English Vocab
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- herbivore
- plant-eating animal
- insectivorous
- depending on insects as food
- germicide
- substance that kills germs
- stringent
- severe
- boa constrictor
- snake that crushes its prey in its coils
- sororicide
- act of killing one's sister
- devour
- eat greedily or ravenously
- carnivorous
- flesh-eating
- biocide
- substance that destroys many different organisms
- evict
- oust
- evince
- reveal
- fratricide
- act of killing one's brother
- pesticide
- subtance that kills rats, insects, bacteria, etc.
- fragment
- part broken off
- refractory
- resisting
- omnivore
- person or animal that eats everything
- convict (v.)
- prove guilty
- convict (n.)
- person serving a prison sentence
- distort
- contort
- voracious
- greedy in eating
- fractious
- irritable
- unrestricted
- free
- infanticide
- act of killing an infant
- conviction
- strong belief
- restrict
- confine
- homicide
- killing of one human by another
- vivid
- sharp and clear
- corrupt (adj.)
- changed from good to bad
- victor
- winner
- revive
- restore
- convince
- persuade or show conclusively by argument or proof
- fragile
- easily broken
- astringent (adj.)
- stern
- vivify
- make vivid
- vanquish
- defeat
- insecticide
- substance that kills insects
- fracture
- break or crack
- bactericide
- substance that kills bacteria
- disrupt
- cause disorder
- contortionist
- person who can twist his or her body into odd postures
- frugivorous
- feeding on fruit
- torture (v.)
- wrench
- torture (n.)
- agony
- astringent (n.)
- substance that shrinks tissue and checks flow of blood
- torsion
- act of twisting
- stricture
- censure
- vivisection
- operation on a living animal for scientific investigation
- extort
- wrest from a person by force
- tortuous
- tricky
- regicide
- act of killing a king
- herbicide
- substance that kills plants
- vivacious
- lively in temper or conduct
- survive
- remain alive after
- erupt
- burst or break out
- refract
- bend from a straight path
- retort (v.)
- reply quickly or sharply
- omnivorous
- eating everything, both plant and animal substances
- convivial
- sociable
- infraction
- violation
- suicide
- act of killing one's self
- retort (n.)
- quick witty or cutting reply
- fungicide
- substance that kills fungi or inhibits their growth
- tyrannicide
- act of killing a tyrant
- invincible
- incapable of being conquered
- abrupt
- sudden
- matricide
- act of killing one's mother
- patricide
- act of killing one's father
- herbivorous
- depending on plants as food
- genocide
- deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
- carnivore
- flesh-eating animal
- fraction
- fragment
- corrupt (v.)
- change from good to bad
- vivacity
- liveliness of spirit