- Deduction(n)
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1. Taking away; subtraction
2. Reasoning from the general to the particular - Duct(n)
- tube or channel for conducting liquid, air, etc
- Ductile(adj)
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1. Able to be drawn out or hammered thin
2. Easily led; docile - Induce(n)
- lead on; move by persuasion
- Induct(v)
- admit as a member; initiate
- Induction(n)
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1. Ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation
2. Reasoning from the particular to the general - Seduction(n)
- Enticement; leading astray into wrongdoing
- Consecutive(adj)
- Following in regular; successive
- Consequence(n)
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1. That which follows logically; result
2. Importance, as a person of consequence - Execute(v)
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1. Follow through to completion; result
2. Put to death - Inconsequential(adj)
- Of no consequence; trivial; unimportant
- Prosecute(v)
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1. Follow to the end or until finished
2. Conduct legal proceedings against; sue - Sequel(n)
- Something that follows; continuation; consequence; outcome
- Sequence(n)
- The foillowing of one thing after another; succession; orderly strewn
- Sequential(adj)
- Arranged in a sequence; serial
- Concur(v)
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1. Agree; be of the same opinion
2. Happen together; coincide - Concurrent(adj)
- running together; occuring at the same time
- Current(adj)
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1. Running or flowing
2. Now in progress; prevailing - Curriculum(n)
- Course of study in a school or college
- Cursive(adj)
- Running or flowing(said of handwriting in which the letters are joined)
- Cursory(adj)
- Running over hastily: superficially done, as a cursory glance
- Discursive(adj)
- Wandering from one topic to another; rambling; digressive
- Excursion(n)
- Going out or forth; expedition
- Incur(v)
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1. Meet with something undesirable
2. Bring up oneself - Incursion(n)
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1. A rushing into
2. Hostile invasion; raid - Precursor(n)
- Forerunner; predecessor
- Recur(v)
- happen again
- Agressive(adj)
- Disposed to attack; militant; assertive; pushing
- Egress(n)
- Means of going out; exit
- Gradation(n)
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1. A change by steps or stages
2. Acto of grading - Grade(n)
- step;stage;degree;rating
- Gradient(n)
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1. Rate at which a road, railroad track, temperatire, voltage, etc rises
2. Slope - Gradual(adj)
- step-by-step;bit by bit
- Graduate(v)
- Complete all the steps of a course and receive a diploma or degree
- Graduated(adj)
- Arranged in regular steps, stages, or degrees
- Progressive(adj)
- Going forward to something considered better
- Regressive
- Disposed to move backward;retrogressive
- Retrograde(adj)
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1. Going backward
2. Becoming worse - Retrogressive(n)
- Act of going from a better to worse state
- Transgress(v)
- Step beyond the limits or barriers; go beyond; break the law
- Biped(n)
- Two-footed animal
- Centipede(n)
- Wormlike animal with one pair of legs on most of its segments
- Expedite(v)
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1. Facilitate
2. Accelerate or speed up - Impede(v)
- Hinder; obstruct; block
- Impediment(n)
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1. Hinderence; obstacle
2. Defect - Millipede(n)
- Wormlike animal with two pairs of legs on most of its segments
- Pedal(n)
- Lever acted on by foot
- Pedestal(n)
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1. Support or foot of a column or statue
2. Foundation - Contact(n)
- Touching or meeting; association; connection
- Contiguous(adj)
- Touching, in physical contact; adjoining
- Contingent(adj)
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1. Dependent on something else
2. Accidental - Intact(adj)
- Untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole
- Intangible(adj)
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1. Not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch
2. Hard to grasp or define exactly - Tact(n)
