VCR E - L6
Terms
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- CUBO
- (L)to lie down
- INCUMBO
- (L) to recline
- incubus
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n. 1. a deamon believed to attack sleeping women by night
2. a nightmare; a haunting, opressive burden or thought - incumbent
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n. a person who holds an office or position
adj. 1. already holding an office or position
2. required as a duty or obligation (often used with on) - recumbent
- adj. reclining; lying down
- succumb
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v. 1. to yield; to give up, especially to a powerful force or desire
2. to die - HUPO
- (G) under, beneath
- hypochondria
- n. a psychological disorder characterized by the illusory conviction that one is ill or in pain, or likely to become so
- hypothesis
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n. 1. a theory or explanation that leads to further investigation for proof or disproof
2. an assumption on which a conclusion or decision is based - KATA
- (G) down
- cataclysm
- n. a disaster or catastrophe on such a large scale that biological, environmental, or cultural elements are permanently altared or irreparably lost to the earth
- catapult
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n. 1. an ancient mechanical device for hurling missiles
2. a modern mechanism for launching aircraft from the deck of a ship
v. to hurl or launch suddenly; to spring up - SUB
- (L) under
- subjective
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adj. 1. concentrating on the self in the expression of feelings and perceptions
2. relation to personal opinions and thought processes rather than factual information or universal experience - sublimate
- v. to turn aside a coarser, often sexual, impulse in favor of a higher moral, social, or cultural activity
- suborn
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v. 1. to induce a person in secret to commit a misdeed or crime
2. to induce someone to give a false testimony - subterfuge
- n. an artifice, device, or evasion to hide or avoid something, or to escape an outcome
- VERITAS
- (L) truth
- verisimilitude
- n. a thing or a quality that appears true or real
- verity
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n. 1. the condition or quality of being true or accurate
2. a belief, principal, or statement expressing some basic human truth - aver
- v. to affirm; to declare or attest to positively or dogmatically