English Final
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- protean
- displaying great diversity, able to take on many forms
- induce
- bring about, influence
- hector
- to harass bully
- ex post facto
- done/made/formulated after the fact
- perquisite
- privelege ontop of base salary
- son
- sound
- cap/cep/cip
- take seize
- odessey
- long journey
- dragons teeth
- seeds of conflict
- ambient
- present on all sides
- approbation
- a formal/official act of approval
- dys
- bad difficult
- diffraction
- bending of light
- auditor
- formally examines financial accounts
- homo/hom
- same
- hedonism
- life based on pleasure and happiness
- recrimination
- a retaliatory accusation
- ag
- do go lead drive
- cursory
- hastily, carelessly done
- voracious
- huge appetite, very eager
- affidavit
- sworn written statement
- evangelism
- enthusiastic preaching, crusading zeal
- post
- after behind
- hostel
- a supervised place for young travelers to stay overnight
- aud
- to do with hearing
- hosp/host
- host, guest
- de jure
- by right of law
- hostage
- person given or held to ensure that an agreement or demand is kept or fulfilled
- corpus delicti
- physical evidence, dead body
- err
- to wander stray
- tachometer
- measures speed of rotation
- malevolent
- having/showing intense ill will or hatred
- requisition
- demand made with proper authority
- cred
- to believe
- alleviate
- to lighten lessen or relieve
- gravitas
- great or dignified seriousness
- probity
- absolute honesty/uprightness
- venereal
- associated w/std
- rectify
- to fix revise
- spartan
- simple, strict self discipline
- fin
- end boundary
- orth/ortho
- straight right true
- de facto
- being in practice or effect, but not formally recognized; actual
- therm/thermo
- warm
- levity
- lack of appropriate seriousness
- protracted
- continued extended
- symmetrical
- balanced
- prototype
- original model, first working design
- enamored
- inflamed with love
- alter ego
- trusted friend, opposite side of personality
- ven/vent
- come
- homonym
- pronounced/spelled same, diff meaning
- aberrant
- straying from normal
- prim
- first
- orthopedics
- fixing deformitys of the skeleton
- postmodern
- movement in art architecure or lit against modernism
- rebellion
- open defiance and opposition to a person or thing in authority
- primordial
- first created; existing from beginning
- malign
- to make harsh/misleading statements about
- affinity
- sympathy attraction relationship
- homogenous
- uniform structure, same/similar kind
- appease
- to make peaceful/quiet; to calm, satisfy
- hypocrisy
- pretending to be what one is not
- eugenic
- improving breeding
- disseminate
- to spread widely, sowing seeds
- tract
- drag draw
- midas touch
- talent of making money in every venture
- fiduciary
- having to do with confidence or trust
- postmortem
- occuring after death, following the event
- cata
- down
- thermal
- relating to/caused by heat
- orthodox
- established beleifs/rules
- acquisitive
- greedy
- nestor
- a senior figure or leader
- dyslexia
- bad ability to read or use language
- ambi/amphi
- on both sides, around
- perfidy
- faithlessness disloyalty
- deplete
- to use up
- hospice
- place or program to care for terminally ill
- catacomb
- conected underground graves
- metric
- based on the metric system
- jac/jec
- throw hurl
- decriminalize
- to remove/reduce criminal status of
- pact
- agreement between two or more people, or groups, a treaty
- rog
- to ask
- inimical
- hostile, unfriendly, harmful
- errant
- wandering aimlessly
- modus operandi
- usual way of doing something
- retraction
- taking back withdrawal
- polyphony
- music with two independent but harmonious melodies
- fid
- faith
- siren
- temptress with sweetness
- seduction
- temptation to wrong
- pacify
- to soothe anger or agitation; to subdue by armed action
- quis
- to seek obtain
- ped
- foot
- eu
- well
- replete
- abundantly filled
- arrogate
- seize without justification
- dissipate
- spread to the point of vannishing, spend wastefully
- antecedent
- preceding event, ancestor
- concession
- giving in, an acknowlegement, admission
- catatonic
- unusual lack of movement
- stentorian
- loud, rich in sound
- gravity
- importance seriousness dignity
- polymer
- 2 + molecules combine to make a molecule with repeating structural units
- thermocouple
- measuring temp. by the ways metals respond to heat
- prot/proto
- first in time first formed
- prerogative
- exclusive right power privalege
- posthumous
- after ones death
- gravid
- pregnant
- procrustean
- disregarding individual differences
- primiparous
- bearing a first offspring
- obsequious
- exessively submissive obedient flattering
- bona fide
- authentic genuine
- vor
- to eat
- ephemeral
- lasting a day only
- pacifist
- person opposed to war or violence
- catalyst
- agent of change
- protocol
- code of rules of behavior, original copy
