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Vocab Test 1
2017-18 School Year Mrs. Nawrocki
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Partisan | Noun- A fervent and even militant proponent or supporter of something |
| Rift | Noun- A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) |
| Indispensable | Adj.- Vitally necessary; essential; cannot live without |
| Atavistic | Adj.- related to an ancient way of thinking or behaving; primitive |
| Nondescript | Adj.- Lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting |
| Sacrilege | Noun- Blasphemous behavior, the act of depriving someone of its sacred character Adj.- Blasphemous, offensive |
| Proliferate | Verb- To grow rapidly |
| Condone | Verb- Accept and allow; to continue, excuse or be lenient |
| Dystopia | An imaginary society characterized by human misery, such as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding |
| Utopia | An imaginary place thought to be perfect or ideal |
| Doppelganger | A ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living counterpart |
| Remix | To reassemble or revive a form of art |
| Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing |
| Neologism | A word or phrase which is new to the language; one which is newly coined |
| Etymology | The study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history |
| Prefix | Affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning |
| Root | Basic cause, source, or origin |
| Suffix | A morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative |
| Word Family | A group of words that share a common root to which prefixed and suffixes are added |
| Dys/Dis | Bad, ill |
| Top | Place |
| Neo | New |
| Log/logo/loq | Thought, word, speech |
| Ology | The study of |