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Vocab 6 (La)
Language Arts
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| Extraneous | not pertinent or relevant |
| interlude | a brief entertainment |
| interface | to connect 2 things so they will work together |
| intramural | within the walls, as of college |
| embellish | to enhance |
| internecine | equally harmful to all concerned |
| encroachment | an intrusion upon another's land |
| extraterrestrial | an alien |
| introvert | introspective |
| extrovert | an outgoing person |
| introspection | a looing into one's own thoughts |
| engender | to give life to; cause |
| futility | a condition of hopelessness |
| jocose | joking, playful, and merry |
| relentless | never letting up; persistent |
| feckless | carless, irresponsible, or ineffectual |
| civility | a courteous act, gesture, or statement |
| financier | an expert in money matters |
| senility | one making excessive profits |
| comatose | almost unconscious |
| hapless | consistently having bad luck |
| humility | total absense of vanity or egotism |
| morose | gloomy, sullen,and fretful |
| en-,em- | (into, intensive) |
| extra-, extro- | (outside,beyond) |
| inter- | (between, among) |
| intro-,intra- | (inside,w/in,inward) |
| -eer,-ier | (a person who) |
| -ility | (the quality of) |
| -less | (w/out, lacking) |
| -ose | (possessing qualities of) |
| effervescent | bubbling over, as with optimism |
| esacpist | advoiding reality |