vocabulary section 2
Terms
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- apiary
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noun
places where bees are kept - aviary
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noun
place where birds are kept - badger
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verb
tease; annoy; nag - halcyon
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adj
calm; peaceful - lionize
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verb
treat as highly important - menagerie
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noun
place where animals are kept and trained; collection of wild animals - molt
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verb
shed feathers, skin, hair - ornithology
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noun
study of birds - parasite
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noun
animal, plant, or person living off others; freeloader - parasitic
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adjective
living at the expense of another; sponging - parrot
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verb
repeat mechanically - scavenger
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noun
animal or person removing refuse, decay - antidote
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noun
remedy for a poison or evil - astringent
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adj
1. severe; stern
2. causing contraction - benign
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adj
1. not dangerous
2. gentle; kindly - convalesce
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verb
recover health after illness; recuperate - convalescent
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noun
person recovering from sickness - fester
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verb
form pus; rankle; rot; putreyfy - hypochondriac
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noun
person who is morbidly anxious about perosnal health, or suffering from imagined illness - immunity
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noun
1. resistance to a disease
2. freedom from an obligation - immunize
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verb
make immune, resistant from a disease - lesion
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noun
injury; hurt - malignant
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adj
1. threatening to cause death
2. very evil - morbid
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adj
1. gruesome
2. having to do with disease - pestilential
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adj.
1. morally harmful
2. pertaining to a pestillence (plague) - regimen
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noun
set of rules, especially to improve health - salubrious
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adj
healthful - sebaceous
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adj
greasy; secreting fatty matter - therapeutic
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adj
curative - toxic
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adj
poisonous - unguent
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noun
salve; ointment - viral
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adj
caused by a virus - virulent
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adj
1. extreemly poisonous
2. very bitter - virus
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noun
1. disease causing substance too small to be seen through a microscope
2. corruptive force - acclaim
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verb
welcome with approval; applad loudly - encomium
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noun
speech or writing of high praise; tribute; eulogy; panegyric - eulogize
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verb
praise; extol; laud; glorify - kudos
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noun
fame or praise due to achievement - laudable
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adj
praiseworthy; commendable - laudatory
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adj
expressing praise; elogistic - plaudit
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noun
applause, enthusiastic praise, acclaim - calumnious
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adjective
falsely and maliciously accusing; defamatory; sladerous - derogatory
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adj
expressing low esteem; belittling - imputation
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noun
charge, especially an unjust or false charge; insinuation; accusation - libel
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noun
false and defamatory printed statement - libelous
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adj
injurious to reputation; defamatory; calumnious - malign
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verb
speak evil of; vilify; traduce - slander
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noun
false and defamatory spoken statement - stigma
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noun
mark of disgrace - stigmatize
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verb
brand with a mark of disgrace - banter
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noun
playful teasing; joking; raillery - caricature
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noun
drawingm imitation, or description that ridiculously exaggerates peculiarities or defects - droll
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adj
odd and laughter-provoking - facetious
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adj
1. in the habit of joking
2. said in jest without serious intent - flippant
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adj
treating serious matters lightly - harlequin
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noun
buffoon; clown - hilarious
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adj
boisterously merry; very funny - hilarity
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noun
noisy gaiety; mirth; jollity; glee - ironic
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adj
containing or expressing irony - irony
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noun
1. species of humor whos intended meaning is the opposite of the words used
2. state of affairs contrary to what would normally be expected - jacose
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adj
given to jesting; playfully humorous; jocular - levity
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noun
lack of proper seriousness; trifling gaiety; frivolity - ludicrous
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adj
exciting laughter; ridiculous; farcical; absurd - parody
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noun
humorous imitation - sarcasm
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noun
sneering and often ironic language intended to hurt a person's feelings - sarcastic
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adj
given to or expressing sarcasm - sardonic
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adj
bitterly sarcastic; mocking; sneering - satire
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noun
language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to ridicule - satiric
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adj
given to or expressing satire - travesty
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noun
imitation that makes a serious thing seem ridiculous; mockery - alacrity
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noun
cheerful willingness; readiness; liveliness - aversion
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noun
strong dislike; repugnance; antipathy - involuntary
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adj
not done of one's own free will; automatic; unintentional; spontaneous - loath
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adj
unwilling; adverse; disinclined; reluctant - loathe
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verb
have intense aversion to; detest - volition
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noun
will - accllivity
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noun
upward slope - acme
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noun
highest point; pinnacle; summit - apogee
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noun
1. farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenly body
2. highest point; culmination - climatic
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adj
arranged in order of increasing force and interest - consummate
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adj
perfect; superb; carried to the highest degree - eminence
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noun
high rank - eminent
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adj
standing out; notable; famous - etheral
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adj
of the heavens; celestial; airy; delicate intangible - exalt
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verb
1. lift up with joy, pride, etc.
