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exam study guide j.s
second semester exam.
Question | Answer |
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Aberrant | departing from the usual course; exceptional; abnormal |
accord | to be in agreement; to grant; or a harmonious union of sounds. |
affable | pleasantly easy to approach and talk to; friendly; warm; polite |
Affluent | having an abundance of wealth, property, or other materials. flowing freely. |
allude | to make an indirect referance |
Ambiguity | doubtfulness or uncertaintly of the meaning; unclear; indefinite. |
Amorphous | lacking form |
antipathy | natural aversion; disgust; hatred |
archaic | marked by charicteristics of an eairlier period. |
assimilate | persistant to take in and incorporate as one's own. absorb. |
assidous | continuous; tireless |
atrophy | wasting away of the bodys tissue |
belligerent | warlike; giving or waging war |
besiege | to crowd around; surround |
cacophony | harsh sound |
chronic | continuing frequently |
complacence | a feeling of quiet plesure or security. self satisfaction. |
confluence | a flowing together of two or more streams. |
cosmopolitian | beautician |
credulous | gullible |
cryptic | mysterious; ambiguous |
decadence | decay |
derisive | mocking |
desecrate | to treat with sacrilage; profane |
detriment | loss; damage; injury |
devious | indirect |
diaphanous | very sheer or light; transparent |
dichotomy | to cut into two parts |
disparity | lack of similarity or equality; inequality. |
dissonance | harsh sound; discord. |
divulge | to disclose or reveal |
docile | easily managed or handled |
dynamic | pertaining to energy |
eccentric | not having the same center |
elucidate | to explain |
elusive | hard to capture |
empathized | to experiance empathy |
enumerate | to mention seperatly as if counting |
enunciate | to state as a theory |
ephemeral | lasting only a very short time |
epitomy | a person or thing that is typical of or possesses to a high degree that features of a whole class |
equitable | characterized by fairness |
equivocal | allowing the possibility of several meanings |
excruciating | extremely painful; causing suffering |
expunge | erase or obliterate |
extenuating | to make less serious |
fervent | having or showing great warmth |
forte | a strong point at which one excels |
gregarious | very talkative |
homo | same |
hyperbole | intentional exaggeration |
idiosyncrasy | a chacracterstic or habbit that is strange |
ignominious | humiliating |
impecunious | having little or no money |
impending | about to happen |
impediment | henderance |
impulsion | having the power to effect of impelling |
incisive | biting or penatrating |
infallible | not falliable |
infringe | trespass |
inquisitive | prying |
levity | lack of seriousness |
loquacious | talk constantly |
magnaimous | forgiving an insult |
malevolence | hatred |
malicious | evil |
neoteric | modern; new; or recent |
orthodox | pertaining to any doctorine |
panacea | cure-all. |
pandemonium | wild uproar, chaos |
paradox | contradictory statement |
paragon | a model of excellence |
pedantic | ostentatious on one's learning |
peruse | to read through with thorouhness or care |
philanthropy | an activity preformed with the goal of promoting the well being of a fellow man |
placate | to pacify or appease |
placid | calm or peaceful |
poignant | keenly disstressing to the feelings |
precarious | uncertaint |
proliferate | to increasein number or spread rapidly |
punctilious | strict in actions |
recapitulate | to review by a brief summary |
rectification | to act of setting right |
remonstrate | dissoproval |
resonance | to echo |
salience | the state of being conspicious |
sanguine | hopefull, cheerful |
satiate | to satisfy to a full state |
significant | having or expressing a meaning |
stringent | marked by strictness |
synchronized | to happen at the same time |
tenuous | having little strength |
transgression | violation of law |
travesty | parody |
trite | not fresh or original |
unity | together as one |
veracity | devotion to the truth |
vociferous | marked by or given to vehement outcry |