Final Exam Vocabulary Review
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- speculate
- 1. to think about 2. engage in a risky business venture
- sagacious
- wise
- trama
- 1. severe bodily injury 2. emotional shock
- affront
- 1. insult or offend deliberately 2. a deliberate insult act
- disseminate
- to scatter or spread widly
- faculty
- 1. the natural powers of the mind and body like sight or hearing 2. inborn ability 3. the teachers of a school
- facet
- 1. the small flat surfaces on a stone 2. one of the sides of something
- remunerate
- pay or reward
- paraphernalia
- 1. personal belongings 2. equipment associated with an activity
- adroit
- clever at dealing with difficult situations
- impart
- 1. disclose 2. bestow
- articulate
- 1. pronouce distinctly 2. express ones thoughts feeling or beliefs 3. speak in a clear effective language
- tangible
- 1. real; touchable 2. understandable
- contend
- 1. to struggle with 2. to maintain or assert 3. conflict or struggle 4. a point made in arguement
- contemporary
- 1. a person living at the same time as another
- Plumb
- 1. measure the depth of water 2. to reach the deepest part 3. understand by examining; solve 4. vertical
- nuture
- 1. give sustenance to 2. process of raising ones young
- practicable
- 1. capable of being done 2. useable
- dogma
- 1. an unproven principale or belief that is true 2. overly positive and assertiver about something that cant be proved
- precocious
- early devolpmen of ablities
- despot
- a ruler with absolute power
- consecrate
- 1. set apart as holy 2. to devote to a cause
- moribund
- close to death
- venerate
- show great respect for
- cleave
- 1. to cling or be faithful to 2. to split with force or a sharp object
- erudite
- having extensive knowledge or learned
- imcapacitate
- make helpless
- Detract
- take away, esp. from value, beauty or importance
- Array
- 1. large group of people ir things 2. an orderly arangement 3. to place in order 4. dress up
- propagate
- 1. reporduce 2. cause to reproduce 3. foster the spread of
- rudeimentary
- 1. not yet fully developed 2. elementary
- antiquity
- 1. the ancient world; before the middle ages 2. quality of great age 3. objects from ancient times
- ingenious
- marked by imagination
- depreciate
- 1. become less in value 2. to belittle
- impervious
- not able to be destroyed
- oratory
- 1. the art of public speaking 2. a public speaker
- magnanimous
- generous or forgiving
- fallacy
- false or mistaken idea
- repose
- 1. lie at rest 2. place power in a person 3. rest or relaxation
- encumber
- 1. weigh down 2. impeded the action of
- commiserate
- to sympathize
- enunciate
- 1. pronouce clearly 2. to announce
- empathize
- show or feel understands of anothers feelings or problems
- crusade
- 1. long stuggle of a just cause 2.engage in such a struggle
- embody
- 2. put an idea into a form that can be seen 2. incorporate
- exorbitant
- exceeding normal bounds
- impoverish
- 1. to make poor 2. to take away
- prodigy
- 1. person who shoes remarkable talent at an early age 2. extrodinary event