Boxy's Vocab Final
41 words for the semester vocab final!
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- toxic
- poisonous
- laudatory
- expressing praise
- convalesce
- recover health after illness, recuperate
- halcyon
- calm, peaceful
- unguent
- salve, ointment
- virulent
- extremly poisonous, deadly OR very bitter
- fester
- form pus, rot
- ornithology
- study of birds
- badger
- tease, annoy, nag
- lesion
- injury
- acclaim
- welcome with approval
- plaudit
- applause, enthusiastic praise (used in plural)
- parrot
- repeat mechanically
- malignant
- threatening to cause death OR very evil
- antidote
- remedy for poison or evil
- astringent (adj.)
- severe, stern
- immunity
- restistance to a disease OR freedom from obligations
- virus
- disease causing substance OR corruptive force
- morbid
- gruesome OR having to do with disease
- encomium
- tribute, eulogy, speech of praise
- aviary
- place where birds are kept
- salubrious
- healthful
- pestilential
- morally harmful OR pertaing to a plague
- eulogize
- praise, glorify, extol
- parasite
- animal, plant or person living on others
- benign
- not dangerous OR kind, gentle
- viral
- caused by virus
- molt
- shed feathers, skin, hair, etc.
- lionize
- treat as highly important
- scavenger
- animal of person removing refuse, decay, etc.
- sebaceous
- greasy, secreting sebum (fatty matter)
- apiary
- place where bees are kept
- menagerie
- place where animals are kept and trained
- astringent (n.)
- substance that shrinks tissues and checks flow of blood
- laudable
- praiseworthy
- therapeutic
- curative
- parasitic
- living at expenses of others, mooching
- hypochondriac
- one who is morbidly anxious about personal health or suffering from imagined illness
- convalescent
- person recovering from illness
- immunize
- make immune
- regimen
- set of rules (to improve health)