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Pre-Ap English 1
Packet #5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Coeval | (A) Existing at the same time or during the same age; contemorary; (N) A person or thing of the same time or age; contemporary. |
| Cogent | (A) Forcefully convincing as in making a point or an argument; compelling, often because of relevance. |
| Colleage | (N) A (fellow) worker in the same occupation; an associate. |
| Commensurate | (A) Having equal or corresponding measure, size, value, worth, or importance. |
| Commodious | (A) With due or ample measure and thus comfortable, spacious, suitable or well-appointed. |
| Concur | (V) To act together, to agree with, to cooperate. |
| Consensus | (N) A general feeling of agreement, an opinion held by all or almost all. |
| Convivial | (A) Lively together, in the sense of including feasting, drinking, and company, sociable and festive. |
| Correlate | (V) To bring two or more things into mutual complementary parallel or reciprocal relationship, to coordinate. |
| Correspondance | (N) Communication as by the exchange of letters; the letters themselves, a similarity likeness or agreement between two things or situations. |
| Corroborate | (V) To confirm (a story) by gicing evidence or proof; to attest the truth of something. |
| Autumnal | (A) In any way characteristic of fall: colorful, mature, declining, nostalgic and so on. |
| Cauterize | (V) To burn or sear, as with as iron or needle, to kill dead tissue to prevent infection. |
| Chauvinistic | (A) Excessively (mindlessly) devoted to one's country or one's race, group, sex and so on. |
| Colloquial | (A) Related to or suitable for common conversation of informal writing or speech. |
| Fatalistic | (A) Characteristic of the notion that all things are controlled by fate and are thus beyond human influence; willing to accept every event as inevitable; often pessimistic. |
| Filial | (A) Like, related to, or befitting a son or daughter, usually in a good sense. |
| Galvanize | (V) To startle, (electrically) into action, to excite, to spur. |
| Plagarize | (V) To steal the worlds, writtings or ideas of another and present them as one's own. |
| Pluralistic | (A) Having more than one part pr form; characteristic of a society with many different bases of political, economic and social power. |
| Segacity | (N) The quality of wisdom and good judgment and thus powerful, original or influential. |
| Tenacity | (N) The quality of holding on firmly, as to beliefs or long-range goals, persistent toughness. |
Created by:
Taylor Shirey
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