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Ellis 26-30
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abject | sunk or cast down, to a low condition; wretched; deserving contempt |
| conjecture(n) | guess; inference |
| dejected(adj) | downcast; discouraged; depressed |
| eject | throw out; expel; evict |
| inject | force; introduce; throw in |
| interject | thrown in between; insert |
| object | protest; disapprove |
| project | thrust; plan; project ones voice |
| projectile | body (bullet, missle) to be shot or otherwise thrown forward |
| ject | throw, cast |
| reject | discard; refuse to take |
| subject | force to undergo something unpleasant or inconvenient |
| advert | turn attention; refer |
| aversion | feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to turn away from it; strong dislike |
| avert | prevent; avoid |
| controversy | dispute; debate; quarrel |
| convert | transform, a liquid to a solid |
| diversion | entertainment; amusement |
| divert | 1. turn aside 2. amuse; entertain |
| extrovert | someone turned outward, focused on outside manners, rather than inner concerns |
| inadvertently | without turning ones mind to a matter at hand; carelessly |
| incontrovertible | not able to be, turned opposite, not open to question |
| introvert(n) | turned inward, focused on feelings on the inside rather than being focused on the outside |
| introvert(v) | turn inward |
| invert | turned upside down |
| obverse | side turned toward the observer; the front of a coin |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good; corrupt; wrongheaded |
| pervert | TURN away from right or truth; give the wrong meaning to |
| revert | return; go back as |
| vert(vers) | turn |
| versatile | able to turn with ease from one thing to another |
| verse | line of poetry |
| vertigo | condition in which one feels that one's surroundings are turning about; dizziness |
| commitment | consignment to prison or mental institution pledge |
| demise | death; sending or putting down |
| emissary | person sent out on a mission |
| emit | send out; give off |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals; |
| missile | weapon capable of being propelled to hit s distant object |
| missive | written message sent; letter |
| remiss | careless; lax; negligent |
| remission | lessening, relieving; or disappearance; forgiveness; cancellation |
| remit | send money; due forgive, have ones sins remitted |
| transmit | convey, cause something to go from one person or place to another |
| mis | send |
| locut | speak, talk |
| circumlocution | roundabout way of speaking |
| colloquial | conversational; informal |
| colloquy | talking together; conference; conversation |
| elocution | art of speaking out or reading effectively in public |
| eloquent | speaking with a force and fluency; movingly expressive |
| grandiloquent | using lofty or pompous words |
| interlocutor | questioner one who participates in a conversation |
| loquacious | talkative; garrulous |
| obloquy | speaking against; censure; reproach bad repute |
| auriferous | bearing or yielding gold |
| coniferous | bearing cones; as the pine tree |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor; usually fragrant |
| pestiferous | infected with bearing a disease evil |
| proliferous | producing new growth rapidly |
| somniferous | bearing or inducing sleep |
| vociferous | producing a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy |
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GraceLott
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