Vocab list 5 (1-15)
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- abrupt
- 1) broken off; lacking in continuity; steep 2) sudden; quick and unexpected
- herbicide
- substance that kills plants
- constrict
- draw together; shrink
- herbivore
- plant-eating animal
- voracious
- 1) greedy in eating 2) insatiable, as a voracious appetite
- vivacity
- livliness in spirit
- vivid
- 1) (used with things) having the vigor and spirit of life 2) sharp and clear; graphic
- vivify
- enliven; make vivid
- vivisection
- operation on a living animal for scientific investigation
- corrupt (adj.) / corrupt (v.)
- changed from good to bad; viscious / change from good to bad; pervert; falsify
- homicide
- killing of one human by another
- disrupt
- break apart; cause disorder
- infanticide
- act of killing (or killer of) an infant
- herbivorous
- dependent on plants as food
- erupt
- burst or break out
- insecticide
- substance that kills insects
- restrict
- keep within limits
- incorruptible
- inflexibly honest; incapable of being corrupted or bribed
- matricide
- act of killing (or killer of) one's mother
- stricture
- adverse criticism; censure
- interrupt
- break into or between; hinder; stop
- patricide
- act of killing (or killer of) one's father
- rupture
- 1) break 2)hostility
- pesticide
- substance that kills rats, insects, bacteria, etc.
- insectivorous
- dependent on insects as food
- convivial
- fond of eating and drinking with friends; jovial; hopitable
- bactericide
- substance that kils bacteria
- regicide
- act of killing (or killer of) one's king
- stringent
- strict; rigid
- omnivore
- person or animal that eats everything (both flesh and plants)
- biocide
- substance that destroys living microorganisms
- sororocide
- act of killing (or killer of) one's sister
- unrestricted
- 1) not confined within bounds; free 2) open to all
- fratricide
- act of killing (or killer of) one's brother
- suicide
- act of killing (or killer of) one's self
- carnivore
- flesh-eating animal
- fungicide
- substance that kills fungi or inhabits their growth
- tyrannicide
- act of killing (or killer of) a tyrant
- carnivorous
- flesh-eating
- revive
- bring back to life; restore
- genocide
- deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
- astringent
- 1) drawing the tissues tightly together 2) stern; austere
- devour
- 1) eat greedily or ravenously 2) seize upon and destroy
- survive
- outlive; remain alive after
- germicide
- substance that kills germs
- boa constirctor
- snake that constricts or crushes its prey in its coils
- frugivorous
- feeding on fruit
- omnivorous
- 1) eating everything, both plants and animal substances 2) avidly taking in everything, as an omnivorous reader
- vivacious
- lively in temper or conduct
- contortionist
- person who can twist his or her body into odd postures
- distort
- 1) twist out of shape; contort 2) tiwts out of true meaning; misprepresent; falsify
- extort
- wrest (money, promises, etc.) from a person my force (literally "twist out")
- retort
- reply quickly or sharply ("twist back")
- torsion
- act of twisting; twisting of body by two opposite forces
- tortuous
- 1) full of twists or curves; winding 2) tricky; crooked
- torture
- 1) wrench; twist 2) inflict sever pain upon / anguish of body or mind; agony
- convict
- prove guilty; show conclusively to be guilty; person serving a prison sentence
- conviction
- 1) state of having been judged guilty of an offense 2) strong belief
- convince
- persuade or show conclusively by argument or proof
- evict
- 1) expel by legal process, as to evict a tenant 2) oust
- evince
- show clearly; disclose
- invincible
- incapable of being conquered
- vanquish
- overcome in battle; conquer
- victor
- winner; conquer
- fraction
- one or more equal parts of a whole
- fractious
- apt to break out into a passion; cross; irritable
- fracture
- 1) break or crack 2) breaking of a bone
- fragile
- easily broken; frail; delicate
- fragment
- part broken off
- infraction
- act of breaking; breach; violation
- refract
- bend a ray of light, a heat or sound wave from a straight course
- refractory
- rsisting; intractable; hard to manage
- omnibus
- covering many things at once (adj.); 1) bus 2) book containing a variety of works by one author (n.)
