9TH VOCAB
Terms
undefined, object
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- INAUSPICIOUS
-
PREFIX--"IN-" = NOT
+ auspicious
Not favorable - UNFAZED
-
PREFIX: "UN" = "NOT"
+ "FAZED"
["un",("not") + Middle English "fesen", "to drive away, frighten", from Old English]
CALM; NOT DISTURBED
- UNFOUNDED
-
PREFIX: "UN-" = "NOT"
+ "FOUNDED"
["un-", "not", + Middle English "founden", from Old French "fonder", from Latin "fundre", from "fundus", "bottom".]
GROUNDLESS; WITHOUT SUBSTANCE; FALSE
- INTREPID
-
PREFIX = "IN" = "NOT"
+ "TREPID"
[from Latin "intrepidus", "calm," from "in"-, "not" + "trepidus", "anxious, disturbed."
Fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous
- UNPARALLELED
-
PREFIX: "UN-" = "NOT"
+ "PARALLELED"
["un-", "not" + Latin "paralllus", from Greek "paralllos" : "para"-, "beside"; + "allln", "of one another"]
UNEQUALED; HAVING NO PARALLEL - UNFLAPPABLE
-
PREFIX: "UN-" = "NOT"
+ "FLAPPABLE"
Not easily excited or upset - IMPIOUS
-
PREFIX: "IM"=NOT +"PIOUS"
[From Latin "impius" : "in"-= not;
+ "pius"="dutiful"]
lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents)
- UNORTHODOX
-
PREFIX: "UN-" = "NOT"
+ "ORTHODOX"
["un", "not", + Middle English "orthodoxe", from Old French, from Late Latin "orthodoxus", from Late Greek "orthodoxos" : Greek "ortho-", "ortho-" + Greek "doxa", "opinion" (from "dokein", "to think".]
not following established ways of thinking
- INVIOLABLE
-
PREFIX: "IN" = "NOT"
+ "VIOLABLE"
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin "inviol bilis" : "in"-, "not"+ "viol re", "to violate"]
secure, as not able to be violated
- INDEFATIGABLE
-
PREFIX: "IN" = "NOT"
+ "DEFATIBABLE"
[Obsolete French "indéfatigable", from Latin "indfatgbilis" : "in"-, "not" + "dfatgre", "to tire out"]
Incapable or seemingly incapable of being fatigued; tireless
- INCORRIGIBLE
-
PREFIX: "IN" = "NOT"
+ "CORRIGIBLE"
[Middle English, from Latin "incorrigibilis" : "in"-, "not" + "corrigere", "to correct"]
Incapable of being corrected or reformed
- UNFETTERED
-
PREFIX: "UN-" = "NOT"
+ "FETTERED"
[Middle English "feter", from Old English. See "ped-" in Indo-European Roots.]
free from restraints; liberated
- INSATIABLE
-
PREFIX: "IN" = "NOT"
+ "SATIABLE"
[Middle English "insaciable", from Old French, from Latin "nsatibilis" : "in"-, "not"+"satire", to fill]
Impossible to satisfy
- INCORPOREAL
-
PREFIX: "IN" = NOT
+ COPOREAL
[Middle English "incorporealle", from Latin "incorporeus" : in-, "not"+ "corporeus", "consisting of a body"]
Lacking material form or substance