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Word Power Chapter14
Kirklin and Bruley's Classes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Penury | extreme poverty; destitution |
| Vicarious | shared in or experienced by imagined participation in another’s experience |
| Ephemeral | lasting a short time, then vanishing |
| Euphemisms | use of a word or phrase that is less expressive or direct, but also less offensive |
| Badinage | playful, teasing talk |
| Bovine | slow, dull, sluggish; cow |
| Nostalgia | a longing for something of the past |
| Cacophony | harsh, jarring sounds |
| Carnivorous | meat |
| Clandestine | keeping secret or hidden for some illegal purpose |
| Penuria | |
| Parsimonious | stingy, cheap, frugal |
| Indigence | people living in reduced circumstances |
| Destitution | extreme poverty; synonym of penury |
| Fluo | to flow |
| Affluent | possessing large amounts of money |
| Confluence | flowing together |
| Opulentus | wealthy |
| Opulent | living a lavish and luxurious lifestyle |
| Eu | good |
| Pheme | voice |
| Phone | sound |
| Euphony | good sound; pleasant lilt or rhythm |
| Logos | word or speech |
| Eulogy | a speech of praise, usually given at a funeral |
| Euphoria | good feeling; a sense of mental buoyancy and physical well being |
| Thanatos | death |
| Euthanasia | method of painless death inflicted on people suffering from incurable conditions |
| Persiflage | close synonym of badinage; playful speech that may be a bit mocking |
| Cliché | a pattern of words which was once new and fresh, but is now old and overused |
| Bromide | any trite, dull, and fallacious remark that shows little evidence of original thinking |
| Platys | broad or flat |
| Platitude | similar to a cliché, but the speaker is trying to pass it off as new and original |
| Plateau | flat land |
| Odyne | pain |
| Anodyne | a statement made to make the listener feel better |
| Bovis | ox, cow |
| Leonine | like a lion |
| Canine | like a dog |
| Feline | like a cat |
| Porcine | like a pig |
| Vulpine | fox like |
| Ursine | like a bear |
| Lupine | like a wolf |
| Equine | like a horse |
| Piscine | like a fish |
| Nostos | a return |
| Algos | pain |
| Kakos | bad, harsh, or ugly |
| Telephone | really? you need me to define this? I refuse. |
| Euphony | a pleasant sound |
| Phonograph | plays music sort of like a record player |
| Saxophone | a woodwind instrument made by a Mr. Adolphe Sax |
| Xylone | wood |
| Xylophone | a wooden instrument played with mallets |
| Phonetics | the science of the sounds of language |
| Phonics | a method of teaching reading by drilling letter and syllable sounds |
| Carnis | flesh |
| Voro | to devour |
| Herba | herb |
| Herbivorous | subsisting on grains, grasses, or vegetation |
| Omnis | all |
| omniscient | all knowing |
| Omnivorous | eating both meat and vegetation |
| Voracious | devouring; greedy or gluttonous |
| Potens, potentis | powerful |
| Omnipotent | all powerful |
| Potentate | powerful leader |
| Impotent | powerless |
| Potent | powerful |
| Potential | possessing power not yet exercised |
| Sciens | knowing |
| Omnipresent | present everywhere, at all times |
| Ubiquitous | seemingly everywhere |
| Ubique | everywhere |
| Omnibus | for all |
| Carnelian | reddish in color |
| Vale | farewell |
| Carnival | any riotous merrymaking or festivities |
| Carnal | pleasures of the flesh |
| Carnage | great destruction of life |
| Reincarnation | a rebirth or reappearance |
| Incarnate | in the flesh |
| Clam | secretly |
| Surreptitious | stealthy, sneaky, furtive |
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