- Sensitive to mental perception of what is appropriate on a given occasion
- Tactful(adj)
- Having or showing tact
- Tactile(adj)
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1. Pertaining to the sense of touch
2. Tangible - Tangent(adj)
- Touching
- Tangent(n)
- Line or surace meeting curved line or surface at one point, but not intersecting it
- Tangential(adj)
- Merely touching; slightly touching; digressive
- Apprehend(v)
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1. Seize or take into custody
2. Understand - Apprehensive(adj)
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1. Quick to understand or grasp
2. Fearful of what may come; anxious - Comprehensible(adj)
- Able to be grasped mentally; understandable
- Comprehensive(adj)
- Including very much; extensive
- Prehensile(adj)
- Adapted for seizing as a prehensile claw
- Reprehend(v)
- Find fault with; rebuke; reprimand; censure
- Reprehensible(adj)
- Deserving of censure; culpable
- Abject(adj)
- Sunk or cast down to a low condition; downtrodden; deserving contempt
- Conjecture(n)
- a guess; supposition; inference
- Dejected(adj)
- Downcast; discouraged; depressed
- Eject(v)
- Throw out or expel;evict
- Inject(v)
- Force or introduce a liquid, a remark. etc
- Interject(v)
- Throw in between; insert; interpose
- Projectile(n)
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1. Object designed to be shot forward
2. Anything thrown forward - Reject(v)
- Refuse to take; discrard
- Subject(v)
- Force someone to udnergo something unpleasant or inconvenient; expose; make liable to
- Aversion(n)
- Feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to turn away from it; strong dislike; antipathy
- Avert(v)
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1. Turn away
2. Prevent; avoid - Controversy(n)
- Dispute; debate; quarrel
- Diversion(n)
- Entertainment; amusement
- Divert(v)
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1. Turn aside
2. Amuse; entertain - Extrovert(n)
- One more interesected in matters outside the shelf than in one;s own thoughts or feelings
- Inadvertently(adv)
- Without turning one's mind to the matter at hand; carelessly; unintentionally
- Incontrovertible(adj)
- Not able to be disputed; not open to question
- Introvert(v)
- Turn inward
- Invert(v)
- Turn upside down
- Obverse(n)
- Side turned toward the observer; therefore the front of a coin, medal
- Perverse(adj)
- Turned away from what is right or good; corrupt; wrongheaded
- Pervert(v)
- Turn away from right or truth; give a wrong meaning to
- Revert(v)
- Return; go back
- Versatile(adj)
- Able to turn with ease from one thing to another
- Verse(n)
- Line of poetry after a fized number of syllables, the poet has to begin a new line
- Vertigo(n)
- Condition in which one feels that one's surroundings are turning about dizziness
- Commitment(n)
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1. Cosignment to prison or a mental institution
2. Pledge - Demise(n)
- death
- Emissary(n)
- Person sent out on a mission
- Emit(v)
- Send out; Give off
- Intermittent(adj)
- Coming and going at intervals
- Missile(n)
- Weapon capable of being propelled to a hit a distant object
- Missive(n)
- Written message sent; a letter
- remiss(adj)
- Negligent; careless; lax
- Remission(n)
- Period of lessening or dissappearance of the symptoms of a disease
- Remit(v)
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1. Send money due
2. Forgive - Circumlocution(n)
- Roundabout way of speaking
- Colloquy(n)
- A talking together; conference or conversation
- Elocution(n)
- Art of speaking out or reading effectively in public
- Eloquent(adj)
- Speaking with force and fluency; movingly expressive
- Grandiloquent(adj)
- Using lofty or pompous words; bombastic
- Interlocutor(n)
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1. Questioner
2. One who participates in a conversation - Obloquy(n)
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1. A speaking against; censure
2. Public reproach - Auriferous(adj)
- Bearing or yeilding gold
- Coniferous(adj)
- Bearing cones
- Odoriferous(adj)
- Yielding an odor, usually fragrant
- Pestiferous(adj)
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1. Infected with or bearing disease; pestilent
2. Evilq - Proliferous(adj)
- Producing new growth rapidly and extensively
- Somniferous(adj)
- Bearing or inducing sleep
- Vociferous(adj)
- Producing a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy