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Ms. Ellis English
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| concur(v.) | 1. agree; be of the same opinion 2. happen together |
| concurrent | running together; occurring at the same time |
| current(adj) | now in progress;prevailing |
| current(n) | flow |
| curriculum | course of study in school or college |
| cursive | running or flowing, handwriting |
| cursory | running over hastily; superficially done |
| discursive | wandering from one topic to another; rambling |
| excursion | going our or forth; expidition |
| incur | 1.meet with something undesirable 2. bring upon oneself |
| incursion | 1. rushing into 2. hostile invasion;raid |
| precursor | forerunner; predecessor |
| aggressive | disposed to attack |
| egress | means of going out; exit |
| gradation | 1. change by step or stages 2. act of grading |
| grade | step; stage; degree |
| gradient | rate at which a road, railroad track, temperature, etc. rises or falls |
| graduated | arranged in regular steps |
| progressive | going forward to something considered better |
| regressive | disposed to move backward |
| retrograde | 1.going backward 2. becoming worse |
| retrogression | act of going from a better to a worse state |
| transgress | step beyond the limits or barriers, go beyond, break a law |
| biped | two-footed animal |
| centipede | one pair of legs on most of its segments, hundred legged creature |
| expedite | 1. facilitate 2. accelerate or speed up |
| impede | hinder; obstruct; block |
| impediment | hinderance; obstacle; defect |
| millipede | wormlike animal with two pairs of legs on its segments thousand legged creature. |
| pedal | lever acted on by the foot |
| pedestal | support or foot of a column or statue |
| pedestrian(n.) | person traveling on foot |
| pedestrian(adj.) | commonplace; unimaginative; dull |
| velocipede | childs tricycle |
| contact | touching or meeting; association |
| contiguous | touching; in physical contact; adjoining |
| contingent | dependent on something else; accidental |
| intact | untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole |
| intangible | 1. not capable of being percieved by the sense of touch 2. hard to grasp or define exactly |
| tact | sensitive mental perception of what is appropriate on a given occasion |
| tactful | having or showing contact; diplomatic |
| tactile | 1. pertaining to the sense of touch 2. tangible |
| tangent(adj.) | touching at only one point |
| tangent(n.) | line or surface meeting a curved line |
| tangential | merely touching slightly connected; disgressive |
| apprehend | seize or take into custody |
| apprehensive | quick to understand or grasp anxious |
| comprehensive | including very much; extensive |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing |
| reprehend | find fault with; rebuke |
| reprehensible | deserving of censure |
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GraceLott
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