- palladium
- precious silver-white metal
- creditable
- praise worthy
- paramour
- secret lover
- olympian
- detached lofty superior
- accede
- to give in, give consent
- epitaph
- inscription on tomb
- deflect
- to turn aside
- flexor
- a bending muscle
- calypso
- folk song style
- sec/sequ
- to follow
- duc
- to lead
- hypo/hyp
- under beneath down below normal
- stygian
- dark, dank, gloomy, forbidding
- hades
- home of dead in greek
- ced/cess
- to go proceed
- polychromatic
- many colors
- dyspeptic
- indigestion, irritable
- poly
- many
- credulity
- willingness to believe on the basis of little evidence
- lev
- light
- a fortiori
- all the more certainly
- flect/flex
- to bend
- ple
- to fill
- precursor
- one that goes before and indicates coming of another
- homophone
- pronounced same, diff meaning/spelling
- consequential
- resulting, important
- bellicose
- warlike, aggressive, quarrelsome
- dis
- apart
- homologous
- developing from same/similar ancestor
- ad hoc
- formed for a particular purpose or immidiate needs
- ultrasound
- use of sound above hearing limits to diagnose
- incarnation
- physical form, a trait to a marked degree
- jovial
- jolly
- cicerone
- a guide
- epiphyte
- plant that grows on another
- rectitude
- moral integrity/correctness of procedure
- rector
- leader of congregation/head of school
- Bell
- war
- malicious
- desiring to cause pain,injury to another
- grav
- heavy weighty serious
- apollonian
- harmonious ordered rational calm
- crim
- fault, crime, accusation
- rect
- straight right
- diffident
- lacking confidence, timid
- advent
- a coming or arrival
- inhospitable
- not welcoming or generous
- metr
- measure
- discursive
- passing from one topic to another
- delphic
- unclear
- a posteriori
- derived by facts
- disprove
- refute, show something is not what it was said to be
- belligerence
- aggressiveness, combativeness
- venturesome
- inclined to seek out risk
- primal
- original primitive first in importance
- augean stable
- marked by accumulation of filth or corruption
- ad hominem
- attack on character rather than arguments
- reprobate
- a person of thoroughly bad character
- criminology
- study of crime, criminals, law enforcement, punishment
- hypochondriac
- overly concerned with disease
- resonance
- echoing of sound, variety in sound
- credence
- belief
- incriminate
- to show evidence of involvement in a crime
- incipient
- starting to come into being/become evident
- pyrrhic victory
- costly victory
- expedite
- to speed up process of
- genuflect
- to kneel on one knee then rise
- carn
- flesh
- ambiguous
- doubtful, uncertain, unclear because understandable in more than one way
- orthography
- language study concerned with words and spelling
- carnage
- large slaughter
- dionysian
- frenzied orgiastic
- a priori
- derived by self evedent proposisitons
- abrogate
- to abolish or ingnore
- expedient
- suitable for bringing about a desired result; not ness fair or right
- am/im
- to love
- stoic
- indifferent to pleasure or pain
- erratic
- having no fixed course, inconsistant
- ep/epi
- upon besides attached to over outer after
- erroneous
- mistaken
- inflection
- change in pitch tone or loudness of voice
- ambivalent
- holding opposite feelings at same time
- curriculum vitae
- resume prepared for academic job
- hypothetical
- imagining for a purpose, example
- gravitate
- to be drawn toward something
- amicable
- friendly, peaceful
- prodigal
- spendthrift, wastefully extravigant
- dysfunctional
- operating in an impaired or abnormal way
- implement
- to put into practice
- dissension
- dissagreement in oppinion
- sibyl
- female prophet or fortune teller
- intractable
- not easily led handled taught controlled
- odometer
- measured distance
- mal
- bad
- epithet
- descriptive word in place of name (nickname)
- complement
- counterpart
- ante meridiem
- before noon
- provenance
- origin or source
- sybaratic
- luxurious sensual way of life
- creed
- statement of belief, set of guiding principles
- bacchanalian
- frenzied orgiastic
- rectilinear
- to do with straight lines
- carnal
- bodily pleasures
- ante
- before in front of
- impediment
- interferes with movement or progress
- thermonuclear
- changes in nucleuses of low atomic weight atoms that take high temp. to begin
- pac/peas
- agree, peace
- audition
- trial performance
- leavening
- something that lightens or raises
- caveat emptor
- buyer be ware
- prob/prov
- prove proof honesty integrity
- elevate
- to raise
- inquisition
- harsh questioning
- auditory
- related to hearing
- curr/curs
- to run
- mercurial
- rapid unpredictable changes in mood
- conjecture
- guess
- sonic
- speed of sound in air
- dissonant
- jumbled, clashing, disagreeing
- antebellum
- existing before a war
- primogeniture
- rights of the eldest son
- penelope
- modest house wife
- thermocline
- between cold deep water and warm shallow water