Randolph English Exam Vocab
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- domicile
- a home; residence
- indigenous
- occuring in or characterizing in an area; native
- pedagogue
- a teacher
- naive
- gullible
- puerile
- childish, immature
- progeny
- children or descendants; offspring
- nonentity
- a person or thing of no importance
- innate
- possessed at birth; inborn
- vested
- absolute; without question
- patriarch
- a founding father or wise man
- pacify
- to calm; to make quiet
- domineer
- to dominate, to be bossy
- mortify
- to discipline oneself by denial
- patriarch
- the male head of a family or tribe
- matrix
- the surrondings within which something begins or develops
- familial
- having to do with family
- domestic
- tame, trained to live with humans
- patronage
- business clientele; customers
- divest
- to take away something belonging to someone, especially a right, title, or property; to disposses
- pathos
- a feeling of sympath; a quality that arouses pity or tenderness
- inimical
- harmful
- enamored
- in love with; charmed by (used with of)
- orthopedics
- branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement
- deluge
- a downpour; a great flood
- somnambulate
- to walk while sleeping
- amicable
- friendly; peaceable
- autonomy
- the condition of being self-governing; independence
- autocrat
- a ruler who has absolute or unlimited power; a despot
- antipathy
- a hatred or dislike
- heterogeneous
- having parts that are unrelated or completely different
- deluge
- to flood
- nonentity
- something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination
- pedant
- a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding
- somnolent
- drowsy; sleepy
- egoism
- conceit; valuing everything according to one's personal interest; excessive confidence int the rightness of one's own opinion
- cupidity
- greed; avarice
- appease
- to calm; to satisfy or relieve
- indigenous
- inborn
- dormant
- asleep; not in an active state
- essence
- a substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug
- genre
- a type, class, or category, especially of fine art or literature
- dysentery
- severe diarrhea
- moribund
- about to die or end
- complacent
- self-satisfied; smug
- monogamy
- marriage to a single mate
- covet
- to crave or desire, especially something belonging to someone else
- anthropology
- the scientific study of the origins, cultural development, and customs of human beings
- pacific
- peaceful; serene
- entity
- something that has a real or independent existence
- engender
- to give rise to; to bring into existence
- patrimony
- a family inheritance
- hydrophobia
- fear of water
- domain
- range of one's control; territory
- philanthropy
- a charitable gift, act, or organization
- progenitor
- a direct ancesor; an originator of a line of descent
- uxorious
- dominated by one's wife
- dyslexia
- a serious diifficulty learning to read in the usual way
- feminist
- a supporter of women's claims to the same rights and treatment as men
- genocide
- the planned annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group
- fraternize
- to socialize with an enemy population
- pathological
- abnormal in behavior
- mortify
- to shame
- matriculate
- to register as a student at a college or university
- nascent
- emerging; coming into existence
- odious
- hateful; distasteful
- euthanasia
- the act of painlessly killing a suffering perosn or animal; mercy killing
- vested
- a concern for something from which a person expects to get personal benefit (used with interest)
- essence
- a perfume
- gynecology
- the brnach of medecine dealing with disorders and treatment of the reproductive sytem in women
- feminism
- the beleif that women should posses the same political and economic rights as men
- vestment
- a garment that indicates position or authority, especially the robes worn by clergy
- investiture
- a ceremony in which a person formally receives the authority and symbols of an office
- patronize
- to treat someone as an inferior
- patronize
- to go to regularly
- misanthrope
- a person who hates all people
- Renaissance
- A revival of humanism in fourteenth-century to sixteenth-century Europe
- implacable
- impossible to calm or appease
- xenophobia
- fear or hatred of what is strange or foreign, or of foreigners
- genteel
- well-mannered; refined; polite. falsely polite; having affected good manners.
- apathy
- indifference
- vested
- dressed, especially in vestments
- virile
- having certain characteristics traditionally associated with masculinity, especially physical strength, vitality, and assertiveness
- ingenious
- cleverly inventive and resourceful
- phobia
- strong, irrational fear
- avuncular
- like an uncle
- inimical
- hostile; unfriendly
- misogyny
- hatred of women
- empathy
- the ability to identify with someone else and understand that person's situation or feelings
- patriarch
- an Old Testament ancestor
- pathological
- referring to pathology, the study of disease
- divest
- to strip away, especially of clothes
- pathological
- caused by a disease
- pacify
- to end war or violence
- ablution
- washing of the body, especially as a ritual purification
- Genesis
- the first book of the Old Testament
- philanthropy
- goodwill to fellow human beings
- placid
- showing calmness, peacefulness, or composure
- humane
- having worthy qualities of human beings, such as kindness or compassion
- genesis
- a beginning or origin
- essence
- the basic element; the identifying characteristic
- pedant
- a scholarly show-off
- fraternal
- pertaining to brothers; brotherly
- domestic
- related to the family or household
- gentry
- in Britain, the class under the aristocracy
- genealogy
- a record of descent from one's ancestors; the study of family records
- fraternize
- to be friendly with
- naive
- childlike; unsophisticated
- hydrophobia
- rabies
- homogeneous
- of the same kind or sort
- somnolent
- causing sleep
- gentile
- anyone not of the Jewish faith
- domestic
- indigenous to a paritcular country; native
- postmortem
- an examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy
- autopsy
- the examination of a corpse to determine the cause of death
- automaton
- a person who behaves in a mechanical, routine manner; a robot
- amity
- friendship; friendly relations
- congenital
- existing at birth but not hereditary
- misogamy
- hatred of marriage
- gentry
- aristocratic or well-bred people
- homogeneous
- composed of parts that are alike
- bibliophile
- a lover of books
- renaissance
- a rebirth; a renewal
- patronage
- support; encouragement
- homicide
- the killing of one person by another; a person who kills another
- bigamy
- marriage to two mates
- placate
- to calm; to pacify; to appease
- postmortem
- an analysis of something that is over
- matriarchy
- a society ruled or controlled by women
- patronymic
- name derived from a paternal ancestor
- apathy
- lack of feeeling, energy, or interest
- acrophobia
- fear of heights
- humanities
- branches of knowledege concerned with human beings and their culture: philosophy, literature, and the five arts, as distinguished from the sciences
- travesty
- an absurd or inferior imitation
- humanism
- a philosophy in shich interests and values of human beings are of primary importance
- dominion
- control; rule; area of influence