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23-24 Vocabulary PT2
23-24 UIL Vocabulary (chatoyant-erysipelas)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| chatoyant | Having a changeable luster. |
| chiffonier | A narrow high chest of drawers or bureau, often with a mirror attached. |
| Chiricahua | A member of a formerly nomadic Apache tribe inhabiting southern New Mexico, southeast Arizona, and northern Mexico, with present-day populations in Oklahoma and New Mexico. |
| chthonic | Of or relating to the underworld. (Greek Mythology) |
| circadian | Relating to or exhibiting approximately 24-hour periodicity. |
| clerisy | Educated people considered as a group; the literati. |
| collocation | An arrangement or juxtaposition of words or other elements, especially those that commonly co-occur, as rancid butter, bosom buddy, or dead serious. |
| compleat | 1. Of or characterized by a highly developed or wide-ranging skill or proficiency. 2. Being an outstanding example of a kind; quintessential. |
| concavity | The state of being curved like the inner surface of a sphere. |
| concretize | To make real or specific. |
| consortium | 1. An association or society. 2. The typical collection of benefits arising from marriage, including companionship, love, assistance, and sexual relations, which may have value recognized under law. |
| continuum | 1. A continuous extent, succession, or whole, no part of which can be distinguished from neighboring parts except by arbitrary division. 2. The set of all real numbers. (Mathematics) |
| contraption | A mechanical device; a gadget. |
| Coventry | A city of central England east-southeast of Birmingham. Famous as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century, Coventry was severely damaged in air raids during World War II (November 1940). |
| cravenly | Characterized by abject fear; cowardly. |
| cretinism | A congenital condition caused by a deficiency of thyroid hormone during prenatal development and characterized by small stature, intellectual disability, dystrophy of the bones, and a low basal metabolism. |
| cuesta | A ridge with a gentle slope on one side and a cliff on the other. |
| cyclotron | An early particle accelerator in which charged subatomic particles are accelerated spirally outward in a plane perpendicular to a fixed magnetic field by an alternating electric field. |
| cytolysis | The dissolution or destruction of a cell. |
| Dakar | The capital and largest city of Senegal, in the western part of the country on the Atlantic Ocean. It grew around a French fort built in 1857 and was the capital of French West Africa from 1902 to 1959. |
| dariole | 1. A small cooking mold. 2. A dish, as of vegetables, fish, custard, or pastry, that is cooked and served in a small mold. |
| decorticate | To remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from; peel. |
| decumbent | 1. Lying down; reclining. 2. Botany Lying or growing on the ground but with erect or rising tips: decumbent stems. |
| defeasance | A rendering void; an annulment |
| definiens | The word or words serving to define another word or expression, as in a dictionary entry. |
| dentifrice | A substance, such as a paste or powder, for cleaning the teeth. |
| derailleur | A device for shifting gears on a bicycle by moving the chain between sprocket wheels of different sizes. |
| despot | A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant. |
| diagnostician | A person who diagnoses, especially a physician specializing in medical diagnostics. |
| dinghy | A small open boat carried or towed as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft by a larger boat. |
| discombobulate | To throw into a state of confusion. |
| disinclination | A lack of inclination; a mild aversion or reluctance. |
| disseminate | To scatter widely, as in sowing seed. |
| doggerel | Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature. |
| draconian | Exceedingly harsh; very severe. |
| dulcet | Having a soothing, agreeable quality. |
| duplicitous | Given to or marked by deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech. |
| dyspepsia | Disturbed digestion; indigestion. |
| eccentricity | Deviation from the normal, expected, or established. |
| ecumenism | A movement promoting worldwide unity among religions through greater cooperation and improved understanding. |
| effusion | The seeping of serous, purulent, or bloody fluid into a body cavity or tissue. |
| ekistics | The science of human settlements, including city or community planning and design. |
| eldritch | Strange or unearthly; eerie. |
| elutriate | To purify, separate, or remove by washing, decanting, and settling. |
| encomiast | A person who delivers or writes an encomium; a eulogist. |
| ensconce | To place or conceal in a secure place. |
| epicurism | The beliefs, tastes, or lifestyle of an epicure. |
| equitation | The art and practice of riding a horse. |
| erudition | Deep, extensive learning. |
| erysipelas | An acute bacterial infection of the skin and superficial lymphatic vessels, caused by streptococci and marked by localized inflammation and fever. Also called Saint Anthony's fire. |
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