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Vocab Activity One
Vocabulary List 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Counterpart | A person or thing closely resembling another, especially infunction: Our president is the counterpart of your prime minister. |
| Derive | To receive or obtain from a source or origin (usually followed byform) |
| Endearment | An action or utterance showing affection: to murmur endearments. |
| Equine | Of, pertaining to, or resembling a horse: bold, equine face. |
| Feline | Catlike; characteristic of animals of the cat family: a feline tread. |
| Flock | To gather or go in a flock or crowd: They flocked around the football hero. |
| Juxtapose | To place close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast. |
| Leonine | Of or pertaining to the lion. |
| Lumbering | Moving clumsily or heavily, especially from great or ponderous bulk: overloaded wagons lumbering down the dirt road. |
| Lupine | Pertaining to or resembling the wolf. |
| Ophidian | Belonging or pertaining to the suborder Ophidia (Serpentes), comprising the snakes. |
| Origin | The first stage of existence; beginning: the origin of Quakerism in America. |
| Placid | Pleasantly calm or peaceful: unruffled: tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid waters. |
| Porcine | Resembling swine; hoggish; piggish. |
| Progression | The act of progressing; forward or onward movement. |
| Scamper | To run or go hastily or quickly. |
| Stolid | Not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; in passive. |
| Taurine | Of, pertaining to, or resembling a bull |
| Ursine | Of or pertaining to a bear or bears. |
| Vulpine | Of or resembling a fox, or cunning or crafty. |
| Canine | Of or like a; dog pertaining to or characteristic of dogs: canineloyalty. |