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Eng 11 vocab 9
"Advancing" vocab Ch 9
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| bolster | To hold or to prop up |
| depreciate | to decrease in value or price |
| indiscriminate | not chosen carefully |
| inquisitive | curious |
| nebulous | vague -- cloudy |
| relegate | to assign a less important or satisfying position, place or situation |
| replete | full of, plentiful |
| sedentary | no exercise, sitting around |
| tenet | fundamental belief or principle |
| terse | short, curt, effectively concise. |
| suffix --ate | suffix: usually turns a word into a verb (means "to make") |
| suffix --ive | suffix: adjective (turns a word into a descriptive word) |
| prefix re-- | prefix: means "to do again" (like REpeat) |
| prefix in-- | prefix: can mean "not" or "the opposite of" |
| suffix --ous | suffix: adjective (turns a word into a descriptive word) |