Vocab 5-6
Terms
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- Bas-relief
- sculpture whose ornament or figures are somewhat raised above the background
- Debase
- to reduce in dignity or quality
- Declivity
- a downward slope or bend
- Proclivity
- a natural or habitual inclination or tendency
- Leaven
- an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something
- Legerdemain
- sleight of hand
- Leverage
- strategic advantage
- Levitate
- be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity
- Levity
- lightness of manner
- Penchant
- a strong inclination or liking
- Ponderous
- having great mass and weight and unwieldiness, extremely dull
- Imponderable
- a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed
- Preponderant
- superior in number, force, power, or importance
- Echelon
- one of a series of grades in an organization or field of activity; an organized military unit; a steplike formation or arrangement
- Transcendent
- beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding
- Incumbent
- the official who holds an office
- Recumbent
- lying down
- Succumb
- To give up or give in to; to yield, to die
- Hypocondria
- beleif that one is always sick
- Hypothesis
- possible explanation for a set of observations or possible answer to a scientific question
- Cataclysm
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- Catapult
- a machine used in ancient wars that threw objects with great force
- Subjective
- influenced by personal feelings; occurring or taking place within the mind; unreal; based on personal opinion
- Sublimate
- to turn aside an instinctual, perhaps primitive, impulse in favor of a more socially or culturally acceptable activity
- Suborn
- induce to commit perjury or give false testimony, or to commit a crime
- Subterfuge
- something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
- Verisimilitude
- the appearance of truth
- Verity
- quality of being true; lasting truth or principle; Ex. the verity of his testimony; Ex. one of the eternal verities
- Aver
- to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true