Vocab final (dec)
Terms
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- incarnation
- a particular physical form or version of something
- lev
- light
- mal
- bad
- odysssey
- a long wandering journey, spiritual quest
- odometer
- an instrument to measure the distance traveled
- recrimination
- an accusation in retaliation for an accusation against oneself
- Grav
- heavy, weighty, serious
- impediment
- something that interferes with movement or progress
- carnage
- great destruction of life
- primiparious
- bearing a first offspring
- rectilinear
- moving in a straight line
- catalyst
- agent of change
- pacify
- to soothe anger or agitation; to subdue by armed action
- enamored
- charmed or facinated; inflamed with love
- curriculum vitae
- a shory resume
- prerogative
- a special or exclusive right
- pedestrian
- ordinary
- diffraction
- breaking up of light waves
- ped
- foot
- caveat emptor
- let the buyer beware
- implement
- to take steps to fulfill or put into practice
- orthodox
- conventional
- sonic
- involving sound
- hostage
- a person given or held to insure that an agreement, demand, or treaty is kept or fulfilled
- rector
- head of a church, headmaster
- hypochondriac
- a person unduly concerned with their health
- epithet
- a discriptive word, an insulting word or phrase
- inimical
- hostile, unfriendly, or harmful
- venue
- a place where a trial is held
- malicious
- desiring to cause pain
- induce
- persuade, bring about
- dragon's teeth
- seeds of conflict
- carn
- flesh
- antedate
- to date before
- dis
- apart
- precursor
- one that goes before and indicates the coming of another
- augean stable
- a condition ot place marked by great filth or corruption
- a posteriori
- relating to or derived by reasoning from known or observed facts
- symmetrical
- balanced
- ante meridiem
- morning
- prob/prov
- prove or proof
- leavening
- something that lightens and raises
- replete
- fully or abundantly filled or supplied
- incipient
- starting to come into being or become evident
- genuflect
- kneel
- carnivorous
- meat eating
- venereal
- having to do with sexual intercourse of diseases transmitted by it
- concurrent
- happening at the same time
- stoic
- seemingly indifferent to pleasure or pain
- rect
- straight, right
- amphitheater
- a theater or stadium
- diffident
- lacking confidence; timid
- requisition
- a demand or request made with proper authority
- ced/cess
- to go
- pyrrhic victory
- a victory won at an excessive cost
- protracted
- drawn out, continued, or extended
- de facto
- in effect
- spartan
- marked by simplicity and strict self-denial
- malign
- to make harsh and often false statements about
- orthodontics
- dentisrty for crooked teeth
- carnal
- having to do with bodily pleasures
- detract
- the decrease the importance, value, or effectiveness of something
- thermal
- relating to heat, insulation
- creditable
- worthy of praise
- beligerence
- aggressiveness, combativeness
- jac/jec
- throw, hurl
- pact
- an agreement between two or more people ot groups
- derogatory
- expressing a low opinion of someone or something
- posterior
- on the back
- complement
- something that fills up or makes perfect; a counterpart
- execute
- to carry out or perform
- modus operandi
- procedure
- rog
- to ask
- aquisitive
- eager to acquire; greedy
- erroneous
- mistaken, incorrect
- curr/curs
- to run
- a fortiori
- all the more certainly
- incriminate
- the show evidence of involovement in a crime or fault
- dyslexia
- reding disorder
- hom, homo
- same
- gravity
- weighty importance, seriousness, ot dignity
- prim
- first
- vor
- to eat
- decriminalize
- to remove or reduce the criminal status of
- thermocline
- area between warm and cold water
- auditor
- financial examiner
- accede
- to give into a request or a demand, to give approval or consent
- advent
- a coming or arrival
- homonym
- pronounced or spelled alike, but with different meanings
- lethargic
- lazily sluggish; indifferent or apethetic
- metr
- measure
- discursive
- passing from one topic to another
- cap/cep/cip
- take, seize
- conducive
- tending to promote, encourage, or assist
