Vocabulary from Chapter 5 2
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- amiable
- likable, good-natured, pleasant
- amicable
- friendly, neighborly
- amity
- friendship
- amorous
- strongly moved by love
- enamored
- inflamed with love, charmed
- animosity
- violent hatred
- animus
- ill will
- equanmity
- evenness of mind and temper under stress
- unanimity
- complete agreement
- affinity
- attraction, liking
- confine
- keep within limits
- definitive
- conclusive, final
- influx
- inpouring, inflow
- degenerate
- to sink into a lower class, worsen
- engender
- give birth too, create, generate
- progenitor
- forefather, forebear
- regenerate
- cause to be born again, reform completely
- aggregate
- to gather into one mass
- aggregation
- gathering of individuals into group
- congregation
- gathering of people for religious worship
- gregarious
- fond of being with others, sociable
- segregation
- separation from man body, setting apart
- adhere
- stick, hold fast, be attached
- cohere
- stick together
- coherence
- logical connection, state of sticking together
- cohesion
- unity, bond
- incoherent
- not logically connected
- inherent
- deeply infixed, "sticking in"
- collateral
- accompanying, parallel, additional
- equilateral
- having all sides equal
- lateral
- of or pertaining to the side
- alliteration
- repetition of the same letter at the beginning of the neighboring words
- literal
- following the letters of the original, word for word
- elucidate
- make clear, explain
- luminary
- famous person
- luminous
- emitting light, bright, shining
- translucent
- letting light through
- emancipate
- free, liberate, free from bondage
- manacle
- handcuff
- mandate
- authorization to act, command/order
- manipulate
- operate with the hands
- manuscript
- document written by hand
- append
- attach
- appendix
- matter added to end of book
- impending
- threatening to occur soon
- pending
- waiting to be settled, not yet decided
- suspend
- stop temporarily, hold up
- suspense
- condition left hanging or in doubt
- depose
- testify, swear, put out of office
- impose
- inflict
- superimpose
- put on top of or over
- transpose
- change relative order of
- conscript
- enroll into military service, draft
- inscription
- something inscribed on monument,etc.
- prescribe
- order, direct
- proscribe
- harmful or illegal, prohibit
- scribe
- one who writes
- assmilate
- make similar or like, absorb
- simulate
- give appearance of, imitate
- simultaneous
- happening at the same time
- desolute
- lay waste, ravage, left alone, abandon
- soliloquy
- speech made to oneself when alone
- solitary
- being or living alone
- inundate
- flood, overflow
- redound
- flow back as a result, contribute
- redundant
- exceeding what is necessary
- aver
- state to be true, oppposite of deny
- verdict
- decision of a jury
- veritable
- true, real
- verity
- truth, something true
- absolute
- completely free of consitutional restraint; unquestionable
- dissolution
- breaking up into component parts, ruin
- solvent
- able to pay one's debts, able to dissolve another substance(solute)
- abound
- be well supplied, plentiful
- envision
- foresee, mental picture( not reality yet)
- video
- having to do with the transmission or reception of what is seen
- visual
- having to do with sight