The Pigman
Vocabulary words 8-1 teacher picked out.
Terms
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- varicose
- designating blood or lymph vessels that are abnormally dialated
- subliminal
- below the threshold of concious perception
- omen
- warning of what may happen in the future
- dismember
- to cut of limbs of the body
- protruding
- thrusting forward; projecting
- succint
- expressed clearly in few words
- syndrom
- an illness or disease
- strenuous
- requiring or marked by great energy; effort
- voluptuous
- sensuously pleasing or delightful
- avocation
- hobby
- compulsive
- act of being forced to do something
- nocturnal
- active at night
- secrete
- to produce a solution
- exhibiting
- to present for public view
- academic
- pertaining to areas of study that aren't primarily applied.
- deliberately
- action or thought planned out in advance
- loathe
- to regard with great dislike; hostility
- marathon
- endurance test
- lunatic
- an insane person/crazy
- terminal
- occuring at or causing the end of life
- fanatic
- a person witha n extreme and uncritical enthusiasm or zeal
- vile
- wretchedly bad
- vicious
- spiteful; malicious
- hovel
- a small house
- phantom
- something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality
- analyze
- examine
- hawk
- to spread
- congeal
- to change form a fluid to a solid by freezing or cooling
- arsenal
- a collection of weapons, or a collection of anything.
- buxom
- full-bosomed
- paranoia
- a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and projection of personal conflicts.
- philanthropy
- concern for human welfare and advancement,usually manifested by donations of money
- incandescent
- glowing or white with heat
- incongruous
- inappropriate
- logic
- reason or sound of judgement
- putrid
- rotten, disgusting
- pathetic
- inadequate
- berserk
- destructively or friendziedly violent
- intimate
- association in close personal relatives
- artillery
- munted projectile firing guns or missle launchers, as distinguished from small arms
- epic
- long narrative poem
- repress
- supress or restrain
- subsidize
- bribery with a secure cooperation.
- patron
- a regular cusomer or client that pays money
- trespass
- a wrongful entry upon lands of another
- antagonistic
- foe
- fictitious
- not real/genuine
- prevaricate
- lie
- perpetual
- everlasting
- symptoms
- a sign or an indication of a disorder or disease as a change from normal function
- commemorative
- celebrate or honor a memory
- mundane
- common; ordinary; banal; unimaginative.
- primate
- a member of the highest mammals
- hypnotized
- to be put in a state of hypnosis
- prosecute
- to seek to enforce or obtain by legal process
- disdain
- to think unworthy of notice
- corpse
- a dead body, usually human
- hovel
- a small house
- demented
- crazy, insane, or mad
- excruciating
- severe pain
- interrogating
- questioning formally
- Gestapo
- resembling the Nazi Gestapo, in the brutal supressing of opposition
- thrive
- to make steady progress
- aggravate
- to make worse; annoy
- feat
- a noble act
- erosion
- where earh is worn away by water, glaciers, winds, waves, etc.
- succint
- expressed clearly in few words
- relapse
- to fall back into illness after apparent recovery
- graft
- to transplant
- congealing
- to solidify as by freezing