11h vocab list 1and 2
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- root- epi
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- unrequited quote
- "All love is ____. All of it."
- eponymous quote
- SPOONISMS, BRAILLE
- paradigm quote
- Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new ____ is like the man wearing inverting lenses.
- altercation quote
- "Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones placed his status with the NFL in jeopardy by getting involved in an _____ early Wednesday"
- root- para
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- peripheral quote
- "I was a ____ visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side." - Steven wright
- ephemeral
- adj- lasting for a very short time (literaly for one day); transitory, not everlasting (epi)
- paradigm
- noun- an example used to illustrate and process, pattern, or concept (para)
- parameter
- a constant that has variable values and is used to determine other values (para)
- peripheral
- adj- pertaining to the boundry of an area 2. of minor importance
- interpolate quote
- "Eighteenth century acting companies freely ____ed new speaches into plays- even Shakespeare's."
- juxtapose
- verb- to place side by side (positum)
- epitaph quote
- Let no man write my ____ ... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my ____ be written.
- parameter quote
- A constant in an equation that varies in other equations of the same general form is a _______.
- internecine quote
- "We've noted from day one that the fighting is actually an ______ war over land and power between Uzbek al Qaeda and their Taliban allies."
- paragon quote
- "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the _____ of animals!" - shakespeare : )
- requiem
- noun- a mass or service for the repose of departed souls; music, poetry, or other composition for the dead (quies)
- root- prope
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- altercation
- noun- a noisy quarrel (alter)
- epitaph
- noun- an inscription on a tombstone in memory of the person buried there, a breif (literary) summary of a dead person's life
- eponymous
- adj- refering to the name of a person, a mythical being, or a literary frame (epi)
- antithesis
- an exact opposite, a complete contrast 2. a rhetorical form juxtaposing contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure
- interpose quote
- "Finish each day before you begin the next, and _____ a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance."
- peripatetic quote
- Theophrastus, the Greek Peripatetic philosopher, said: "Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend"
- interpolate
- verb- to insert or add something between other parts, especially in a text or written work 2. to introduce material that severely alters a text or falsifies it (inter)
- abstruse
- adj- difficult to understand, complex
- paragon
- a model of excellence or perfection (para)
- antithesis quote
- Christmas is the _____ of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
- epitome
- noun- a typical representation of something, a person who embodies a quality (epi)
- requiem quote
- "We should profane the service of the dead To sing a ____ and such rest to her As to peace-parted souls"
- epithet
- a word or phrase used positvely or negatively that characterize a person or thing, added to or replacing a name
- peripatetic
- adj- walking or traveling about
- interloper quote
- "The East Wind, an _________ in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab."
- acquiesce
- verb- to agree or consent without any objection (quies)
- propinquity quote
- "A person's mere _____ to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person."
- juxtapose quote
- "Gerard Manely Hopkins ______s contrasting words like "swift, slow, sweet, sour"- to illustrate the marvel of the world's diverse forms and textures"
- root- tithenal
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- anathema
- a person or thing detested and shunned 2. a curse, especially a formal church ban or excommunication (tithenal)
- acquiesce quote
- "Well, it is earth with me; silence resumes her reign: / I will be patient and proud, and soberly _____."
- paradox
- a statement that seems contradictiory but contains the truth or valid deduction (para)
- internecine
- adj- very destructive to both sides of a conflict; involving slaughter and carnage 2. pertaining to a struggle or conflict within a group, organization, or nation (inter)
- obtrude
- verb- to force one's ideas or oneself insistently on others 2. to thrust or push out, to bulge noticeable, often in an undesirable way
- root- trudo
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- abstruse quote
- "Then he drew himself out, and having satisfied himself upon some ___ calculation, he carefully stretched the wire across the front of the hencoop and held it in place with his left hand while his right groped behind him for hammer and nail."
- root- pono, positum
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- interregnum
- "For our purposes, the notion of ____ refers to those hinges in time when the old order is dead, but the new direction has not been determined."
- interloper
- noun- one who intrudes by meddling or trespassing on the rights of others (inter)
- rapprochement
- noun- reconciliation, restoration of cordial relations, especially between two countries (prope)
- quiescent quote
- "The peer review system is satisfactory during _____ times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo."
- extrude
- verb- to push or thrust out a liquid or malleable substance that retains or solidifies into a pre-determined shape
- altruism
- noun- concern for the wellfare of others, unselfishishness (alter)
- epitome quote
- I am the American Dream. I am the ____ of what the American Dream basically said. It said, you could come from anywhere and be anything you want in this country. That's exactly what I've done. -Whoopi Goldberg
- obtrude quote
- "People who would ____, now do not ____. The mediocre circle learns to demand that which belongs to a high state of nature or of culture. Your manners are always under examination"
- unrequited
- adj- not recipricol, not given in payment or retunred in kind
- paradox quote
- The _____ of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.
- root- quies
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- root- peri
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- root- inter
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- anathema quote
- Nazi Germany produced some posters that would certainly rank as artistically meritorious; their political content was _____ to most people.
- rapprochement quote
- "The result of the quarrel was that the son left the house without a reconciliation or without even telling his father where he was going. He never came back again. A few years after, he died, without having in the meantime exchanged a word or a letter with his father...Under such conditions no _____ was to be looked for, and an utter indifference, founded at best on ignorance, took the place of family affection--even on community of interests"
- interregnum
- noun- any period of time when a state is without a ruler or has a provisional government, especially between the reign of a sovereign and a successor 2. an interval inbetween controlling elements, an interuption in an otherwise continuous function or process (inter)
- altruism quote
- "____ is for those who cannot endure their desires."
- epithet quote
- "Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the ____ is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness." Mary Wollstonecraft
- ephemeral quote
- "I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so _____. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you." -Billie Jean King
- extrude quote
- "The ____ filter was applied to each of these four objects tochange flat objects into 3D shapes with lighting and perspective"
- root- alter
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- interpose
- verb- to insert between parts of something: to interject in a conversation 2.to apply pressure or influence, to meddle, to interfere (positum)
- propinquity
- noun- nearness, proximitity 2. kinship- blood relationship, sharing common characteristics, close or connected (prope)
- quiescent
- adj- at rest, dormant, motionless (quies)