Lesson 5
Terms
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- fratricide
- a person who kills his or her brother
- fortitude
- mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty adversity, danger, or temptation courageously
- frumentaceous
- of the nature of or resembling wheat or other grain
- exculpate
- to clear from a charge of guilt or blame
- exodontics
- the branch of dentistry dealing with the extraction of teeth
- filial
- of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or a daughter
- extrasensory
- outside one's normal sense perception
- eject
- to drive or force out; expel as from a place or position; to evict
- fugitive
- a person who is fleeing, from prosecution, intolerable circumstances
- fallacious
- containing a fallacy; logically unsound; deceptice, misleading
- fugacious
- fleeting; transitory; falling or fading early
- ferreous
- of, resembling, or containing iron
- exhume
- to dig out of the earth (esp. a dead body)
- define
- to state or set forth the meaning of a word, phrase, etc.
- equerry
- an officer of a royal or similiar household, charged with the care of the horses
- infinite
- immeasurably great, indefintely, unlimited
- familial
- characteristic of family; appearing in individuals by heredity
- exodus
- a going out; a departure or emigration, usally of a large number of people
- facile
- 1) easily accomplished or attained; easy 2) flowing; moving effortlessly
- elide
- 1) to omit in pronunciation 2) to suppress; omit; ignore; pass over
- fraternize
- to associate in a fraternal or friendly way; to act cordially towards people
- fortissimo
- very loud
- manufacture
- the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinary esp. on a large scale
- extramural
- involving representative of more than one school
- fallacy
- a deceptive, misleading, or fasle notion, belief, etc.
- exscind
- to cut out or off
- finite
- having bounds or limits; measurable (opp. infinite)
- excoriate
- to denounce or berate severly
- equestrian
- of or pertaining to horseback riders, mounted or horseback
- extraneous
- not pertinent; irrelevent; foreign
- fallible
- liable to err, esp. in being deceived or mistaken