Vocabulary Builder Unit 8
Terms
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- having a tendency to pick fights
- contentious
- `to swell or become expanded
- distend
- to give a sign or warning beforehand
- portend
- leaning toward a particular point of view; biased
- tendentious
- something joined on to a larger or more important body or thing
- appendage
- to pay out or use up
- expend
- an often intense natural inclination or preference
- propensity
- a sum of money paid at regular intervals in return for services or to cover expenses
- stipend
- a remedy for all ills or difficulties; cure-all
- panacea
- a wild uproar or commotion
- pandemonium
- a formal speech or statement giving high praise to someone or something
- panegyric
- a magnificent or impressive array
- panoply
- situated in or relating to a region beyond the material world
- extramundane
- to extend or project facts or data into an area not known in order to make assumptions or to predict facts or trends
- extrapolate
- A person mainly concerned with things outside themselves; a sociable and outgoing person
- extrovert
- Giving off a glow that continues after an energy source has stopped transmitting energy
- phosphorescent
- very suitable for being photographed
- photognic
- a tiny particle or bundle of radient energy
- photon
- the process by which green plants use light to produce organic matter from carbon dioxide and water
- photosynthesis
- to clarify by explaining
- elucidate
- Giving off light; easily seen through
- lucent
- hard and difficult study; the product of such study
- lucubration
- partly transparent; allowing light to pas through but diffusing it so that objects beyond cannot see clearly
- translucent
- deathless or unending existence
- immortality
- in the process of dying or approaching death; inactive or becoming out moded
- moribound
- a person who prepares the dead for burial or cremation and manages the funeral
- mortician
- to subdue or deaden (the body) espcially by self-displine or self-inlicted pain. to embarass greatly; humiliate
- mortify
- deadly; mutually destructive
- internecine
- the usually localized death of living tissue
- necrosis
- harmful to or destructive of living things
- noxious
- extremely harmful or destructive
- pernicious
- a box with strings that produce musical sounds when wind blows on them
- aeolian harp
- a guide; a center of attention
- cynosure
- using extremely few words
- laconic
- having to do with the memory; assisting the memory
- mnemonic
- relating to the philospher Plato and his teachings; involving a close relationship in which romance and sex are absent
- Platonic
- lesbian; relating to a poetic verse pattern associated with Sappho
- sapphic
- having to do with the philosopher Socrates or with his teachin method, in which he systematically questioned the student in conversation in order to draw forth truth
- socratic
- a grammatical mistake in speaking or writing. a blunder in etiqutte or proper behavior
- solecism