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Vocab cards PT4
Vocab cards
Term | Definition | Sentence |
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Multitude | Noun, Large Number of things or people. | Theres a multitude of demands from the people |
Contraptions | Noun, Inventions or things made | Theres plenty of contraptions to choose from. |
Colossal | adj. Extreme, Large, or alot | There is a colossal amount of mail |
Ingenious | ADJ, clever, original, and inventive | The contraption is ingenious |
Viable | adj. Capable of working successfully; feasible | The invention is viable. |
Myopic | ADJ, nearsighted | The bird is myopic |
Forsight | Noun, The ability to predict or have the action to see what happens in the future | He has foresight to see what happens in the future |
Naiveté | N, The quality of being naive, innocent | he has the naiveté quality |
Prescient | ADJ, showing knowledge of events before they happen. | He has the prescient quality. |
Enable | V, to make possible | He enabled the light switch. |
Seminal | ADJ, being the first of something that is acknowledged later | He had a seminal occurrence. |
Dismay | N, Consternation and distress made by something unexpected. | He was left in dismay. |
Controversy | N, Disagreement, when prolonged, public, and heated | The was a controversy of the food at work. |
Outcry | N. An exclamation or shout | The public outcry of the bombing. |
Maneuver | A movement or series of moves that requires skill and care | They all did a daring maneuver. |
Components | N. a part or element of a larger whole | The main component of the contraption is missing. |
Instinctive | ADJ, relating to or prompted by instinct | An instinctive distaste for conflict. |
-gen- | Root, Latin, Birth, origin, creation | The new generation is doomed |
-vers- | Turned, Root, latin | The new version of the song isn't good. |
Fore- | Prefix, old English, Before or at the front | His forehead was massive |
in-, um-, im- | German, prefix, In- with months season, Im- opposite or into, Um- specific time | The day in the Umpire was important, but intresting. |