Vocab 6-12
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- Adonis
- A exceptionally handsome young man; a flower
- aegis
- sponsorship, protection
- bacchanal
- a follower of Bacchus, the god of wine, a drunken reveler, and orgy.
- Cassandra
- One who predicts doom or disaster but is never believed
- conucopia
- abundance, horn of plenty
- cupidity
- excessive desire for wealth
- erotic
- concerning sexual love/desire
- herculean
- tremendously difficult and demanding; resembling Hercules in size, power, or courage.
- hydra
- a persistent or many-sided problem that presents new obstacles as soon as old ones are solved.
- iridescent
- displaying lustrous colours like those of the rainbow
- narcissism
- excessive admiration of oneself; norman liu.
- odyssey
- a long series of wanderings, especially when filled with notable experiences or hardships
- Olympian
- majestic, incomparably superior; pertaining to the olympic games
- palladium
- anything believed to provide proteciton or safety; a safeguard or guarantee of integrity of social institutions
- phoenix
- a person or thing of peerless beauty; a person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or annihilation.
- aberrant
- deviating from what is normal or typical.
- anthropomorphism
- attributing human shape to gods, objects, animals
- archetype
- model; origoinal pattern; prototype.
- authoritarian
- characterized by unquestionaing obedience to authority
- catharsis
- the relieving of emotions by art; the allevation of fears by bringing them to consciousness
- demography
- the science of vital statistics
- epidemiology
- the branch of medicine that investiges the causes and controls of epidemics
- euthanasia
- method of causing death painlessly
- extrovert
- person who is active and expressive; a person who is outgoing
- psychic
- of the psyche or mind; beyond natural of known physical processes; MEWTWO!
- psychopath
- a person afflicted with a mental disorder
- psychotherapy
- using forms of mental treatment to cure nervous disorders
- schizophrenia
- a mental disorder characterized by delusions of persecution and omnipotence.
- subliminal
- below the threshold of conscious perception
- trauma
- an emotional experience that has a lasting psychic effect.
- aficionado
- a fan; devotee
- barrio
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part of city where spanish speaking people live;
Meicans:Barrio as Negros:Ghetto - bonanaza
- rich pocket of ore; any source of wealth
- bravado
- pretended courage
- desperado
- bold outlaw; dangerous criminal
- flotilla
- a small fleet
- grandee
- a nobleman of the highest rank
- hacienda
- large estate; country house
- lariat
- lasso; rope used for tethering grazing horses
- machismo
- manly self assurance; masculine drive; virility
- manana
- tommorow; at some indefinite time in the future
- palmetto
- small palm tree
- renegade
- deserter; traitor
- siesta
- midday nap
- torero
- bullfighter on foot
- anachronism
- anything that is out of place in time; merlyn
- anon
- soon; shortly
- antebellum
- before the war; especially before the American Civil War
- antediluvian
- old fashioned; before the flood
- atavism
- reversion to a primitive type; resemblance to a remote ancestor
- augury
- the art of prophecy; an omen
- biennial
- happening every two years
- chronology
- arrangement of events in time; determination of dates
- diurnal
- daily; of the daytime
- eon
- long, indefinite period of time; thousands of years
- ephemeral
- short lived; transitory
- epoch
- noteworthy period
- generation
- the period of time between the birth of one group and its offspring
- score
- twenty people or objects; twenty years
- tercenternary
- a period of 300 years
- abut
- border on; adjoin
- bane
- cause of death, ruin or distress
- deign
- to think it beneath one's dignity; condescend; give
- eke
- to supplement; to manage to make a living with difficulty; to use frugally
- knell
- to ring in a slow, solemn way; toll; to call or announce by a mournful ringing; an omen of death or failure
- mete
- to allot, distribute, or apportion
- moot
- discussion or argument of a hypothetical law case; debatable; so hypothetical as to be meaningless
- mulct
- to punish by a fine or by depriving of something; to extract by froud or deceit
- plumb
- perfectly vertical; directly; to test or sound with a plumb line; to discover the facts of; to fathom, solve or understand
- quail
- to draw back in fear; lose heart or courage; cower
- roil
- to make a liquid cloudy or muddy; to stir up or agitate; to make angry; rile
- shunt
- to move or turn to one side; to shift of switch from one track to another
- svelte
- slender and graveful; suave; poished
- thrall
- slave or bondman; a person under the moral or psychological domiation of something or someone; slavery
- tryst
- an appointment, as by lovers; to meet.
- abscess
- swollen, inflamed area of body tissues
- aphasia
- losso of the power to use or understand words, usually cause by brain injury
- arteriosclerosis
- a thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, as in old age
- benign
- beneficial; not malignanat
- biopsy
- the cutting out of a piece of tissue for diagnostic examination by microscope
- cadaver
- dead body; corpse for dissection
- carcinogen
- any substance that causes cancer
- comatose
- as if in a coma; lethargic
- etiology
- the science of the causes and origins of disease
- malingerer
- one who fakes inllness and pretends to be suffering
- mastectomy
- the surgical removal of a breast
- prosthesis
- replacement for a missing part of the body
- simian
- of or like a monkey or an ape
- theraputic
- curative; serving to heal
- vasectomy
- the surgical removal of the duct that conveys the male sperm.
- behemoth
- huge animal; something enormous
- bestial
- savage; like an animal
- bovine
- an ox, cow, or related animal; having oxlike qualities; slow, dull, stupid, or stolid
- canivorous
- flesh eating
- equine
- a horse; of, like, or characteristic of a horse
- feline
- a member of the family that includes lions, tigers, jaguars, and wild and domestic cats; resembling or suggestive of a cat, as in suppleness, slyness, treachery, or stealthiness
- harbinger
- forerunner
- leonine
- of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion
- porcine
- of or pertaining to swine or pigs; piglike
- predator
- an animal that preys on others; on who abuses others for his own gain.
- saurian
- of or having the characteristics of lizards; a lizard
- ursine
- of or characteristic of a bear
- venomous
- malicious, spiteful, poisonus
- vixen
- a femal fox; a quarrelsome shrewish, or a malicious woman
- vulpine
- of, resmebling, or characteristic of a fos; clever, devious, or cunning.