Final Exam
Terms
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- impervious
- incapable of being penetrated
- contemporary
- a personal living during the same period as another
- prodigy
- a person who shows remarkable talent at an early age
- paraphernalia
- personal belongings
- propagate
- to reproduce; to foster the spread of
- consecrate
- to set apart as holy
- faculty
- any of the natural powers of the mind and body such as sight or hearing
- dogma
- an unproven principle or belief held to be true
- enunciate
- to pronounce clearly
- remunerate
- to pay or reward
- empathize
- to show or feel understanding of another's feelings or problems
- adroit
- clever at dealing with difficult situations
- plumb
- to measure the depth of water
- articulate
- to pronounce distinctly
- oratory
- the art of public speaking
- embody
- to put an idea into a form that can be seen
- venerate
- to show great respect for
- array
- a large group of people or things
- commiserate
- to feel or express sorrow or compassion for
- magnanimous
- generous unselfish or forgiving
- sagacious
- showing sound judgment; wise
- depreciate
- to make or become less in value
- ingenious
- marked by imagination, resourcefulness or cleverness
- facet
- any of the many small flat surfaces on a precious stone made by cutting
- impart
- to make known; disclose
- encumber
- to weigh down or burden
- erudite
- having or demonstrating extensive knowledge
- cleave
- to cling to or be faithful to
- rudimentary
- not yet fully developed
- practicable
- capable of being done feasible
- contend
- to struggle with
- tangible
- real able to be touched
- nurture
- to care for and give sustenance to
- affront
- to insult or to offend deliberately
- moribund
- close to death
- incapacitate
- to make helpless or incapable
- disseminate
- to scatter or spread widely
- impoverish
- to make poor
- trauma
- a severe bodily injury
- crusade
- a prolonged impassioned struggle for what is believed to be a just cause
- precocious
- showing exceptionally early development of abilities
- exorbitant
- exceeding normal bounds
- despot
- a ruler with absolute power or tyrannical control over a group of people
- detract
- to take away esp. from the value of
- speculate
- to think about or make guesses
- fallacy
- a false or mistaken idea
- repose
- to lie at rest
- antiquity
- the ancient world; before the middle ages