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