click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
studyexamguide
Term | Definition |
---|---|
amend | to change by removing errors or making corrections or adiitions |
conformity | similarity in form, action, or thought; action in agreement with customs or popular opinion |
diminish | to make or become smaller; to reduce |
endeavor | a serious attempt or effort |
endeavor (V) | to make an effort or to do or accomplish |
evasive | tending to trying to avoid or escape from escaping, especially by using cleverness. |
gullible | easily decieved or tricked |
inferior | poor quality; below average |
inferior 2 | low or lower in quality |
loathe | to feel intense dislike or disgust for |
nostalgia | a longing for what is past or far away or for happier times of long ago |
notable | deserving notice or attention; remarkable |
procrastinate | to put off |
stamina | the ability to resist |
torrent | a swift flow or heavy rain |
unnerve | to cause to lose one's courage or confidence |
vulnerable | capable of being hurt emotioally or phsiycally; easily hurt |
antidote | as substance or treatment given oppose the effects of poison or something that works to correct or cure a bad or evil condition |
bedlam | great confusion and disorder |
designate | to show by mark, sign, or symbol; to call by a certain name; to selcect or appoint for a certain purpose or duty; to appoint |
ethical | relating to what is right or wrong in behavior; agreeeing with the rules of society or of a paticular group; moral |
extansice | large in area, amount, effect, influence, and so on |
indispensable | absolutly nessercery; essential |
medival | like or having to do with the middle ages |
oust | force to leave or drive out |
preposterous | so against the truth or ridiculous |
seep | t o ooze or leak out |
succumb | to give in under pressure or to die |
vanity | extreme pride |
vigilant | staying watchful and alert |
witticism | a clever remark |
accomplice | one who knowingly participates with another in a crime; partner in crime |
concur | to defeat or agrree |
crevice | a narrow crack in our thorogh something |
decent | proper and fitting; fairly good |
detract | to take away or lessen |
exotic | foreign; unusual |
flinch | to draw back; wince |
gruesome | causing horror and disgust |
haughty | over proud of oneself |
horde | a large crowd |
makeshift | used as a temporary substitude for the proper desired thing |
phobia | an extreme and unreasonable fear of something |
reluctance | a feeling of being unwillingness |
rivarly | competition; an effort to obtain something |
vocation | an occupation or trade |
admission | confession |
dear | expensive |
decided | un questionable or detrimend |
edge | advantage |
fancy | imagination, fondness, to imagine; |
forge | to form or to move forward slowly |
game | courageous; ready; lame |
rude | crude |
slanted | change the thing |
steal | to move quietly |
stunt | to hold back growth |
tax | to burden |
toy | to play or fool with |
weigh | to consider with carefully |
annihilate | to destroy |
erate | to scold |
brink | the edge |
devise | to invent |
dormant | not active |
drone | humming; tiresome speaking;low humming |
embed | to set firmly |
frenzy | a wild outburst or great excitment |
hurtle | to move swiftly |
improable | unlikely |
jeopardy | great danger |
lax | careless, not strict, loose |
meager | barely eough |
obstruction | an obstacle |
undeniable | unquestionable, and certain |
absurd | ridiculous |
boycott | refusing to buy, sell, or use a product |
clamber | to climb awkwardly |
divert | to change the direction or course of |
forlorn | miserable |
haven | place of safety |
logic | correct reasoning; a way of reasoning |
reconcile | to make satisfied or to make up |
skeptical | showing doubt |
superflous | unnecessary |
tempo | the speed of music, rate of activity |
toxic | posionous |
vivid | clear, bright, strong |
waver | to be unsteady to hesititate |
zoology | the study of animals |