vocab p. 113-134
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- forearm
- part of the arm from the wrist to the elbow(literally, "front part of the arm")
- forebear
- ancestor, forefather (literally, "one who has been or existed before")
- foreboding
- feeling beforehand of coming trouble; misgiving;presentiment;omen
- forecast
- estimate beforehand of a future happening; prediction; prophecy
- forefront
- (literally,"front part of the front") foremost place or part; vanguard
- foregoing
- going before; preceding; previous
- foremost
- standing at the front; first; most advanced; leading; pricipal; chief
- foreshadow
- indicat beforehand; augur; portent
- foresight
- act of looking forward; prudence; power of seeing beforehand what is likely to happen
- foreword
- front matter preceding the text of a book; proface; introduction; prologue
- misbelief
- wrong or erroneous belief
- misdeed
- bad act; wicked deed; crime; offense
- misfire
- (literally, "fire wrongly") fail to be fired or explided properly
- misgiving
- uneasy feeling; feeling of doubt or suspicion; foreboding; lack of confidence
- mishap
- bad happening; misfortune; unlucky accident; mischance
- mislay
- put or lay in an unremembered place
- mislead
- lead astray (in the wrong direction); deceive; delude; beguile
- misstep
- wrong step; slip in conduct or judgment; blunder
- outgrow
- grow beyond or too large for
- outlandish
- looking or sounding as if it belongs to a foreign land beyone ours; strange; fantastic
- outlast
- last longer than; outlive; survive
- outlook
- looking ahead or beyone; prospect for the future
- output
- (literall, what is "put out") yield or product; amount produced
- outrun
- run faster than
- outspoken
- speaking out freely or boldly; frank; vocal; not reserved
- outwit
- get the better of by being more clever; outsmart; outfox
- overbearing
- domineering; bossy; inclined to dictate
- overburden
- place too heavy a load on; burden excessively; overtax; overload
- overconfident
- too sure of oneself; excessively confident
- overdose
- quantity of medicine beyone what is to be taken at one time or in a given period; too big a dose
- overestimate
- make too high an estimate(rough calculation) of the worth or size of something or someone; overvalue; overrate
- overgenerous
- too liberal in giving; excessively openhanded
- overshadow
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1. cast a shadow over; overcloud; obscure
2. be more important than; outweigh - oversupply
- too great a supply; an excessive supply
- overwhelm
- cover over completely; overpower; overthrow; crush
- unabridged
- not abridged; not made shoter, uncut, complete
- unbiased
- not biased; not prejudiced in favor of or against; fair
- unconcern
- lack of concern, anxiety, or interest; indifference; apathy
- undeceive
- free from deception or mistake ideas; set straight; disabuse
- ungag
- remove a gag from; release from censorship
- unnerve
- deprive of nerve or courage; cause to lose self-control; upset; enervate
- unquenchable
- not quenchable; not capable of being satisfied; insatiable; inextinguishable
- unscramble
- do the opposite of scramble; restore to intelligble form
- unshackle
- release from a shackle (anything that confines the legs or arms); set free; liberate
- unwary
- not wary; not alert; heedless; rash
- underbrush
- shrubs, bushed, etc., greowing beneath large trees in a wood; undergrowth
- underdeveloped
- insufficiently developed because of a lack of cap[ital and trained personel for exploiting natural resources; backward; behindhand
- undergraduate
- (literally, "lower than a graduate") a student in a college or university who has not yet earned a bachelor's degree
- underpayment
- insufficient payment
- underprivileged
- insufficiently privileged; deprived through social or economic oppression of some fundamental rights supposed to belong to all; disadvantaged; deprived
- underscore
- draw a line beneath; emphasize; stress
- undersell
- sell at a lower price than
- undersigned
- person or persons who sign at the end of (literally "under") a letgter or document
- understatement
- a statement below the truth; a restrained statement in mocking contrast to what might be said
- understudy
- one who "studies under" and learns the part of a regular performer so as to be a substitue if necessary
- upcoming
- coming up; being in the near future; forthcoming; approaching
- update
- bring up to date; modernize; renovate
- upgrade
- raise the grade or quality of; improve
- upheaval
- violent heaving up, as of the earth's crust; commotion; violent disturbance; outcry
- upkeep
- maintenance ("keeping up"); cost of operating and repairing
- uplift
- lift up; elevate; raise
- upright
- standing up straight on the feet; erect; honest; scrupulous
- uproot
- pull up by the roots; remove completely; eradicate; annihilate
- upstart
- person who has suddenly risen to wealth and power, especially if he or she is conceited and unpleasant
- upturn
- upward turn toward better conditions
- withdraw
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1. take or draw back or away; take out from a place of deposit
2. leave; retreat - withdrawal
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1. act of taking back or drawing out form a place of deposit
2. retreat; exit; departure - withdrawn
- drawn back or removed from easy approach; socially detached; unresponsive; introverted
- withhold
- hold back; keep from giving; restrain; curb
- withholding tax
- sum withheld or deducted from wages for tax purposes
- withstand
- stand up against; hold out; resist; endure
- notwithstanding
- (literally, "not standing against") in spite of; despite