Unit 5
Terms
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- dyspeptic
- 1)relating to or suffering from indigestions 2)having an irritable temperament; ill-humored
- carpe diem
- enjoy the pleasures or opportunities of the movement without concern about the future
- corpus delicti
- 1)the substantial and basic fact or facts necessary to prove that a crime has been committed 2)the material substance, such as the murdered body, on which a crime has been committed
- dystrophy
- any of several disorders invovling nerves and muscles, especially a hereditary disease marked by a progressive wasting of muscles
- prot/proto
- first in time, first formed
- rectillinear
- 1)moving in or forming a straight line 2)having many straight lines
- orth/ortho
- straight, right, true
- dysfunctional
- operation or functioning in an impaired or abnormal way
- rector
- 1)a clergyman in charge of a church or parish 2)the head of a university or school
- evangelism
- 1)the enthusiastic preaching or proclamation of the Christian gospel 2)militant or crusading zeal
- catalyst
- 1) a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction or lets it take place under different conditions 2) someone or something that brings about or speeds significant change or actions
- euphoria
- a feeling of well-being or great elation
- antechamber
- an outer room that leads to another and is often used as a waiting room
- malign
- to make harsh and often false or misleading statements about
- orthodox
- 1)holing established beliefs, esecially in religion 2)confroming to established rules or tadititions; conventional
- anterior
- 1)located before or toward the front or head 2)coming before in time or development
- malevolent
- having or showing intense ill will or hatred
- bona fide
- 1)made in good faith, withour deceit 2)authentic or genuine
- catacomb
- an underground cemetery of connecting passageways with recesses for tombs
- malnourished
- badly or poorly nourished
- cata
- down
- catatonic
- 1) relating to or suffering from a form of schizophrenia 2) showing an unusual lack of movement, activity, or expression
- orthopefics
- the correction or prevention of deformities of the skeleton
- rect
- straight, right
- a priori
- relating to or derived by reasoning from self-evident propostitions
- caveat emptor
- let the buyer beware
- ante
- before, in front of
- eugenic
- 1)relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring 2)relating to the science of improving the desirable traits of a race or breed thourgh controlled breeding
- mal
- bad
- prototype
- 1)an original model on which something is patterened 2)a first, full-scale, usually working version of a new type or design
- eu
- well, good, true
- protoplasm
- the substance that makes up the living parts of cells
- protocol
- 1)an original copy or record of a document 2)a code of diplomatic or military rules of behavior
- dyslexia
- a disturbance or interference with the ability to read or to use language
- rectify
- 1)to set right; remedy 2)to correct by removing errores; revise
- orthdontics
- a branch of dentistry that deals with the treatment and correction or crooked teeth and other irregularities
- orthography
- 1)the spelling of words according to standard usage 2)the part of language study concerned with letters and spelling
- curriculum vitae
- a short summary of one's carreer adn qualifications, typiclaly prepared by an applicant; for an academic job; résumé
- cataclysm
- 1) a violent and massive change of the earth's surface 2) a momentous event that results in great upheaval and often destruction
- rectitude
- 1)moral integrity 2)correctness of procedure
- a posteriori
- relating to or derived by reasoning form known or ovserved facts
- dys
- bad, difficult
- euphemism
- 1)the use of an agreeable or inofensive word or expression for one that may offend or disgust 2)an expression used in this way
- a fortiori
- all the more certainly
- malicious
- desiring to cause pain, injury, or distress to another
- antedate
- 1)to date something (such as a check) with a date earlier than that of actual writing 2)to precede in time
- protagonist
- the main character in a literary work
- ante meridiem
- before noon