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Unit 3
Vocab 7-9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aver | to assert or affirm with confidence |
| uxoricide | the act of murdering one's wife |
| obliterate | to destroy all traces of |
| travesty | any grotesque or debassed likeness or imitation |
| impart | to make known |
| indeterminate | not clear |
| perfidy | deliberate breach of faith or trust |
| sui generis | unique |
| luminary | a body that gives light/ important figure |
| precarious | unstable/uncertain |
| lineage | lineal descendant from an ancestor |
| semifinal | the round preceding the final |
| verdict | a judgement |
| tripartite | divided into three parts |
| suicide | taking your own life |
| multilinear | idk... many lines? xD |
| diffident | timid, shy, restrained |
| alliteration | the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in apt alliteration's artful aid. |
| parricide | the act of killing one's parent or close relative |
| terminally | occurring at the end |
| imprecation | a curse |
| mollification | to soften in feeling or temper |
| docile | easily managed |
| sorority | a club of females |
| fervid | heated in spirit (enthusiasm) or temperature |
| congeries | a collection of items |
| matriarchy | a social organization in which people are governed by women (mother) |
| bellipotent | mighty in war |
| compendium | a full list/ summary |
| paternal | characteristic of a father |
| homo sapien | human |
| aggravate | to make worse |
| fraternal | brotherly |
| matricide | the act of killing one's mother |
| mollify | to mitigate |
| patrilineal | descent through the male line |
| belligerent | warlike |
| homicide | killing another human being |
| fervent | having great warmth or great intensity of spirit; hot, burning, glowing |
| impending | about to happen |
| suggestive | referring to another person's thoughts |
| bellicose | belligerent |
| patron | a customer or sponsor |
| genesis | the beginning |
| conjecture | speculation |
| regalia | rich fancy clothes |
| amanuensis | a person hired to copy or write what another person says (secretary) |
| formulate | to devise or develop |
| corpulent | fat |
| affluent | abundant |
| victor | a winner |
| ambience | environment |
| prevalent | superior and/or widespread |
| opportune | appropriate or convenient |
| maintain | to continue in a certain state |
| ambivalent | having mixed feelings |
| uniform | constant |
| regicide | the killing of a king |
| manufacture | making something |
| genealogy | a record of ancestry |
| valiant | brave, excellent |
| corpuscles | any minute particle/ unattached cell |
| deportment | behavior |
| project | a specific task |
| invincible | insurmountable |
| fluent | spoken or written with ease |
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