- hypo/hyp
- under, beneath, down
- inhospitable
- not welcoming; unfriendly, providing no food or shelter
- protean
- displaying great versatility or variety
- son
- sound
- reprobate
- a person of thoroughly bad character
- antechamber
- waiting room
- ad hominem
- based on personaltities
- hypothermia
- subnormal temperature of the body
- finite
- having definite limits
- malnourished
- poorly nourished
- paramour
- a secret lover
- hades
- the underground home of the dead in greek mythology
- antecedent
- that which comes before
- probity
- absolute honesty and uprightness
- resonance
- continuing or echoing sound
- cata
- down
- epiphyte
- a plant that obtaine it's nutrients from the air and rain
- protoplasm
- part of a cell
- auditory
- relating to hearing
- hospice
- a place or program to help care for the terminally ill
- herbivorous
- plant eating
- post
- after or behind
- eu
- well
- modus vivendi
- compromise
- provenance
- origin or source
- cursory
- hastily and carelessly done
- apollonian
- harmonious, ordered, rational, calm
- am/im
- to love
- nestor
- senior leader in one's field
- hypothetical
- imagined for purposes of example
- aud
- having to do with hearing (word part)
- orhography
- the spelling of words according to standard usage
- sequential
- arranged in order ot in a series
- malevolent
- showing intense ill will or hatred
- ante
- before, in front of
- perfidy
- faithlessness or treachery
- rebellion
- open defiance and oppostion
- poly
- many
- hypocrisy
- saying one thing and doing another
- obsequious
- excessively submissinve, obedient, or flattering
- carpe diem
- enjoy the moment without much concern for the future (seize the day)
- precedent
- something done or said that may be an example or rule to guide later acts of a similar kind
- rectitude
- integrity
- rectify
- make right
- prodigal
- recklessly or wastefully extravagant
- amicable
- friendly, peaceful
- homophone
- sound alike but have different meanings or spellings
- gravitate
- to move or be drawn to something
- prototype
- model
- fiduciary
- having to do with trust
- affinity
- sympathy; attraction, relationship
- approbation
- a formal or official act of approving
- inquisition
- a questioning that is often harsh or severe
- hector
- to bully
- ambient
- existing or present on all sides
- ambiguous
- doubtful or uncertain, unclear
- cred
- to believe
- hendonism
- way of life with pleasure as the goal
- arrogate
- to seize without much justification
- therm/thermo
- warm
- ple
- to fill
- reception
- the act of recieving
- euphemism
- polite term
- fin
- end
- adjacent
- near, sharing a common border
- disseminate
- spread widely
- duc
- to lead
- polyphony
- music with 2 or more harmonious melodies
- dyspeptic
- beset by indigestion
- protocol
- rules of behavior
- voracious
- huge appetite; very eager
- evangelism
- crusading term
- gravitas
- great or very dignified seriousness
- carnival
- merrymaking before lent
- prot/proto
- first in time
- affidavit
- a sworn statement in writing
- intractable
- not easily handled, led, taught, or controlled
- dys
- bad, difficult
- euphoria
- great happiness
- ambi/amphi
- on both sides, around
- ep/epi
- upon, besides
- gravid
- pregnant or enlarged with something
- dissonant
- unharmonious
- ambivalent
- holdong opposite feelings and attitudes at the same time
- procrustean
- ruthelessly disregarding individual differences
- expidite
- to speed up the process
- calypso
- a folk song or style of singing with lively rhythm and words are made up by the singer
- inflection
- change in pitch
- polyglot
- one who can speak many languages
- bellicose
- warlike, agressive, quarrelsome
- croesus
- a very rich person
- eugenic
- promoting superior offspring
- catatonic
- motionless; suffering from schizophrenia
- tract
- drag or draw
- seduction
- temptation to wrong; attraction or charm
- sibyl
- a femal prophet or fortune teller
- pacifist
- a person opposed to war or violence
- conjecture
- to guess
- ag
- do, go, lead, drive
- antebellum
- existing before a war, especially before the american civil war.
