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Flowers Vocab
Vocab for Flowers for Algernon
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| laboratory | a building, part of a building, or other place equipped to conduct scientific experiments, tests, investigations, etc., or to manufacture chemicals, medicines, or the like. |
| unconscious | not conscious; without awareness, sensation, or cognition |
| contribute | to give (money, time, knowledge, assistance, etc.) to a common supply, fund, etc., as for charitable purposes. |
| shrew | Any of various small, chiefly insectivorous mammals of the family Soricidae, resembling a mouse but having a long pointed snout and small eyes and ears. Also called shrewmouse. |
| maroon | to abandon and leave without aid or resources |
| accomplish | to bring to its goal or conclusion; carry out; perform; finish: |
| advise | to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following |
| petition | to beg for or request (something). |
| acquire | to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: |
| ignorance | the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc |
| justified | to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right |
| equivalent | equal in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.: |
| impaired | weakened, diminished, or damaged: |
| prediction | an act of predicting, an instance of this; prophecy |
| intelligence | capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc. |
| sensation | the operation or function of the senses; perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses. |
| oversensitive | excessively or unduly sensitive. |
| technique | the manner and ability with which an artist, writer, dancer, athlete, or the like employs the technical skills of a particular art or field of endeavor. |
| amnesia | loss of a large block of interrelated memories; complete or partial loss of memory caused by brain injury, shock, etc. |
| misled | to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray. |
| tangible | capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial. |
| refute | to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge. |
| invariably | not variable; not changing or capable of being changed; static or constant. |
| regression | the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion. |
| verified | confirmed as to accuracy or truth by acceptable evidence, action, etc. |
| obscure | (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: |
| deterioration | the act or process of deteriorating |
| hypothesis | a proposition assumed as a premise in an argument |
| introspective | to look into or examine (one's own mind, feelings, etc.). |