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List 14 Vocabulary
List 14 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |