Vocab Words from 5.21-R18
Terms
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- gratuity
- present of money in return for favor or service; tip
- ingrate
- ungrateful ("not thankful") person
- ingratiate
- establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of another
- moribund
- dying; near death
- mortification
- shame; humiliation; embarrassment
- mortify
- embarass; shame; humiliate (literally, "make dead", "kill")
- rigor mortis
- stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death (literally, "siffness of death")
- corpulent
- bulky;obese; very fat
- corpuscle
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1. blood cell (literally, "a tiny body")
2. minute particle - corpus delicti
- facts proving that a crime has been commited; body of the victim in a murder case
- esprit de corps
- spirit of a body or persons; group spirit
- habeas corpus
- writ(order) requiring a detained person to be brout to court to investigate the legality of that person's detention (literally, "you should have the body");
- adueduct
- artificial channel for conducting water over a distance
- conducive
- tending to lead to; contributive; helpful
- ductile
- able to be drwn out or hammered thin (ex: metal); easily led; doctile