Classical Roots Chapters 1-7
Terms
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- vanguard
- the foremost position especially of an army or fleet, leaders of movement, fashion
- renegade
- one who desers a group, cause, faith, ect., an outlaw
- circumvent
- to avoid something especially cleverly or illegally
- trident
- three pronged spear used for fishing, three pronged spear used as a sceptor by the sea god Poseidon
- magnate
- a wealthy influential person especially in a buisiness
- polygon
- a flat shape with many straight sides
- megalomania
- a form of mental illness in which a person has exaggerated ideas of his or her own importance, an obsessive idea to do things on a grand scale
- decimate
- to destroy a large part of, to kill one in every ten
- antemeridian
- before midday, taking place in the morning
- omniscient
- all knowing, all knowledge, all seeing
- microcosm
- a miniature world, something that resembles something else on a very small scale
- aperture
- an opening especially one that omits light
- bilateral
- having two sides, made between two persons or groups
- attentuate
- to make slender or small, to weaken, to reduce force or value
- trisect
- to divide into three parts
- panacea
- a cure all for diseases or troubles
- magnitude
- greatness of importance or size, the degree of brightness of a star
- preemt or pre-empt
- to take possession of something before anyone else can do so
- precept
- a command, a rule of conduct
- idiom
- a metaphor, local sayings
- monolith
- a large block of stone, a large organization that acts as a single unit
- technocracy
- a theory and movement prominant about 1932 advocating control of industrial resources, reform of financial institutions, and reorganization of the social system based on findings of technologists and engineers
- antebellum
- of a period before a war especially the american civil war
- macrocosm
- the universe, any great whole
- miniscule
- extremely small
- bisect
- to divide into two equal parts
- anticlimax
- event conclusion that is not as good as what was expected
- totalitarian
- referring to a form of government in which one person or party holds absolute control
- satiate
- to satisfy an appetite fully, to gratify to excess
- omnipotent
- having unlimited power, all powerfull
- quatrain
- a stanza or group of four lines of poetry
- bicentennial
- a two hundredth anniversary, happening every two hundred years
- vacuity
- emptiness of mind, lack of intellagence or thought
- nihilism
- the total rejection of religious and moral beliefs
- idiosyncracy
- a characteristic, habit, or mannerism that is peculiat to an individual
- antedate
- to come before an event, to predate or to write before
- polygamy
- the system of having more than one spouse at a time
- quartet
- a musical composition for four voices or instruments, a set of four especially of four musicians
- inulateral
- one sided, done by or affecting one person, group, or country, and not another
- incipient
- in its early stages, beginning
- ambidextrous
- able to use both hands equally well
- antecedent
- a thing or event that precedes, the noun to which a pronoun refers, preceding, going before
- antipathy
- strong dislike
- preclude
- to prevent, to make impossible
- centenary
- pertaining to a 100 year period, a centennial
- monogram
- a design composed of letters usually the first letters of the name
- replete
- well stocked or abundantly supplied, completely filled, utterly satisfied
- pandemonium
- uproar
- overt
- done or shown openly
- omnipresent
- present everywhere
- renege
- to go back on your word or promise
- recluse
- a person who avoids mixing with people
- centigrade
- referring to a thermometer scale of 100 degrees where water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees
- annihilate
- to destroy completely
- monarch
- a person who rules a kingdom or empire, a king or queen, an emperor or empress, a large black and orange american butterfly
- pandemic
- occuring of a widespread geographic area and affecting an acceptionally high portion of the population
- magnanimous
- noble and generous especially in forgiving, not petty
- negate
- to disapprove, to nullify, to rule out, to cancel, to appeal
- antitank
- somthing that destroys tanks and other armored vehicles
- antecedent
- to come before, anything prior to
- holocaust
- a great destruction especially by fire, murder by the Nazis of over six million Jews and millions of other people in World War II
- vanity
- conceit especially about one's appearence, something worthless or useless, a dressing table
- circumnavigate
- to sail all the way around something, to move aroung something in order to avoid hitting it
- decathlon
- an athletic contest in which each contestant takes part in ten events
- cloister
- a covered walk along the inside walls of a building usually looking out on a courtyard, a monastery or similar place of religious seclusion
- tripartite
- composed of or divided into three parts, relating or executed by three parties
- triumvirate
- a group of three especially in authority
- anteroom
- an outer room that leafs to another room that is often used as a waiting room
- expletive
- an exclamation or oath often obscene
- centime
- a coin worth 1/100 of the value of the basic unit
- theocrat
- person who rules or governs as a representative of God, a member of the group in theocracy as a divine king or high priest
- trilogy
- a group of three literaty or musical works that have a related theme
- minutia
- a small or trivial detail
- copious
- plentiful, in large amounts
- monologue
- a long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group
- unanimous
- being in complete aggreement
- duplicate
- to make an identical copy or double of something, to repeat
- implement
- a tool or utensil, to carry out, to put into effect
- avant-garde
- ahead of the times especially in the arts
- quadrant
- a quarter of a circle or of its circumference, an early machine used for measuring altitudes, any of the four pats of an area divided by perpendicular lines
- predestination
- the belief that what happens in human life has already been determined by some higher power
- circus
- an open circular area where several roads join, anything thought of as being like a circus
- bipartisan
- involving two political parties
- ambivalent
- uncertainty or fluctuation especially caused by an inhibility to make a decision
- comply
- to do as one is asked or ordered
- catholic
- universal, including most things, referring to the Roman Catholic Church
- anterior
- situated before or toward the front
- quarto
- the page size obtained by folding a whole sheet into four leaves
- omnivorous
- feeding on both plants and meat,devouring everything especially intellectually
- occlude
- something that prevents somethign from happening, to cause to be closed or obstruct
- inception
- the beginning of something
- tenuous
- thin in form
- microbe
- an organism invisible to the naked eye especially one that causes diseases
- vaunt
- to boast, to brag about
- vacuous
- empty especially of meaning or purpose
- pretentious
- showy, pompous, claiming unjustified distinction
- preposterous
- absurd, contrary to nature or reason
- duplex
- a dwelling with two living units
- premonition
- a warning in advance
- monopoly
- exclusive control of the trade in some item or service, sole ownership or control over anything
- anterior
- coming before in position or time