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Vocab Term 1
Vocabulary Words Section 1-6
Question | Answer |
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Defer | To postpone; To delay |
Dilatory | Tending to postpone or delay |
Infer | 1) To use available evidence to form a conclusion. 2) To guess |
Perennial | 1) Lasting for an indefinitely long period of time. 2) Continuing regularly 3) Living longer than 3 years(plants) |
Permeate | To penetrate through spaces; To spread throughout |
Persevere | To hold fast to a task or purpose despite handicaps or obstacles. |
Adversity | Hardship; Misfortune |
Avert | 1)To turn away (one's eyes) 2)To prevent |
Distort | 1)To change something to make it false 2)To twist (something) out of its normal shape |
Introvert | A person whose thoughts and actions are directed inwards |
Prose | 1) Ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter(that is without verse) 2) Referring to speech or writing other than verse |
Retort | 1) To reply quickly and sharply, often as if in reply to an accusation. 2) A quick,witty, sometimes biting reply |
Subservient | Excessively willing to yield; submissive |
Exhilarate | To cheer; to stimulate; to enliven |
Exonerate | 1) To free from blame 2) To relieve of a task |
Exorbitant | Excessive |
Expound | To set forth an an explanation or view of something in detail. |
Impostor | One who deceives by using a false identity |
Proponent | One who argues in support of something |
Extranious | 1) Coming from outside; Foreign 2) Not essential or vital |
Extrovert | A person chiefly interested in things outside them selves; Directing thoughts outwards rather than inwards |
Medium | 1) A substance or element through which something is transmitted. 2) A person thought to have communications with the spirits of the dead |
Non-Sequitur | A statement that does not follow logically from evidence. |
Obsequious | Excessively willing to yield to others |
Sequester | 1) to go into hiding; to seek solitude 2) To isolate |
Abstain | To refrain from something by ones choice |
Commodious | Spacious, roomy, as in a house |
Pertinacious | Holding firmly, even stubbornly to a belief |
Tenacity | Hanging on to something persistently or stubbornly |
Adjunct | An added part not necessary to the whole |
Injunction | An authoritative command or order |
Stringent | 1) Severe; constricted; tight 2)Pertaining to scarcity of money |
Subjugate | To conquer; to dominate completely |