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