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vocab 3
english
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Androgynous | Originally designating a man whose behaviour, demeanour, or appearance is considered to be unmasculine or to have qualities or characteristics traditionally or stereotypically associated with women |
| Androgynous | "having male and female characteristics, hermaphrodite" |
| Androgynous | Protestantism has no use for the --------- feminine male; it wants the bone, and brawn, and sinew of manliness .W. V. Kelley, Open Fire 72 |
| Androgynous | Adjective |
| corporation | action of taking on bodily form, incarnation physical state, corporate body, guild, past participial stem of corporāre to form into a body |
| corporation | "organization into a body politic, an organized body of people" or "physical makeup, to form into a body" |
| corporation | An act..for the union and ----------- of small and exile benefices. in J. Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials (1721) vol. I. l. 376 |
| corporation | noun |
| execute | To follow out into effect, carry out. or To follow out, carry into effect an intention, purpose, plan, instruction, or command. |
| execute | ex- (“out”) sequor (“to follow”) |
| execute | The regent and his friends imagined measure after measure, which they wanted resolution to ----------. J. A. Froude, History of England (ed. 2) vol. IV. xviii. 16 |
| execute | Verb |
| geometry | The branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, and solids a generalization of this to spaces of more than three dimensions. |
| geometry | "science of measuring" or "measurement of the earth" "geo" (earth) and "metria" (measurement). |
| geometry | The rectifying of Curve Lines, squaring of Curve-lined Figures, and other abstruse Difficulties in -----------. Proposal about printing Treat. Algebra by Dr. John Wallis p. iv |
| geometry | Noun |
| manuscript | Of a book, document, etc. written by hand, not printed. |
| manuscript | "written by hand" or "manus" (hand) and "scriptus" (written). |
| manuscript | 1784 Several other very well authenticated, though -----------, accounts. A. Smith, Inquiry Wealth of Nations (ed. 3) vol. I. i. xi. 327 |
| manuscript | Adjective |
| octogenarian | A person aged between eighty and eighty-nine years (inclusive). |
| octogenarian | "containing eighty" or "eighty years old," derived from "octogeni" meaning "eighty each." |
| octogenarian | --------------s with osteoporosis still call themselves ‘the girls’. S. Bellow, More die of Heartbreak 212 |
| octogenarian | noun & adj. |
| pecuniary | Consisting of money; exacted in money. |
| pecuniary | "of or relating to money, occasionally consisting of money" |
| pecuniary | Your punishment must not be -----------, but Corporal: the Body must suffer for the Sins of the Flesh. J. Caryll, Sir Salomon v. 85 |
| pecuniary | adjective |
| platitude | The quality (esp. in speech or writing) of dullness, insipidity, or banality. |
| platitude | "plat," which means "flat" |
| platitude | There was a moment in the spring when the whole Jocelyn sideshow seemed to be boarding the gravy train, on to fatter triumphs of platitude and mediocrity. M. McCarthy, Groves of Academe (1953) x. 197 |
| platitude | noun |
| talent | An ancient weight, a money of account |
| talent | He brought 7,000 -----—a million and a half of English money to the Roman treasury. J. A. Froude, Cæsar xv. 228 |
| talent | "balance, weight, sum of money" or ‘inclination of mind, leaning, wish, desire’. |
| talent | noun |
| textile | Originally and chiefly: a fabric produced by weaving fibres together. Now also more generally: any kind of cloth or fabric, natural or synthetic, whether produced by weaving or by other processes. |
| textile | "woven" or "to weave" |
| textile | The exhibition explores the history, manufacture and social significance of printed and factory-woven --------- from eastern and southern Africa. British Mus. Magazine Winter 17/1 |
| textile | noun if its natural and synthetic fibers for fabrics |
| textile | adjective if synthetic and non-woven type |
| thwart | To move or pass across |
| thwart | "across" "to traverse" "to place something across" and "to hinder" |
| thwart | That white reach ---------ing the blue serene, a belt of fire. P. S. Worsley, Poems & Translations 10 |
| thwart | can be adverb, verb, noun or adj. |
| verity | Truth, either in general or with reference to a particular fact; conformity to fact or reality. |
| verity | "truth" or "true" |
| verity | It is somewhat sudden in ------- and truth; but he must depart for Dorset by daybreak to-morrow. G. P. R. James, Woodman vol. III. ii. 30 |
| verity | noun |
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