Semester 1 Finals Vocab
Terms
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- improvise
- compose, recite, or sing on the spur of the movement
- aggregate
- gathered together in one mass
- transpose
- change the relative order of
- synchronize
- cause to agree in time
- epidemic
- affecting many people in an area at the same time; out break of a disease affecting many people at the same time
- odometer
- instrument attached to a vehicle for measure of distance traversed
- autopsy
- medical examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death
- panacea
- remedy for all ills
- heterogeneous
- differing in kind
- impending
- threatening to occur
- depose
- bear witness; put out of office
- elucidate
- make clear
- simulate
- give the appearance of
- desolate
- making lonely; left alone
- aristocrat
- advocate of aristocracy; member of aristocracy
- mandate
- territory entrusted to administration of another country;authoritative command
- mania
- madness; excessive fondness
- dissolution
- act of breaking up into component parts
- luminous
- shining
- unilateral
- one-sided
- translucent
- letting light through
- lateral
- of or pertaining to the side
- definitive
- serving to end an unsettled matter
- confine
- keeping within limits
- emancipate
- set free
- symmetry
- correspondence in measurements, shapes, on opposite sides of dividing the line
- abound
- be well supplied; be plentiful
- gregarious
- fond of being with others
- homogenize
- make uniform
- pending
- waiting to be settle; until
- authentic
- genuine
- genesis
- birth of coming into being
- soliloquy
- speech made to oneself when alone
- assimilate
- make similar; take in and incorporate as one's own
- barometer
- instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure
- pandemonium
- wild uproar
- regenerate
- cause to be born again
- pedagogue
- teacher of children
- verify
- truth
- autonomy
- right of self-government
- veracity
- truthfulness
- inundate
- flood
- orthopedic
- having to do with the correction and prevention of deformities, especially in children
- redundant
- exceeding what is necessary
- append
- attach
- solvent
- substance, usually liquid, able to dis-solve another substance; able to pay all one's legal debts
- literacy
- having to do with letters or literature
- affinity
- sympathy
- autocrat
- ruler exercising self-deluded, absolute power
- orthodox
- generally accepted, especially in a region
- absolute
- free from control or restriction
- orthodontist
- dentist specializing in the straightening and adjusting of teeth
- plutocracy
- government or country governed by the rich
- demagogue
- political leader who stirs up the people for peresonal advantage
- inherent
- belonging by nature
- anachronism
- error in chronology or time order
- collateral
- situated at the side
- automaton
- robot
- chronicle
- historical account of events in the order of time
- adhere
- stick
- fluctuate
- flow like a wave
- veritable
- true
- envision
- foresee
- degenerate
- sink to a lower class or standard