Vocabulary Words 4-1
Terms
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- PSYCHEDELIC
- (adj) of or relating to drugs like LSD that cause hallucinations in the mind; as though drug-caused.
- PSEUDOPOD
- (N) False "foot" or appendange to a cell.
- PROTOTYPE
- (N) First model used as a pattern for later ones.
- PROTOLANGUAGE
- (N) Assumed ancestral language that came first.
- PSEUDOSOPHISTICATION
- (n) Fake worldly knowledge or wisdom.
- RHEUMATISM
- (N) Inflammation, pain in muscles, joints, etc.
- PTERODACTYL
- (N) extinct flying reptile (wing finger).
- REACT
- Exert counteracting force (act back to a stimulus).
- PSYCHOPATH
- (n) Dangereous mentally ill or unstable person.
- RHEOMETER
- (N) Instrument to measure the flow of something.
- RETROGRESS
- (V) Move backward (usually to an inferior state).
- PYROTECHNICS
- (N) Art of making and using fireworks.
- PYROMANIAC
- (N) One who can't resist setting fires.
- RETROACTIVE
- (adj) Made effective from a date back before the rule or law was enacted.
- HELICOPTER
- (N) Aircraft with spinning rotor blades as wings.
- RHEOPHILE
- (N) Plants or animals that prefer flowing water.
- RETROSPECT
- (N) A survey or looking back at an earlier time.
- REBATE
- (V/N) Reduce sharpness/money offered back to a customer for buying a product.
- PYRE
- (N) A heap of burnable materials (to burn dead on).
- REMEDY
- (N) Medicine or treatment that heals again, cure.