Semester 1 Review
Terms
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- agnostic
- one who beleives that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic; without faith, skeptical
- Atrophy
- the wasting away of a body ordan or tissue; any progessive decline of failure; to waste away
- recumbent
- in a reclinig position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting
- enervate
- to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble, hamstring
- exigency
- urgency, pressure; urgent demant, pressing need; an emergency
- delineate
- to portray, sketch, or describe in accurate and vivid detail; to represent pictorially
- jocular
- humorous, jesting, jolly, joking
- testy
- easily irritated; characterized by impatience and exasperation
- motif
- a principal ide, feature, theme or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a deisign
- plenary
- complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members
- indubitable
- certain, not be doubted or deneid
- ubiquitous
- present or existing everywhere
- pecuniary
- consisting of or measured in money; of or related top money
- moot
- open to discusion and debate, unresolved; to bring up for discussion, a hypothetical law case argued by students
- fiat
- an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or conciousness
- intermittent
- stopping and beginning again, sporadic
- bastion
- a fortified place; stronghold
- disarray
- disorder, confusion; to throw into disorder
- figment
- a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion
- ignominy
- shame and disgrace
- ludicrous
- ridiculous, laughable, absurd
- mordant
- biting or caustic in thought, manner, style; sharply or bitterly harsh
- penchant
- a strong attractionor inclination
- overweening
- conceited, presumptuous; excessive, immoderate
- abject
- degraded; base, contemptible, cringing, servile; complete and unreleived
- hallow
- to set apart aw holy or sacred, sactify, consecrate; to honor greatly revere
- incumbent
- obligatory, required; one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of
- indictment
- the act of accusing; a formal accusation
- nuance
- a subtle or slight variation(in color, meaning, quality), delicate gradation or shade of difference
- strategem
- a scheme to outwit or deceive an opponent or to gain an end
- grouse
- a type of game bird; a complaint; to complain, grumble
- frenentic
- frenzied, highly agitated
- inane
- silly, empty of meaning or value
- neophyte
- a new convert, biginner, novice
- reputed
- according to reputationor general beleif; having widespreadacceptance and good reputation; alleged
- fecund
- fruitful in offspring or vegetation, intellectuall productive
- sylvan
- pertaining to a characteristic of forests; living or located in a forest, woody, wooded
- sumptuous
- costly, rich, magnificent
- esoteric
- intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret
- garner
- to acquire as the result of effort; to gather and store away, as for future uses
- pusillanimous
- contemptibly cowarldy or mean-spirited
- acuity
- sharpness(particularly of the mind or senses
- depraved
- marked by evil and corruption, devoid of moral principles
- diatribe
- a bitter and prolonged verbal attack
- complicity
- involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
- consumate
- complete or perfect in the highest degree; to bring to a state of completion or perfection
- glean
- to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities or grain left in a filed by the reapers
- flotsam
- floating debris; homeless, impoverished people
- effigy
- a crude image of a despised person
- nettle
- a prickly or stinging plant; to arouse displeasure, impatience, or anger; to vex or irritate severly
- equity
- the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment; somethingthat is fair; the money value of a property above and beyondany mortgage or other claim
- derelict
- someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; left abandoned; neglectful of duty
- mundane
- earthly, wordly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary
- idiosyncrasy
- a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify
- sophistry
- reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound; a fallacy
- travesty
- a grotesque or grossly inferior imition; a disguise; to imitate in a broad or burlesque fashion
- surveillance
- a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation
- concord
- a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant
- incarcerate
- To imprison, confine jail
- perspicacity
- keenness in observing and understanding