ENC 1101 vocab. for college bound student book
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- abrupt
- broken off; lacking in continuity; steep
- corrupt(adj.)
- changed from good to bad; viscious
- corrupt(v.)
- changed from good to bad.
- disrupt
- break apart; cause disorder
- erupt
- burst or break out
- incorruptible
- inflexibly honest; incapable of being corrupted or bribed
- interrupt
- break into or between;hinder; stop
- rupture
-
1.break; breaking
2.hostility - sloping
- antonym of abrupt
- bactericide
- substance that kills bacteria
- biocide
- substance that destroy linving microorganisms
- fratricide
- act of killing on's brother
- fungicide
- susbstance that kills fungi or inhibits their growth
- genocide
- deliberate extermination of a racial or curltural group
- germicide
- susbstance that kills germs
- herbicide
- substance that kills plants
- homicide
- killing og one human by another
- infanticide
- act of killin an infant
- insecticide
- substance that kills insects
- matricide
- act of killing one's mother
- patricide
- act of killin one's father
- pesticide
- substance that kills rats, insects, bacteria, etc.
- regicide
- act of killing a king
- sororicide
- act of killing one's sister
- suicide
- act of killin one's self
- tyrannicide
- act of killing a tyrant
- astringent(adj.)
-
drawing tightly together
stern; austere - astringent(n.)
- substancde that shrinks tissues and checks flow of blood by drwaing together blood vessels
- boa constrictor
- snake that "constricts" or crushes its prey in its coils.
- constrict
- draw together; render narrower; shrink
- restrict
- deep within limits; confine
- stricture
- adverse criticism; censure
- stringent
- strict;rigid;severe
- unrestricted
-
not confined within bounds; free
open to all - carnivore
- flesh-eating animal
- carnivorous
- flesh-eating
- devour
-
eat greedily or ravenously
seize upon and destroy - frugivorous
- feeding on fruit
- herbivorous
- plant-eating animal
- insectivorous
- dependent on insects as food
- omnivore
- person or animal that eats everything
- omnivorous
-
1. eating verything, both plant and animal substances
2. avidly taking in everything, as an omnivorous reader - voracious
-
greedy in eating
insatiable, as a voracious appetite - omnibus (adj.)
- covering many things at once, as an omnibus bill
- omnibus(n.)
-
1.bus
2. book containing a variety of works by one author, as aHemingway omnibus - omnifarious
- of all varieties, forms, of kinds
- omnific
- all-creating
- omnipotent
- unlimited in power; almighty
- omnipresent
- present everywhere at the same time; ubiquitous
- omniscient
- knowing everything
- deflect
- turn aside
- flex
- bend, as to flex a limb
- flexible
- pliable; not rigid; tractable
- flexor
- muscle that serves to bend a limb
- genuflect
- bend the knee; tousch the right knee to the ground, as in worship
- inflection
- change in the pitch or tone of a person's voice
- inflexibility
- rigidity; firmness
- reflect
-
1. throuw back light, as from a prism
2. think - reflex
- involuntary response to a stimulus; for example, sneezing s a reflex
- convivial
- fond fo eating and drinking with freinds; jovial; hopitable
- revive
- bring back to life;restore
- survive
- outlive; remain alive after
- vivacious
- lively in a temper or conduct
- vivacity
- liveliness of spirit
- vivid
-
1. used with things having the vigor and spirit of life
2. sharp and clear;graphic - vivify
- enliven; make vivd
- vivisection
- operation on a living animal for scientific investigation
- contortionist
- person who can twist his or her body into odd postures
- distort
-
1. twist out of shape; contort
2. twist out of the true meaning; misrepresent; perver; falsify - extort
- wrest from a person by force
- retort (v.)
- reply quickly or sharply
- retort (n.)
- quick, witty, or cutting reply
- torsion
- act of twistin; twisting of a body by two opposing forces
- tortuous
- full of twists or curves; winding; as a tortuous road
- torture (v.)
-
1. wrench; twist
2. inflict severe pain upon - torture(n.)
- anguish of body or mind; agony
- convict (v.)
- prove guilty; show conclusively to be guilty
- convict (n.)
- person seving 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; conqueror
- fraction
- one or more of the equal parts of a whole; fragment
- 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. as an infraction of a law
- refract
- bend a ray of light; a heat or sound wave, etc., form a straight course
- refractory
- resisting; intractable; hard to manage, as a refractory mule
- detention
- act of keeping back or detaining
- impertinent
-
1. not pertinenet; inapropiate
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 assistantas attending a distinguished person
- tenacity
- firmness in holding fast; persistence
- tenancy
- period of a tenant;s temporary holding of real estate
- tenet
- principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true
- tenure
- 1. period for which and office or position is held, as: "Us Supreme Court Justices enjoy life tenure."
- untenable
- incapable of being held or defended
- admonish
- warn of a fault; reprove;rebuke
- admonition
- gentle reproof; couseling against a fault or error
- admonitory
- conveying a gentle reproof
- monitor (n.)
- person or mechanical device that keeps tracik of checks, or warns
- monitor (v.)
- keep track of, regulate, or control the operation of a machine or process
- monument
- a means of reminding us of a person or event; for example, a statue or a tomb
- premonition
- forewarning; intuitive anticipation of a coming event
- premonitory
- conveying a forewarning
- countermand
- issue a contrary order
- mandate
-
1. authorittive command
2. territory administered by a trustee - mandatory
- obligatory; required by command
- remand
- send back; recommit, as to a prison
- writ of mandamus
- written order from a cout 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 of trust
- credible
- believable
- credit
- belief; faith; trust
- credulous
- too reaky to believe; easily deceived
- creed or credo
- summary of principles believed in or adhered to
- discredit (v.)
-
1. cast doubt on ; refuse to believe
2. take trust or credit away from; disgrace - discredit(n.)
- loss of belief or trust; damage to one; 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
- one to whom secrets are entrusted
- confident
- having faith in oneself; self-reliant; sure
- confidential
- communicated in trust; secret; private
- diffident
- lackin 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