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AVID Vocab #5
Question | Answer |
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Prognosticate | to forecast or predict (something future) from present indications or signs; prophesy. |
Ascent | upward movement; a rising movement; movement upward from a lower to a higher state, degree, grade, or status; the act of climbing or traveling up |
Emaciated | to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh. |
Surge | strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep |
Tranquil | free from or unaffected by disturbing emotions; unagitated; serene; placid; peaceful; quiet; calm |
Sanctuary | a sacred or holy place; any place of refuge; asylum; a tract of land where birds and wildlife, esp. those hunted for sport, can breed and take refuge in safety from hunters. |
Ascend | to slant upward; to rise to a higher point, rank, or degree; proceed from an inferior to a superior degree or level: to ascend to the presidency; to move, climb, or go upward; mount; rise: The airplane ascended into the clouds. |
Automaton | a person or animal that acts in a monotonous, routine manner, without active intelligence; mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot. |
Proto | meaning “first,” “foremost,” “earliest form of,” used in the formation of compound words |
Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |