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Vocab Lesson 4
Moore Vocab lesson 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Puerile | Childish, immature |
| orthopedics | branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissue related to movement |
| pedagogic | a teacher |
| Pedant | a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding |
| Entity | something that has a real or independent existence |
| nonentity | a person or thing of no importance |
| essence | the basic element, the identifying characteristic |
| moribund | about to die or end |
| mortify | to shame |
| postmortem | an examination to determine the cause of death, an autopsy. |
| Euthanasia | the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal, mercy skilly |
| innate | possessed at birth, inborn |
| naive | childlike, unsophisticated |
| nascent | emerging, coming into existence |
| renaissance | a rebirth, renewal |