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Semester 1 Sophomore
Weeks 1 - 15 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| versatile (adj) | turning easily from one skill to another |
| avert (v) | to turn away or aside (especially one's eye) |
| perverse (adj) | corrupt, improper, incorrect |
| divert (v) | to turn from one purpose or course to another |
| VER/VERS | to turn or to turn around |
| victimize (v) | to make a victim of; trick, deceive, or injure |
| provincial (adj) | having to do with a province. lacking polish, culture, and broad experience |
| invincible (adj) | incapable of being conqured or overcome |
| evince (v) | to be outward evidence of; show or reveal |
| VINC/VICT | to conquer or to overcome |
| sustenance (n) | something that gives support or strength |
| tenable (adj) | capable of being held of defended; reasonable |
| tenacious (adj) | stubborn or persistent in clinging to a thing |
| abstinence (n) | holding oneself back voluntarily from indulging an appetite or craving |
| TEN/TIN/TAIN | hold or hold on to |
| superimpose (v) | to put or place one thing over something else |
| repository (n) | a place or container where something is stored |
| disposition (n) | tendency, inclination; basic outlook or attitude |
| component (n) | a separate part of whole; an ingredient or element |
| PON/POS | put or place |
| precision (n) | exactness of definition or statement |
| incisive (adj) | impressively direct and decisive |
| excise (v) | to cut out, especially surgically |
| concise (adj) | brief and condensed, especially in expression or statement |
| CIS | to cut, cut down, or slay |
| prognosis (n) | the chance of recovery from given disease or condition |
| incognito (adj) | in disguise or with one's identity concealed |
| diagnosis (n) | the identification of a disease by its symptoms |
| cognitive (adj) | having to do with the process of knowing, including awareness, judgement, and understanding |
| GNI/GNO | to know |
| sensuous (adj) | highly pleasing to the senses |
| sentiment (n) | a thought or attitude colored by feeling; opinion |
| sentient (adj) | aware of ad responsive to sense impressions |
| sensational (adj) | exciting an intense but usally brief interest or emotional reaction |
| SENT/SENS | to feel |
| prototype (n) | an original model on which something is patterned; a first, full-scale, usually working version of a new type or design |
| protoplasm (n) | the substance that makes up the living parts of cells |
| protocol (n) | an original copy or record of a document; a code of diplomatic or military rules of behavior |
| protagonist (n) | the main character in a literary work |
| PROT/PROTO | first in time or first formed |
| discordant (adj) | being at odds, conflicting, not in harmony |
| cordial (adj) | warm, friendly, graciousan |
| concordance (n) | index of the important words in a book or in an author's works, with the passages in which they occur |
| accord (v) | to grant; to be in harmony; agree |
| CORD | heart |
| partisan (n) | a person who is strongly devoted to a particular cause or group; a guerrilla fighter |
| participle (n) | a word hat is formed from a verd but used like an adjective |
| impartial (adj) | fair and not biased; treating or affecting all equally |
| impart (v) | to give from one's store or abundance; to make known; disclose |
| PART | part |
| pernicious (adj) | extremely harmful or destructive |
| noxious (adj) | harmful or destructive to living things |
| necrosis (n) | the usually localized death of living tissues |
| internecine (adj) | deadly; mutually destructive; involving conflict within a group |
| NEC/NIC/NOX | killing or slaying |
| replete (adj) | fully or abundantly filled or supplied |
| implement (v) | to take steps ro fulfull or put into practice |
| deplete (v) | to reduce in amount by using up |
| complement (n) | something that fills up or makes perfect; the amount needed to make something complete; a counterpart |
| PLE | to fill |
| catatonic (adj) | relating to or suffering from a form of schizophrenia; showing an unusal lack of movement activity or expression |
| catalyst (n) | a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction or lets it take place under different conditions; someone or something that brings about or speeds significant change or action |
| catacomb (n) | an underground cemetery of connecting passageways with recesses for tombs |
| cataclysm (n) | a violent and massive change of the earth's surface; a momentous event that results in great upheavel and destruction |
| CATA | down |
| synagogue (n) | the center of worship and communal life of a Jewish congregation; temple |
| prodigal (adj) | recklessly or wastefully extravagant; spendthrift |
| litigate (v) | to carry on a lawsuit by judicial process |
| agitate (v) | to move something with an irregular, rapid, violen action; to stir up or excite |
| AG | do, go, lead, drive |
| paramour (n) | a lover, often secret, not allowed by law or custom |
| inimical (adj) | hostile, unfriendly, or harmful |
| enamored (v) | charmed or fscinated; inflamed with love |
| amicable (adj) | friendly, peaceful |
| AM/IM | to love |
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