week1,2 vocabulary
Terms
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- interminable
- unending
- premise
- proposition upon a conclusion is drawn
- acost
- to greet first
- efferent reader
- reading purposefully like to pass a test
- compound
- to add to
- menaces
- intention to inflict harm
- throng
- a great number of people
- rudimentary
- basic, elementary
- implore
- beg for assistance
- plethora
- overabundance
- nigh
- near in space time or relation
- matron
- a mature woman
- rural
- the country
- gesticulate
- to use lively gestures
- nuance
- shade of difference
- drudgery
- dull, difficult work
- voracious
- consuming great quantities
- cognitive
- involving conscious intellectual activity
- tinge
- small amount of
- paradox
- seemingly self-contradictory situation
- realm
- someone's special field
- eminent
- of outstanding reputation
- aliteracy
- being able to read but not interested in doing so
- abound
- existing in great quantities
- intrepid
- courageous
- aesthetic reader
- reading for pleasure
- indiscriminate
- carelessly chosen
- urban
- citified
- pretext
- an excuse
- annals
- historical records
- hapless
- unlucky
- rigor
- strictness, harshness
- engagement
- involved, to be drawn in
- technology
- related to science of engineering
- perceive
- to come to an understanding of
- vigilant
- alert
- avid
- enthusiastic
- cajole
- coax, wheedle
- enhance
- to make greater
- remedial
- affording remedy, trying to fix something
- vocational courses
- courses related to specific area of employment
- automaton
- machine that behaves like a person
- passe
- past one's times
- aspirations
- strong desire to reach achievement
- irate
- angry
- lament
- to feel sorrow or regret for
- replete
- completely filled with
- fabricate
- to make up a lie
- prognosticate
- to be able of what will happen in the future
- illeteracy
- lack of ability to read and write
- adroit
- clever
- suburban
- outside the city
- atrophy
- wasting away, deterioration, or diminution
- furtive
- sly
- steeped
- to be completely soaked in something
- badger
- to continually nag
- felon
- criminal
- compelling
- having a powerful and irresistible effect
- reticent
- uncommunicative