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Ellis final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ject | "throw" "cast" |
| abject | sunk or cast down, to a low condition; wretched; deserving contempt |
| conjecture | guess; inference |
| interject | thrown in between; insert |
| Vert (vers) | "turn" |
| advert | turn attention; refer (adverting to a previous topic) |
| avert | prevent (turn away) avoid |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good; corrupt; wrongheaded |
| emissary | person sent out on a mission |
| missive | written message sent; letter |
| remission | lessening, relieving; or disappearance; forgiveness; cancellation |
| Mis (miss, mit, mitt) | "send" |
| Locut (loqu) | "speak" "talk" |
| loquacious | talkative; garrulous |
| obloquy | 1. speaking against; censure; reproach 2. bad repute |
| Fer (ous) | "bearing" "producing" "yielding" |
| proliferous | producing new growth rapidly and extensively |
| aegis | shield or protection; sponsorship (an international force under the aegis of the united mations...) |
| Cassandra | one who prophesies doom or disaster; pessimist (lets not pay attention to those Cassandra's) |
| Draconian | cruel; harsh; severe' ironhanded |
| Elysian | delightful; blissful; heavenly |
| eristic | prone to controversy; disputatious; argumentative |
| hector | bully; intimidate with threats; bluster |
| laconic | using words sparingly; terse; concise (all i recieved in response to my request was the laconic reply "wait") |
| Lucullan | sumptuous; luxurious (thanksgiving dinner is a lucullan feast) |
| mercurial | 1. quick; vivacious; active; lively 2. inconstant; unstable; subject to rapid and unpredictable mood changes |
| narcissistic | in love with oneself' excessively fascinated and gratified by one's own physical and mental qualities; egocentric |
| paean | song or hymn of praise, joy, or triumph |
| philippic | bitter denunciation; tirade(in an hour-long philippic, the legislator denounced the lobbyists opposing her bill) |
| protean | exceedingly variable; readily assuming different forms or shapes (a protean organism, is continually changing its shape) |
| stentorian | very loud |
| terpischorean | pertaining to dance |
| A | "on, in, in a state of" |
| amiss | wrong; imperfect; faulty (is anything amiss) |
| asunder | in an apart position; apart |
| With | against, back |
| be- | a. all around, on all sides, thoroughly b. cause to be c. affect with cover with |
| beset | attack on all sides; surround |
| wise | way, manner |
| dom | dignith, office, state of being, realm, those having the character of |
| some | a. full of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the -some word.. b. group of |
| lissome | lithesome; limber; nimble |
| mettlesome | full of mettle (courage); spirited |
| Ling | a. one pertaining to or converned with whatever is denoted in the first part of the ling- word b. little, young |
| hireling | one whose only interest in his or her work is the hire (pay) |
| stripling | lad |
| behoove | be necessary for; be proper for |
| heath | tract of wasteland |
| wane | decrease; dwindle |
| wax | grow; increase |
| yclept | named; called |
| virile (manly) | having the physical capabilities of a male |
| taurine( bullish) | 1. of or like a bull 2. relating to taurus |
| sanguine (bloody) | red; ruddy, as a sanguine complexion 2. confident, as a sanguine of success |
| masticate | chew |
| abridge | shorten |
| peculate | steal |
| capitulate | succumb, yield |
| prevaricate | lie |
| excoriate | flay, fleece, skin |
| imbibe | drink |
| interlocutor | questioner |
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