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Vocabularychapter5.2
Vocabulary for the collage bound student chapter 5 part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| congratulate | express one's pleasure to another person at that person's success |
| gracious | Pleasant; courteous;kindly |
| grateful | feeling or expressing gratitude; thankful; obliged |
| gratify | give or be a sous\ce of pleasure or satisfaction |
| gratis | without change or payment; free |
| gratuitous | 1.given freely 2.unwarranted, as a gratuitous remark |
| gratuity | present or money in return for a favor or service; tip |
| ingrate | ungrateful person |
| ingratiate | establish in the favor or good graces of another |
| immortal | 1.not subject to death 2.not subject to oblivion |
| immortality | 1.eternal life 2.lasting fame |
| moribund | dying, near death |
| mortal(adj.) | Human being; person; individual |
| mortal(n.) | 1. destined to die 2.human 3.causing death; fatal; as a mortal blow |
| mortality | 1.death rate 2.mortal nature |
| mortician | undertaker |
| mortification | shame; humiliation; embarrassment |
| mortify | embarrass; shame; humiliate (literally "make dead" "kill") |
| mortuary | funeral home |
| rigor mortis | stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death |
| corporal | bodily, as corporal punishment |
| corporation | body authorized by law to act as a single person and to have f\rights and duties |
| corpse | dead body |
| corpulent | bulky; obese; very fat |
| corpus | general collection or body of writings, laws etc. |
| corpuscle | 1.blood cell 2. minute particle |
| corpus delicti | 1.facts proving that a crime has been committed 2. body of the victim in a murdercase |
| esprit de corps | spirit of a body of persons; group spirts |