Vocab Unit 3
Mrs. Kuntz
Vocab Until 3
Vocab Until 3
Terms
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- Ambiguous
- Doubtfu or uncertain especially from being obscure or indistince. Unclear in meaning because of being understandable in more then one way
- Ambivalent
- Holding opposite feelings and attitudes at the same time toward someone or something
- Thermocline
- The region in a body of water that divides the warmer oxygen-rich layer from the colder, oxygen-poor deep water
- Polygot
- One who can speak or write several languages
- Ex post Facto
- Done, made, or formulated after the fact
- Epiphyte
- A plant that obtains its nutrients from the air and the rain and usually grows on another plant for support
- Polychromatic
- Showing a variety or change of colors, multicolored
- Homophone
- One of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning and/or spelling
- Ephemeral
- Lasting a day only, Lasting a very short time
- Dis
- Apart
- Hypothetical
- Involving an assumption made for the sake of argument or for further study or investigation
- Ambient
- Existing or present on all sides
- Hypothermia
- Subnormal temperature of the body
- Alter Ego
- A trusted friend or personal representative, The opposite sides of a personality
- Therm/Thermo
- Warm
- Amphitheater
- An oval or circular building with an open area ringed by riding tiers or seats, used in ancient Rome for contests and spectacles
- Thermal
- Of, relating to, or caused by heat
- Ad hominem
- Marked by an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the arguments made or the issues raised
- Hypocrisy
- A pretending to be what one is not or to feel what one does not really feel
- Prim
- First
- Primiparous
- Bearing a first offspring. Having borne only one previous offspring
- De jure
- By right of law
- Homonym
- One of two or more words pronounced and/or spelled alike but different in meaning
- Epitaph
- An inscription on a grave or tomb in memory of the one buried there
- Polyphony
- Music consisting of two or more independent but harmonious melodies
- Hypochondriac
- A person unduly concerned with health and often surrering from delusions of physical disease
- Disseminate
- To spread widely as if by sowing seeds
- Primal
- Original or primitive. First in importance
- Disfraction
- The bending or seperating of a beam of light, especially when it passes through a narrow opening or is reflected from a ruled surface
- De Facto
- Being such in practice or effect, although not formally recognized, actual
- Ep/Epi
- Upon, beside, attached to, over, outer, after
- Primordial
- First created or developed. Existing in or from the very beginning
- Ad hoc
- Formed or used for a particular purpose or for immediate needs
- Hom/Homo
- Same
- Modus Operandi
- A usual way of doing something
- Primogeniture
- An exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest son of a single set of parents
- Dissension
- Disagreement in opinion
- Polymer
- A chemican compound formed by a reaction in which two or more mlecules combine to form larger molecules with repeating structural units
- Thermocouple
- A device for measuring temperature that makes use of the way different metals respond to heat
- Hypo/Hyp
- Under, Beneath, Down, Below normal
- Epithet
- Descriptive word of phrase occuring with or in place of the name of a person or thing
- Modus Vivendi
- Manner of living
- Thermonuclear
- Of or relating to the changes in the nucleous of atoms with low atomic weight, such as hydrogen, that require a very high temperature to begin
- Poly
- Many
- Ambi/Amphi
- On both sides, around
- Dissipate
- To cause to spread out to the point of vanishing; Disperse
- Homogeneous
- Of the same or a similar kind. Of uniform structure or compsition throughout