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List 14 Vocabulary
List 14 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Numer | Number |
Enumerate | To mention a number of things one by one |
Fort | Strong |
Fortitude | Courage in pain or adversity |
Ornith | Bird |
Ornithology | The scientific study of birds |
Polis | City |
Metropolis | A very large and densely populated industrial and commercial city |
Fus | Pour |
Infusion | The introduction of a new element or quality into something |
Ego | I |
Egotist | A person who thinks and talks about himself excessively due to an undue sense of self-importance. |
Spir | Breathe |
Aspire | To direct one's hopes or ambitions toward achieving something |
Dia | Across |
Diaphanous | (esp of fabric) Light, delicate, and translucent |
Acr | Sharp |
Acrimony | Bitterness or ill feeling |
Culp | Blame |
Culpable | Deserving blame |
Pernicious | Causing great injury or ruin |
Augment | Increasing; enlarging; to make something greater by adding to it |
Fray | A noisy quarrel or brawl |
Portentous | Ominous and foreboding |
Forswear | To reject or renounce under oath |
Solemnity | Earnestness or seriousness |
Strife | Vigorous or bitter conflict; troubles |
Choler | Anger; wrath; irritability |
Profane | To treat with irreverence or contempt; to defile |