Latin VIII - Review
Terms
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- ascertain
- to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance
- contagion
- the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact
- sentient
- having the power of perception by the senses; conscious
- confess
- to acknowledge or avow (a fault, crime, misdeed, weakness, etc.) by way of revelation
- intangible
- incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch
- ferrous
- of or containing iron, esp. in the bivalent state
- similitude
- likeness; resemblance
- inspector
- a person who examines
- prescience
- knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight
- evident
- plain or clear to the sight or understanding:
- efficiency
- accomplishment of or ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort
- effigy
- a representation or image, esp. sculptured, as on a monument
- mortify
- to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect
- integument
- a natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind
- conspicuous
- easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable
- mordacity
- biting or given to biting
- vociferous
- crying out noisily; clamorous
- resemblance
- a degree, kind, or point of likeness
- presentiment
- a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, esp. something evil; foreboding
- intact
- not altered, broken, or impaired; remaining uninjured, sound, or whole; untouched; unblemished
- palpable
- readily or plainly seen, heard, perceived, etc.; obvious; evident
- tangent
- in immediate physical contact; touching
- science
- a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws
- benefit
- something that is advantageous or good; an advantage
- mortal
- subject to death; having a transitory life
- indiscriminate
- lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, haphazard; thoughtless
- dormitory
- a building, as at a college, containing a number of private or semiprivate rooms for residents, usually along with common bathroom facilities and recreation areas
- somnolent
- sleepy; drowsy
- profess
- to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to
- differentiate
- to form or mark differently from other such things; distinguish.
- presage
- something that portends or foreshadows a future event
- improvident
- lacking foresight; neglecting to provide for future needs
- tactile
- of, pertaining to, endowed with, or affecting the sense of touch.
- survival
- the act or fact of surviving, esp. under adverse or unusual circumstances
- prospective
- of or in the future, of or in the future
- factor
- one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation
- digest
- to convert food or to obtain information, ideas, or principles from; assimilate mentally
- reference
- a mention; allusion; something for which a name or designation stands; denotation
- somniloquist
- The act or habit of talking in one's sleep.
- sapient
- having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment
- morbid
- suggesting an unhealthy mental state or attitude; unwholesomely gloomy, sensitive, extreme, etc.
- auriferous
- yielding or containing gold
- audit
- an official examination and verification of accounts and records, esp. of financial accounts
- retrospect
- contemplation of the past; a survey of past time, events, etc.; to look back in thought; refer back
- vista
- a view or prospect, esp. one seen through a long, narrow avenue or passage, as between rows of trees or houses
- suggestion
- the calling up in the mind of one idea by another by virtue of some association or of some natural connection between the ideas
- proviso
- a clause in a statute, contract, or the like, by which a condition is introduced
- mores
- folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group
- morsel
- a bite, mouthful, or small portion of food, candy, etc
- verisimilitude
- the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability
- introspective
- to look into or examine one's own mind, feelings, etc.
- devitalize
- to deprive of vitality or vital properties; make lifeless; weaken
- circumference
- the outer boundary, esp. of a circular area; perimeter
- detective
- A person, usually a member of a police force, who investigates crimes and obtains evidence or information
- transfix
- to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror
- aspect
- appearance to the eye or mind; look
- dissension
- strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord
- insensate
- without human feeling or sensitivity; cold; cruel; brutal
- infatuate
- to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love
- preparatory
- preliminary; introductory
- gustatory
- of or pertaining to taste or tasting
- specimen
- a part or an individual taken as exemplifying a whole mass or number; a typical animal, plant, mineral, part, etc
- visibility
- the relative ability to be seen
- malefic
- productive of evil; malign; doing harm; baneful
- differ
- to be unlike, dissimilar, or distinct in nature or qualities
- defer
- to put off, to exempt temporarily from induction into military service.
- supervise
- to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of
- vivacity
- liveliness; animation; sprightliness
- tacit
- understood without being openly expressed; implied
- equanimity
- mental or emotional stability or composure
- confer
- to consult together; compare opinions; carry on a discussion or deliberation
- resentment
- the feeling of displeasure or indignation at some act, remark, person, etc., regarded as causing injury or insult
- irreparable
- incapable of being rectified, remedied, or made good
- consensus
- majority of opinion
- incriminate
- to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault
- indivisible
- not separable into parts; incapable of being divided:
- congestion
- overcrowding; clogging
- nescient
- lack of knowledge; ignorance
- incomparable
- matchless or unequaled
- species
- a class of individuals having some common characteristics or qualities; distinct sort or kind
- manufacture
- the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery
- sage
- a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom
- simultaneous
- existing, occurring, or operating at the same time
- mortuary
- of or pertaining to the burial of the dead
- sensation
- the operation or function of the senses; perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses
- assembly
- coming together of a number of persons, usually for a particular purpose
- despicable
- deserving to be despised; contemptible
- longanimity
- patient endurance of hardship, injuries, or offense; forbearance
- fatuity
- complacent stupidity; foolishness
- malefactor
- a person who violates the law; criminal