- omnifarious
- of all varieties, forms, or kinds
- omnific
- all-creating
- omnipotent
- unlimited in power; almighty
- omnipresent
- present everywhere at the same time; ubiquitous
- omniscient
- knowing everything
- deflect
- turn ("bend") aside
- flex
- bend, as to flex a limb
- flexible
- pliable; not rigid; tractable
- flexor
- muscle that serves to bend a limb
- genuflect
- bedn the knee; touch the right to knee to the ground as in worship
- inflection
- change ("bend") in the pitch or tone of a person's voice
- inflexibility
- rigidity; firmness
- reflect
- 1) throw ("bend") back light, as from a prism 2) think
- reflex
- involuntary response ("bending back") to a stimulus
- detention
- act of keeping back or detaining
- impertinent
- 1) not pertinent; inappropriate 2) rude
- pertinacious
- adhering firmly to a purpose or opinion; very persistent
- pertinent
- having to do with the matter at hand; relevant
- retentive
- tenacious; able to retain or remember
- retinue
- group of followers or assistants attending a distringuished person
- tenacity
- firmness in holding fast; persistence
- tenancy
- period of tenant's temporary holding of real estate
- tenet
- principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true
- tenure
- 1) period for which an office or position is held 2) status assuring an employee a permanent position
- untenable
- incapable of being held or defended
- admonish
- warn of a fault; reprove; rebuke
- admonition
- gentle reproof; counseling against a fault or error
- admonitory
- conveying a gentle reproof
- monitor
- person or mechanical device that keeps track of, checks, or warns
- monument
- a means of reminding us of a person or event
- premonition
- forewarning; intuitive anticipation of a coming event
- premonitory
- conveying a forewarning
- countermand
- issue a contrary order
- mandate
- 1) authoritative command 2) territory administered by a trustee (supervisory nation)
- mandatory
- obligatory; required by command
- remand
- send back; recommit, as to a prison
- writ of mandamus
- writtern order from a court to enforce the performance of some public duty
- accredited
- officially authorized or recognized; provided with credentials
- credence
- belief as to the truth of something
- credentials
- documents, letters, references, etc., that inspire belief or trust
- credible
- believable
- credit
- belief; faith; trust
- credulous
- too ready to believe; easily deceived
- creed/credo
- summary of principles believed in or adhered to
- discredit
- 1) cast doubt on; refuse to believe 2) take trust or credit away from; disgrace; (n.) loss of belief or trust; damage to one's reputation; disgrace
- incredible
- not believable
- incredulity
- disbelief
- affidavit
- sworn written statement made before and authorized official
- bona fide
- made or carried out in good faith; genuine
- confidant/confidante (if a woman)
- one to whom secrete are entrusted
- confident
- having faith in oneself; self-reliant; sure
- confidential
- communicated in trust; secret; private
- diffident
- lack faith in oneself; timid; shy
- fidelity
- 1) faithfulness to a trust or vow 2) accuracy; faithfulness of sound reproduction
- fiduciary
- 1) held in trust 2) confidential
- infidel
- one who does not accept a particular faith; unbeliever
- perfidious
- false to a trust; faithless
- perfidy
- violation of a trust; treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty
- congratulate
- express one's plesure to another person at that person's success
- gracious
- pleasant; courteous; kindly
- grateful
- feeling or expressing gratitude; thankful; obliged
- gratis
- eithout charge or payment; free
- gratitude
- thankfulness
- gratiuitous
- 1) given freely; gratis 2) unwarranted
- gratuity
- present of money in return for a favor or service; tip
- ingrate
- ungrateful person
- ingratiate
- establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of another
- immortal
- 1) not subject to death 2)not subject to oblivion; imperishable
- immortality
- 1) eternal life 2) lasting fame
- moribund
- dying; near death
- mortal
- 1) destined to die 2) human 3) causing death; fatal
- mortality
- 1) death rate 2) mortal nature
- mortician
- undertaker
- mortification
- shame
- mortify
- embarrass; shame
- mortuary
- funeral home
- rigor mortis
- stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death
- corporal
- bodily
- corporation
- body authorized by law to carry on an activity with the rights and duties of a single person
- corps
- 1) organized body of persons 2) branch of the military
- corpse
- dead body
- corpulent
- bulky; obese; fat
- corpus
- general collection or body of writings, laws, etc.
- corpuscle
- 1) blood cell 2) minute particle
- espirit de corps
- spirit of a body of persons; group spirit
- habeas corpus
- 1) writ (order) requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that person's detention 2) right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment
- incorporate
- combine so as to form one body
- corpus delicti
- 1) facts proving that a crime has been committed 2) body of the victim in a murder case
- aqueduct
- artificial channel for conducting water over a distance
- conducive
- tending to lead to; contributive; helpful
- conduct
- lead; guide; escort
- deduction
- 1) taking away; subtraction 2) reasoning from the general to the particular
- duct
- tube or channel for conducting a liquid, air, etc.
