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23-24 Vocabulary PT2
23-24 UIL Vocabulary (chatoyant-erysipelas)
Term | Definition |
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chatoyant | Having a changeable luster. |
chiffonier | A narrow high chest of drawers or bureau, often with a mirror attached. |
Chiricahua | A member of a formerly nomadic Apache tribe inhabiting southern New Mexico, southeast Arizona, and northern Mexico, with present-day populations in Oklahoma and New Mexico. |
chthonic | Of or relating to the underworld. (Greek Mythology) |
circadian | Relating to or exhibiting approximately 24-hour periodicity. |
clerisy | Educated people considered as a group; the literati. |
collocation | An arrangement or juxtaposition of words or other elements, especially those that commonly co-occur, as rancid butter, bosom buddy, or dead serious. |
compleat | 1. Of or characterized by a highly developed or wide-ranging skill or proficiency. 2. Being an outstanding example of a kind; quintessential. |
concavity | The state of being curved like the inner surface of a sphere. |
concretize | To make real or specific. |
consortium | 1. An association or society. 2. The typical collection of benefits arising from marriage, including companionship, love, assistance, and sexual relations, which may have value recognized under law. |
continuum | 1. A continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts except by arbitrary division. 2. The set of all real numbers. (Mathematics) |
contraption | A mechanical device; a gadget. |
Coventry | A city of central England east-southeast of Birmingham. Famous as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century, Coventry was severely damaged in air raids during World War II (November 1940). |
cravenly | Characterized by abject fear; cowardly. |
cretinism | A congenital condition caused by a deficiency of thyroid hormone during prenatal development and characterized by small stature, intellectual disability, dystrophy of the bones, and a low basal metabolism. |
cuesta | A ridge with a gentle slope on one side and a cliff on the other. |
cyclotron | An early particle accelerator in which charged subatomic particles are accelerated spirally outward in a plane perpendicular to a fixed magnetic field by an alternating electric field. |
cytolysis | The dissolution or destruction of a cell. |
Dakar | The capital and largest city of Senegal, in the western part of the country on the Atlantic Ocean. It grew around a French fort built in 1857 and was the capital of French West Africa from 1902 to 1959. |
dariole | 1. A small cooking mold. 2. A dish, as of vegetables, fish, custard, or pastry, that is cooked and served in a small mold. |
decorticate | To remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from; peel. |
decumbent | 1. Lying down; reclining. 2. Botany Lying or growing on the ground but with erect or rising tips: decumbent stems. |
defeasance | A rendering void; an annulment |
definiens | The word or words serving to define another word or expression, as in a dictionary entry. |
dentifrice | A substance, such as a paste or powder, for cleaning the teeth. |
derailleur | A device for shifting gears on a bicycle by moving the chain between sprocket wheels of different sizes. |
despot | A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant. |
diagnostician | A person who diagnoses, especially a physician specializing in medical diagnostics. |
dinghy | A small open boat carried or towed as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft by a larger boat. |
discombobulate | To throw into a state of confusion. |
disinclination | A lack of inclination; a mild aversion or reluctance. |
disseminate | To scatter widely, as in sowing seed. |
doggerel | Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature. |
draconian | Exceedingly harsh; very severe. |
dulcet | Having a soothing, agreeable quality. |
duplicitous | Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech. |
dyspepsia | Disturbed digestion; indigestion. |
eccentricity | Deviation from the normal, expected, or established. |
ecumenism | A movement promoting worldwide unity among religions through greater cooperation and improved understanding. |
effusion | The seeping of serous, purulent, or bloody fluid into a body cavity or tissue. |
ekistics | The science of human settlements, including city or community planning and design. |
eldritch | Strange or unearthly; eerie. |
elutriate | To purify, separate, or remove by washing, decanting, and settling. |
encomiast | A person who delivers or writes an encomium; a eulogist. |
ensconce | To place or conceal in a secure place. |
epicurism | The beliefs, tastes, or lifestyle of an epicure. |
equitation | The art and practice of riding a horse. |
erudition | Deep, extensive learning. |
erysipelas | An acute bacterial infection of the skin and superficial lymphatic vessels, caused by streptococci and marked by localized inflammation and fever. Also called Saint Anthony's fire. |