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mags - vocab #1
2009 - 2010 Semester 2 English Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anarchist | n. Lawless person; somebody who tries to overthrow a government or behaves in a lawless way |
| Apprenticeship | n. Somebody being trained by a skilled professional; trainee. |
| Arsonist | n. Someone that had done a crime of burning property |
| Asserted | v. State something: to state something as being true |
| Asylum | n. Protection and immunity from extradition |
| Augury | n. An indication of what will happen in the future |
| Auspicious | adj. Promising well for future |
| Blitzkrieg | n. Swift military offensive |
| Blunt | adj. Not sharp |
| Calamity | n. A disastrous situation or event |
| Capillary | n. Thin/small blood vessel |
| Centrifuge | n. A device that rotates rapidly and uses centrifugal force to separate substances of different densities |
| Cinch | n. Something easily done. |
| Chorister | n. Singer in chorus or choir |
| Compress | v. To make something smaller by applying pressure or a similar process, or become smaller in this way |
| Contemptible | adj. Deserving to be treated with contempt/hatred |
| Contentious | adj. Creating disagreement |
| Convalescence | n. Recuperating patient; an amount of time spent to recover |
| Crest | n. Top of curve or slope; top of achievement |
| Deference | n. Polite respect, especially putting another person's interest first |
| Defile | v. To corrupt or ruin something |
| Dentifrice | n. A paste or similar compound for cleaning teeth; toothpaste |
| Devour | v. eat something quickly and hungrily |
| Disperse | v. To distribute something over a wide area; or to become widespread |
| Distress | n. Mental suffering |
| Dodder | v. To shake or tremble |
| Drench | v. To make somebody or something completely wet or soaked |
| Eddy | n. A small whirl; a current that goes in a circular motion |
| Effulgence | n. Brightness |
| Enfeeble | v. Weaken; to reduce the strength of somebody or something to the point of weakness |
| Flourish | v. To sustain continuous steady strong growth |
| Forlorn | adj. Lonely and miserable |
| Foyer | n. Entrance hall: the entrance hall or vestibule in a private house; lobby |
| Furies | n. Greek avenging goddesses who mercilessly punished the wrongdoings, especially committed within families |
| Garment | n. A piece of clothing |
| Gimmick | n. A piece of trickery or manipulation intended to achieve a result dishonestly |
| Hymn | n. Religious song |
| Hypnotize | v. To put somebody into a state of trance |
| Ignite | v. To set fire to something, or catch fire |
| Illumination | n. The provision of light to make something visible or bright, or the fact of being lit up |
| Incinerator | n. A furnace for destroying things by burning them, especially one used to burn waste |
| Insidious | adj. Slowly and subtly harmful or destructive |
| Insidious | adj. Gradual and harmful; slowly and subtly harmful or destructive |
| Insolence | n. Disrespectful; lack of respect in speech or behavior |
| Inveigle | v. To entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements |
| Kerosene | n. A colorless flammable oil distilled from petroleum |
| Linguist | n. A speaker or adept learner of several languages |
| Lithe | adj. Flexible and supple; and graceful |
| Luxuriously | adj. Comfortably, with high quality, expensive |
| Malicious | adj. Motivated by or resulting from a desire to cause harm or pain to another |
| Manses | n. The house and land occupied by a minister of parson; a house used by employees |
| Meddle | v. To interfere in somebody else's concern |
| Metropolis | n. Center of activity; large city |
| Mourn | v. Express sadness at somebody's death; to feel and show sadness |
| Obligate | v. To compel to somebody to do something as a legal or moral duty |
| Oblivion | n. A state of being completely forgotten or a state of complete forgetfulness or unawareness |
| Odious | adj. Inspiring hatred, contempt, or disgust |
| Pantomime | n. Somebody who acts without speaking, using gesture and expression |
| Parodos | n. First ode, or choral song, in a Greek tragedy, chanted by the chorus as it enters the area in front of the stage |
| Pedant | n. Somebody who unduly emphasizes unimportant details and rules |
| Piety | n. An action inspired by devout religious principles |
| Pious | adj. Religious |
| Plummet | v. To drop steeply and suddenly downward |
| Procession | n. Group of people moving forward: a group of people or vehicles moving forward in a line as part of a celebration, demonstration, or commemoration |
| Proclivity | n. A natural tendency to behave in a particular way |
| Prodigious | adj. Wonderful or marvelous; abnormal |
| Quarry | n. Object of pursuit |
| Ramshackle | adj. Badly built or rundown; broken down |
| Rationalize | v. Offer reasonable explanation for something |
| Recoils | v. To move back suddenly and violently |
| Repulse | v. To force back or to cause disgust or revulsion |
| Reverend | adj. Deserving to be shown respect |
| Ricocheted | v. To hit a surface and bounce, traveling away in a different direction |
| Rouse | v. To shake somebody out of apathy; to stir somebody into action |
| Salamander | n. Small animal resembling lizard; a mythical reptile that lives in fire |
| Salient | adj. Noticeable or striking |
| Sated | v. To glut or surplus somebody; to provide somebody with more than enough |
| Sedate | v. To calm somebody; unhurried |
| Seigneurs | n. A man of rank; feudal lord |
| Senile | adj. Forgetful, confused,or otherwise mentally less acute in later life |
| Sententiously | adv. Full of cliche or over expressing |
| Sieve | n. An utensil consisting of a round frame surrounding a mesh and used to separate solid from liquids or large particles from small particles, or to puree foods |
| Somberly | adv. Dark and gloomy |
| Suffuse | v. To spread over or through something |
| Sultry | adj. Hot and damp |
| Swagger | v. To brag; to talk boastfully about personal accomplishments; to walk in an arrogant manner |
| Tacit | adj. Implied but not expressed |
| Thimble | n. A small metal sleeve |
| Trample | v. Treat somebody arrogantly |
| Transcends | v. To go beyond something in quality or achievement; surpass something |
| Transgress | v. To be disrespectful or to break the law |
| Trifle | n. Something that had little or no importance, significance, or value |
| Unhinged | v. To remove something from its hinges; to dislocate something |
| Untrammeled | adj. Not restricted or restrained |
| Vault | n. Strengthened room for valuables |
| Ventilator | n. Device for circulating fresh air in an enclosed space |
| Vigil | n. A period spent in doing something through the night, e.g., watching, guarding, or praying; religious services at night |
| Waver | v. To go back and forth between possibilities, or be indecisive in making a choice |
| Wrath | n. Great anger: strong anger, often with a desire for revenge. |
| Yield | v. Agree on somebody's demand; to produce something naturally or as a result of cultivation |
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