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English Vocab 1.000
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aberration | something unpredictable and usually troublesome |
| Meteoroligical | having to do with weather |
| perpetrate | to commit (as in a crime) |
| happening | an event during an occurrence |
| denotation | a words literal definiton |
| connotation | a meaning that comes to be associated with a word over time |
| impinge | to touch upon or unfluence |
| fraud | something that is not genuine, or fake |
| vicarious | describing and experience that is fully but is realized only on an imaginative level |
| inert | unmoving, or extremly slow |
| monstrosity | anything which is considered unacceptable or frightening because of ignorance |
| backwater | an area within a larger body of water and lying outside the influence of the current, its water tends to stagnate and become home to impurites |
| sneer | a look that communicates a sense of contempt |
| secular | not religious |
| impetus | the driving force behind something |
| garish | loud, vulgar |
| symbiosis | mutual interdependence between two people or different types of animals who gain something important from the transaction |
| cerebral | brainy |
| archeype | universally observed pattern of thought or behavior |
| encompass | to enclose in a circle |
| goad | to push or otherwise pressure a person |
| acquiesce | to give away |
| converge | to come together |
| ad hoc | a condition that is irregular |
| parenthetical | an element within a sentence that is set off and enclosed by commas |
| auspicious | a positive sign of future outcome |
| indictment | refers to an accusation brought by a grand jury on the basis of testimony |
| juxtapose | to place two different things side by side for comparison |
| wrought | archaic past participle of work |
| agency | the actions of an agent |
| emblem | a sign of a larger whole |
| catalyst | an addition to a pre-existing mix which pulls those elements together in the form of a reaction |
| enthrall | to cause someone to be enslaved by an all-consuming passion for another person |
| neologism | a new word, generally made-up to meet a need of the moment |
| crimp | to create an end of something or reduce its volume by pinching in one or more of the sides |
| protege | one who is protected and guided by a mentor while progressing toward a higher level of maturity |
| vapid | feelings by the speaker to be shallow/ empty |
| gratuitous | actions or behaviors that stand out for being inapropriate |
| syntax | the organization of words in a sentence |
| antecedent | the noun or pronoun to which a pronoun refers |
| torpid | sluggish, numb |
| clincher sentence | sentence which concludes one paragraph and leads the reader into the next |
| honorific | a title given to express esteem and respect but having no reference to an office of any kind |
| recapitulate | to go over again |
| chimera | a fire breathing female monster with a lions head, goats body, and a serpents tail |
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