vocab #4
Terms
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- tributary
- a stream flowing into a river
- timorous
- cowardly
- tenacious
- holding fast
- tenacity
- persistency
- tendentious
- biased
- tremulous
- rembiling
- thanatology
- the study of death
- taint
- to contaminate; corrupt
- thrall
- a slave
- trite
- worn out of commonplace
- throng
- a crowd
- truckle
- to submit
- turpitude
- shameful behavior
- trait
- a characteristic
- titanic
- huge
- tussle
- a fight
- transparent
- easily seen through
- temporize
- avoid committing onself; gain time
- terse
- brief
- touchstone
- standard
- tensile
- capable of being streched
- tenuous
- rare; slim
- tantamount
- equal
- tentative
- hypothetical or experimental
- thesaurus
- book of synonyms and antonyms; a dictionary
- transpire
- to occur
- tirbid
- unclear
- trappings
- articles of dress or equipment
- tangent
- touching or achange of course
- tedious
- boring; tiring
- tirade
- an angry speech
- toothsome
- tasty
- terminate
- to end
- treatise
- a book about one particular subject
- transgression
- a violation
- tome
- a large book
- trauma
- a shock
- turgid
- swollen
- tribute
- a gift to show respect
- tactile
- pertaining to the sense of touch
- thwart
- to prevent
- transcend
- to go beyond
- theocracy
- goverment by religious leaders
- truculent
- brutal of cruel
- translucent
- letting light throughy
- tarry
- delay
- threnody
- funeral song
- tortuous
- twisting or winding
- terminus
- last stop
- trenchant
- vigorous or affective
- remporal
- not lasting forever
- truncheon
- a club
- transitory
- breif
- tally
- to add up
- transmute
- to change from one form to another
- tantalize
- tease
- traduce
- to slander
- tryst
- a secret meeting
- treacherous
- disloyal or dangerous
- tranquil
- calm
- truism
- obvious truth
- travail
- hard work
- tenet
- doctrine; beliefs
- tumid
- swollen
- tenure
- time of holding an office
- testy
- irratable
- tatumult
- great noise
- taisman
- a charm
- thermal
- pertainning to heat
- truncate
- to shorten
- trivia
- things that are very important
- tractable
- easy to manage
- throes
- a violent struggle; in agony
- trinity
- group of three
- tinge
- a trace
- trepidation
- fear
- taciturm
- siletn; talking little
- repid
- lukewarm
- treble
- three times as much
- theraputic
- peratining to treatment of disease
- transient
- temporary
- tarn
- small lake
- thspian
- an actor
- taunt
- tight; ready
- torsion
- twisting; blending
- token
- a symbol; unimportant
- transcendental
- supernatural
- temperate
- mild or self-contolled
- titillate
- to excite
- tribulation
- trouble
- titter
- a nervous laugh
- travesty
- a poor imitation
- torso
- the trunk of the human body
- tawdry
- cheap and guady
- torpid
- sluggish
- temerity
- boldness
- temper
- restrain; toughen