Vocab
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- Laissez Faire
- a policy of letting things take their own course (no gov)
- Respiration
- the action of breathing
- Unctuous
- excessively flattering
- Gamete
- a mature haploid male or female germ cell
- Winnow
- blow a current of air through
- Vehement
- showing strong feeling
- Hubris
- excessive pride or self confidence
- Interpolate
- insert between fixed points
- Jejune
- lack of interest
- Vortex
- a mass of whirling fluid or air
- Photosynthesis
- the process by which green plants use sunlight for energy
- Xenophobe
- intense or irrational dislike of people from other countries
- Diffident
- modest of shy, lack of self confidence
- Chicanery
- the use of trickery
- Hypotenuse
- the longest side of a triangle
- Nonsectarian
- not involving or relating to a specific group
- Parabola
- Symmetrical open plane curve
- Soliloquy
- an act of speaking ones thoughts aloud in a play
- Moiety
- each of two parts into which things can be divided
- Tectonic
- of or relation to the structure of the earth's crust
- Abstemious
- sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
- Quasar
- a massive and remote celestial object
- Oligarchy
- a small group of people having control of a country
- Enervate
- to feel drained of energy of vitality
- Lexicon
- a wordbook or dictionary
- Antebellum
- occuring or existing before a particular war
- Metamorphosis
- undergoing change
- Bellicose
- demonstrating aggression
- Abrogate
- to repeal or do away with
- Reciprocal
- given or done in return
- Polymer
- a substance that has a molecular structure of unified bonds
- Inculcate
- to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea or feeling
- Orthography
- the conventional spelling system of a language
- Lugubrious
- looking or sounding sad
- Oxidize
- to become clean with oxygen
- Feckless
- Lacking efficiency or vitality
- Filibuster
- an action to delay progress in the legislative assembly
- Gauche
- Lacking ease or grace, socially awkward
- Epiphany
- a moment of sudden revelation or insight
- Churlish
- rude in a mean spirited way
- Fiduciary
- involving trust, especially with a trustee
- Fatuous
- Silly and Pointless
- Facetious
- treating serious issues with deliberate humor
- Recapitulate
- summarize and state again
- Obsequious
- obedient or attentive to an excessive degree
- Kowtow
- to kneel in worship
- Hemoglobin
- protein in blood responsible for transporting oxygen
- Suffragist
- the grant or extension of political suffrage
- Totalitarian
- of or relating to a system of government that is centralized
- Thermodynamics
- the branch of physical science dealing with the heat and other forms of energy
- Deciduous
- shedding its leaves annually
- Vacuous
- having or showing a lack of thought
- Tempestuous
- characterized by strong and turbulent emotion
- Precipitous
- dangerously high or steep
- Nihilism
- the rejection of all religious and moral principles
- Bowdlerize
- to remove material that is considered improper or offensive, becomes weaker
- Enfranchise
- give the right to vote
- Belie
- to disguise
- Loquacious
- talkative
- Nomenclature
- the devising or choosing of names for things
- Circumlocution
- a round about or indirect way of speaking
- Infrastructure
- the basic physical structure needed for operation
- Supercilious
- behaving or looking superior
- Notarize
- have a document certified
- Subjugate
- bring under domination or control
- abstemious
- sparing or moderate,especialy in eating and drinking
- Pecuniary
- consisting of money
- Tautology
- the saying of the same thing twice in different words
- Plagiarize
- to copy another piece of work
- Hegemony
- Leadership or dominance
- Sanguine
- cheerfully optimistic
- Parameter
- a numerical factor forming a set, a distance around
- Mitosis
- a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells
- Circumnavigate
- to go around the world
- Abjure
- to renounce
- Usurp
- take illegally or by force
- Yeoman
- a man holding and cultivating a small estate
- Quotidian
- of or occurring everyday
- Impeach
- to call into question integrity
- Gerrymander
- manipulate the boundaries to favor a party or class
- Taxonomy
- the branch of science concerned with naming organisms
- Reparation
- the making of amends for a wrong that has been done
- Chromosome
- a threadlike structure of nucleic acids
- Evanescent
- soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence
- Ziggurat
- a rectangular stepped tower
- Deleterious
- causing harm or damage
- Paradigm
- a typical example or pattern
- Wrought
- activity involving mental effort done to achieve an activity
- Euro
- the european currency
- Irony
- the expression of ones meaning by using language that signifies the opposite
- Omnipotent
- having unlimited power
- Expurgate
- remove words thought to be objectionable
- Plasma
- the colorless fluid part of blood
- Kinetic
- motion
- Auspicious
- favorable
- Nanotechnology
- the branch of technology that deals with dimensions less than 100 nanometers
- Incognito
- in disguise
- Equinox
- the sun crosses the celestial equator
- Acumen
- the ability to make good judgements
- Homogeneous
- having the same relation
- Incontrovertible
- not open to question or dispute