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9thgradevocab1
Unit 1 ninth grade vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| A- / AN- | Not, without |
| Agnostic | adj. believing that the knowledge of God is unknowable, n. an agnostic person |
| Anomaly | n. Something unusual, odd, or unexpected; An inconsistency or incongruity |
| -OR / -ER | One who does |
| Instigator | n. A person who initiates a course of action |
| Purveyor | n. 1. A person who supplies food & provisions 2. a person who repeats or spreads information |
| INTER- | Between |
| Intermittent | adj. Alternately stopping and starting again |
| Intervene | v. To come between disputing people, to mediate |
| MAL- / MALE- | Bad or Evil |
| Maladroit | adj. Unskillful or clumsy |
| Malnutrition | n. Lack of proper nutrition |
| -NOV- | New |
| Novelty | n.1. Newness, 2. A new occurrence,3. Something whose value is decorative and short-lived |
| Novice | n. A beginner, adj. Inexperienced |
| -LOGY | The Study Of |
| Ideology | n. The main ideas of a class, group, or movement |
| Psychology | n. The study of the mind |
| RE- | Again |
| Recrimination | n. The act of accusing your accuser |
| Rehash | v. To rework or reuse old material |
| PRE- | Before |
| Precursor | n. 1. A person or thing that came before, a predecessor 2. Something that foreshadows the approach of something else |
| Presumption | n. A logical assumption that something is true |