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Joy of Vocabulary 22
Vocab 22
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abiogenesis | theory that life can originate from nonliving matter; spontaneous generation |
| abyss | seemingly bottomless pit or gulf; chasm; anything immeasurably deep |
| agnostic | person who is not committed to believing in either the existence or nonexistence of God or a god |
| amnesia | loss of memory |
| amnesty | general pardon for an offense, including a political offense against a government |
| amorphous | without definite form; shapeless; vague |
| anaerobic | able to live or grow in the absence of oxygen |
| anemia | red cell or hemoglobin deficiency in the circulating blood; paleness; lack of vigor |
| anesthesia | partial or complete loss of the sense of pain, with or without loss of consciousness, artificially induced by drugs |
| anodyne | drug that relieves pain; anything that soothes or comforts |
| anomaly | irregularity; departure from the common rule; abnormality |
| anorexia | loss of appetite, especially when prolonged |
| aphasia | partial or complete loss of power to use and understand words |
| apolitical | cont connected with political matters; of no political significance; uninterested in politics |
| asexual | occuring or produced without sexual action; sexless |
| asphyxiation | loss of consciousness due to lack of oxygen or presence of poisonous gases; suffocation |
| asylum | inviolable place where one can be free from arrest; protection; sanctuary; shelter |
| asymptomatic | without evidence of disease; symptomless |
| atrophy | wasting away or decreasin in size of a body organ or tissue |
| atypical | not typical; irregular; abnormal |