- ductile
- 1) able to be drawn out or hammered thin (said or metal) 2) easily led; docile
- induce
- lead on; move by persuasion
- induct
- admit as a member; initiate
- induction
- 1) ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation 2) reasoning from the particular to the general
- seduction
- enticement; leading astray into wrongdoing
- traduce
- malign; slander; villify; calumniate
- viaduct
- bridge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley, river, etc.
- consecutive
- following in regular order; successive
- consequence
- 1) that which follows logically; result 2) importance, as a person of consequence
- execute
- 1) follow through to completion, carry out 2) put to death
- inconsequential
- of no consequence; trivial; unimportant
- prosecute
- 1) follow to the end or until finished 2) conduct legal proceedings against; sue
- sequel
- something that follows; continuation; consequence; outcome
- sequence
- the following of one thing after another; succession; orderly series
- sequential
- arranged in a sequence; serial
- concur
- 1) agree; be of the same opinion 2) happen together; coincide
- concurrent
- running together; occuring at the same time
- current
- 1) running or flowing 2) now in progress, prevailing
- curriculum
- course of study in school or college
- cursive
- running or flowing (letters are joined)
- cursory
- running over hastily; superficially done
- discursive
- wandering from one topic to another; rambling
- excursion
- going out or forth; expedition
- incur
- 1) meet with something undesirable 2) bring upon oneself
- incursion
- 1) a rushing into 2) a hostile invasion; raid
- precursor
- forerunner; predecessor
- recur
- happen again
- aggressive
- disposed to attack; militant; assertive; pushing
- egress
- means of going out; exit
- gradation
- 1) a change by steps or stages 2)act of grading
- grade
- step; stage; degree; rating
- gradient
- 1) rate at which a road, railroad, tack, temperature, etc. rises 2) slope
- gradual
- step-by-step; bit by bit
- graduate
- complete all the steps of a course and receive a dimploma or degree
- graduated
- arranged in regular steps, stages, or degrees
- progressive
- going forward to something considered better
- regressive
- disposed to move backward; retrograde
- retrograde
- 1) going backward 2) becoming worse
- retrogression
- act of going from better to worse
- transgress
- step beyond the limits or barriers; break a law
- biped
- 2 footed animal
- centipede
- wormlike animal with one pair of legs on most of its segments
- expedite
- 1) facilitate 2) accelerate or speed up
- impede
- hinder
- impediment
- 1) hindrance 2) defect
- millipede
- wormlike with two pairs of legs on most of its segments
- pedal
- lever acted on by foot
- pedestal
- 1) support or foot of a column or statue 2) foundation
- pedestrian
- person travelling on foot
- velocipede
- 1) child's tricycle 2) early form of bicycle
- contact
- touching or meeting; association
- contiguous
- touching; in physical contact; adjoining
- contingent
- 1) dependent on something else 2) accidental
- intact
- untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole
- intangible
- 1) not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch 2) hard to grasp or define exactly
- tact
- sensitive mental perception of what is appropriate on a given occasion.
- tactful
- having or showing tact
- tactile
- 1) pertaining to the sense of touch 2) tangible
- tangent
- touching
- tangential
- merely touching; slightly connected
- apprehend
- 1) seize or take into custody 2) understand
- apprehensive
- 1) quick to understand or grasp 2) fearful of what may come; anxious
- comprehensible
- able to be grasped mentally; understandeable
- comprehensive
- including very much; extensive
- prehensile
- adapted for seizing
- reprehend
- find fault with, rebuke
- reprehensible
- deserving of censure; culpable
- abject
- sunk or cast down to a low condition; downtrodden
- conjecture
- a guess
- dejected
- downcast; discouraged
- eject
- throw out or expel; evict
- inject
- force or introduce a liquid, a remark, etc.
- interject
- throw in between; insert; interpose
- projectile
- 1) object designed to be shot forward 2) anything thrown forward
- reject
- refuse to take, discard
- subject
- force someone to undergo something unpleasant or inconvenient, expose
- aversion
- feeling of repugnance toward something, with a desire to turn away from, strong dislike
- avert
- 1) turn away 2) prevent
- controversy
- dispute
- diversion
- entertainment, amusement
- divert
- 1) turn aside 2) amuse, entertain
- extrovert
- one more interested in matters outside the self than in one's own thoughts and feelings
- inadvertently
- without turning one's mind to the matter at hand, carelessly
- incontrovertible
- not able to be turned opposite or disputed, not open to question