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english 2 sec 26-30
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abject | sunk or cast down to a low condition; downtrodden; deserving contempt; wretched |
| conjuncture | guess; supposition; inference |
| dejected | downcast; discouraged; depressed |
| eject | throw out expel; evict |
| inject | force; introduce |
| interject | throw in between; insert; interpose |
| object | protest; disaprove |
| project | thrust or throw forward; plan |
| projectile | body to be shot or othrwise thrown forward |
| reject | discard; refuse to take |
| subject | force to undergo something unpleasant or inconvenient; expose; make liable to |
| ject | throw, cast |
| vert | turn |
| advert | turn attention; refer |
| aversion | feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to turn away from it; strong dislike; antipathy |
| avert | prevent; avoid |
| controversy | dispute; debate; quarrel |
| convert | transform |
| diversion | entertainment; amusement |
| divert | turn aside |
| extrovert | someone turned outward |
| inadvertently | without turning one's mind to the matter at hand; carelessly; unintentionallly |
| incontrovertible | not able to be turned opposite or disputed; not open to question |
| introvent n | someone shy, diffedent |
| introvent v | turn upside down |
| obverse | side turned toward the observer; therefore, the front of a coin |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good; corrupt; wrongheaded |
| pervert | turn away from right or truth; give a wrong meaning to |
| revert | return; go back |
| versatile | able to turn with ease from one thing to another; adaptable |
| verse | line of poetry |
| vertigo | conditionin which one feels that one's surroundings are turnin abou; dizziness |
| mis (miss, mit, mitt) | send |
| commitment | consignement/ sending to prison, 2. 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 |
| missive | written messsage sent; letter |
| remiss | negligent/ sent back |
| remission | lessening, relieving, or disappearance; forgiveness |
| remit | send money due |
| transmit | convey; send across or through |
| locut (loqu) | speak, talk |
| circumlocution | roundabout way of speaking |
| colloquial | conversational; informal |
| elocution | art of speaking out or reading effectively in public |
| eloquent | speaking with force and fluency |
| grandiloquent | using lofty or pompous words; bombastic |
| interlocutor | questioner, 2. one who participates in a conversation |
| loquacious | talkative; garrulous |
| obloquy | speaking against; censure, reproach, 2. bad repute |
| fer (ous) | bearing, producing, yeilding |
| auriferous | bearing or yielding gold |
| coniferous | beasring cones, as the pine tree |
| odoriferous | wieldind and odor, usually fragrant |
| pestiferous | infected with or bearing disease; pestilential |
| proliferous | producing new growth rapidly ad extensively |
| somniferous | bearing or inducing sleep |
| vociferous | producing a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy |
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