- appease
- to make peaceful and quiet; to calm, satisfy
- cicerone
- a guide
- creed
- a statement of basic beliefs
- dystrophy
- muscular deterioration
- fid
- faithfulness
- postmodern
- having to do with movement in art, architecture, and literature
- infinitesmal
- extremely or immeasurably small
- ephemeral
- lasting a short time
- hostel
- an inexpensive place to stay overnight
- inaudible
- impossible to hear
- quis
- to seek or obtain
- erratic
- having no fixed course; lacking consistency
- flexor
- muscle
- midas touch
- the talent of making money in every venture
- polymer
- a chemical compound
- de jure
- by right
- penelope
- a modest domestic wife
- dissipate
- scatter
- bona fide
- authentic or genuine
- retraction
- a taking back ot withdrawl; a denial of what one has previously said
- ad hoc
- for this purpose
- ven/vent
- come
- err
- to wander
- metric
- relating to peotic rhythm or the metric system
- trajectory
- the curved path an object makes when thrown
- ultrasound
- diagnostic technique
- deflect
- turn aside
- credence
- mental acceptance of something as true or real
- concession
- the yielding of a point or privalege unwillingly; an admission
- postmortem
- after the event
- credulity
- readiness to believe on little evidence
- stygian
- extremely dark, gloomy, and forbidding
- homologous
- developing from the same or similar ancestor
- Hosp/host
- host; guest
- errant
- wandering ot moving about aimmlessly
- thermocouple
- temperature gauge
- mercurial
- having rapis and unpredictable changes of mood
- omnivorous
- eats plants and animals
- synagogue
- the center of worship and a communial life of a jewish congregation
- alter ego
- intimate friend
- audition
- a critical hearing
- a priori
- relating to or derived by reasoning from self evident propositions
- agitate
- to stir up or excite
- orthopedics
- treatment of skeletal defects
- olympian
- lofty, superior, and detached
- bell
- war
- dyfunctional
- impaired
- consequential
- resulting, important
- alleviate
- to lighten, lessen, or relieve
- deduction
- subtraction
- tachometer
- a device used to measure the speed of rotation
- siren
- a woman who tempts men with bewitching sweetness
- elevate
- to lift up or raise; to raise in rank or status
- cataclysm
- a violent disaster
- thermonuclear
- nuclear reaction requiring high heat
- deplete
- to reduce in amount by using up
- perquisite
- a privilege or profit added to ones salary
- abrogate
- to ignore or abolish
- ex post facto
- coming after
- crim
- fault or crime
- aberrant
- straying from the right, normal, or natural type
- dionysian
- frenzied, orgiastic
- stentorian
- extremely loud, a deep richness of sound
- palladium
- a silver-white metal related to platinum
- criminology
- the study of crime
- venturesome
- inclined to seek out risk or danger
- levity
- frivolity, lack of appropriate seriousnes
- corpus delicti
- the basic facts necessary to prove that a crime has been committed
- jovial
- jolly, expansively good-natured
- Pac/Peas
- agree; peace
- expident
- convenient, often without regard for what's right
- primal
- primitive, first in importance
- disprove
- to show that something is not what it has been claimed to be
- epitaph
- an inscription on a grave
- catacomb
- an underground cemetery
- sec/sequ
- to follow
- orth/ortho
- straight, right, true
- definitive
- authoritative and final. specifying perfectly or precisely
- protagonist
- hero or heroine
- posthumous
- occuring after death
- bacchanalian
- frenzied, orgiastic
- polychromatic
- multicolored
- primordial
- first created, existing from the very beginning
- dejected
- downcast, depressed
- primogeniture
- an exclusive right of inheritance belonging to the eldest son of a single set of parents
- flect/flex
- to bend
- perceptable
- noticable or able to be felt by the senses
- dissension
- disagreement
- delphic
- unclear, ambiguous, or confusing
- sybaritic
- marked by a luxurious or sensual way of life
- suceptible
- open to some influence; responsive
- anterior
- toward the front
- litigate
- to carry on a lawsuit by judicial process