2. raise in rank, dignity - precipice
- very steep or overhanging place; cliff
- precipitous
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adj
1. steep as a precipice
2. hasty, rash - preeminent
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adj
standing out or above others; superior - sublimate
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1. redirect the energy of a person's bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels
2. purify; refine - sublime
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adj
elevated; noble; exalted; uplifting - vertex
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noun
farthest point opposite the base as in a triangle or pyramid - zenith
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noun
1. highest point; culmination peak
2. point in the heavens directly overhead - abject
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adj
deserving contempt; sunk to a low condition; wretched - abysmal
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adj.
deep, profound; immeasurably great - abyss
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noun
botomless depth; immesurably great space - anticlimax
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noun
abrupt decline from the dignified or important to teh trivial or ludicrous comedown; bathos - chasm
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noun
deep breach; wide gap or rift - declivity
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noun
downward slope - dregs
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noun
most worthless part; sediment of the bottom of the liquid - earthy
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adj
down-to-earth; realistic; coarse; low - humble
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adj
1. of low position or condition
2. not proud; unpretentious; modest - humiliate
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verb
lower the pride, position, or dignity of, abase, degrade, mortify - humility
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noun
freedom from pride; humblenes; lowliness; modesty - menial
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adj
low; mean; subservient; servile - nadir
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noun
lowerst point - plumb
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verb
get to the bottom of; ascertain the depth of - profound
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adj
very deep; deeply felt; intellectually deep - ravine
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noun
deep narrow gorge worn by running water - consanguinuity
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noun
blood relationship - filial
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adj
of or like a son or daughter - fraternal
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adj
of or like a brother - genealogy
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noun
a person's of family's descent; lineage; pedigree - gentility
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noun
1. good manners
2.gentry; upper class - kith and kin
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noun
friends and relatives; kindred - maternal
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adj
of or like a mother - nepotism
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noun
favoritism to relatives by those in power - paternal
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adj
of or like a father - progenitor
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noun
forefather - progeny
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noun
offspring; children; descendants - sibling
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noun
one of two or more children of a family - aroma
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noun
pleasant odor; bouquet - aromatic
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adj
sweet-schented fragrant - fragrant
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adj
1. stale smelling; musty; moldy
2. old-fashioned - incense
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noun
substance yielding a pleasent odor when burned - malodorous
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adj
ill smelling stinking unpleasently odorous - noisome
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adj
1. offensive to smell; disgusting
2. harmful; noxious - olfactory
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adj
pertaining to the sense of smell - pungent
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adj
sharp in smell or taste; biting stimulating - putrid
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adj
1. stinking from decay
2.extremely bad; corrupt - rancid
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adj
unpleasent to smell or taste from being spoiled or stale - rank
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adj
1. having a strong, bad odor or taste; offensively gross or course
2. extreme - reek
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verb
emit a strong disagreeable smell; be permeated with - scent
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verb
get a suspicion of - unsavory
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adj
1. unpleasent to taste or smell
2.morally offensive