OLC Ch 2->English
Terms
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- laud
- (v) to praise
- laudatory
- (adj) Expressing or conferring praise
- porter
- (n) A person employed to carry burdens
- salutation
- (n) greeting
- vocation
- (n) regular occupation, job
- via
- (prep) by way of
- iteration
- (n) repetition
- reiterate
- (v) repeat
- rapacious
- (adj) (1) greedy, ravenous; (2) taking by force, plundering.
- rapt
- (adj) Deeply absorbed
- avocation
- (n) hobby (a = from/away from)
- invoke
- (v) call upon for aid
- advocate
- (v) support; also a noun meaning one who supports a cause (ad = to/toward)
- vouch
- (v) to give personal guarantee
- equivocal
- (adj) ambiguous or doubtful
- equivocate
- (v) to deliberately use ambiguous language.
- portage
- (v) to carry boats and supplies overland between two waterways or around an obstacle to navigation (can also be a noun)
- purport
- (v) To have or present the often false appearance of being or intending (pro = forward)
- comport
- (v) to behave oneself in a particular manner