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90 Random Words
90 random English Vocabulary Words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ablutions | a cleansing with water or other liquid, esp. as a religious ritual. |
| Protrude | to project |
| Disposition | final settlement of a matter. |
| Confederate | united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy. |
| Deliberation | careful consideration before decision. |
| Alliteration | the commencement of two or more stressed syllables. |
| Rhyme | similar sound of some part. |
| Assonance | resemblance of sounds. |
| Constance | correspondence of sounds. |
| Shenanigan | mischief. |
| Phobia | a persistent irrational fear |
| Abash | to destroy the self confidence. |
| Abdicate | to renounce or relinquish a trhone, right, or power. |
| Animus | strong dislike or enmity;hostile attitude. |
| Benevolent | characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings. |
| Bereave | to deprive and make desolate |
| Harbinger | a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another |
| Lucid | easily understood |
| Ludicrous | causing laughter because of absurdity |
| Renegade | a person who deserts a party or cause for another |
| Resentment | the feeling of displeasure |
| Collusion | a secret agreement |
| Comradious | spacious and convenient |
| Complacement | pleased with one selves |
| Zenith | the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a position |
| Writhe | to twist the body about |
| Waive | to refrain from claiming on |
| Tenuous | long and thin;slender |
| Slander | to utter against |
| Libel | defamation by written or printed words, pictures, or in any form other than by spoken words or gestures; law. |
| Malicious | vicious |
| Acropolis | the citaded or high portified area od an ancient greek city |
| Polder | a tract of low land |
| Site | physisical characteristic |
| Acquisition | the reall act of acquiring gaining something |
| Emphasizes | lay stress upon |
| Antebellum | before war |
| Commune | to talk |
| Aggregate | the total |
| Arithmetic | the most elementary branch of mathematics |
| Screed | a long discourse or essay |
| Vascular | vessels that covey fluids |
| Credulous | willing to believe easily |
| Facilitate | to make easier |
| Murky | dark, gloomy. |
| Crepuscular | resembling twilight |
| Aphotic | light-less, dark |
| Fastidious | excessively particular |
| Adumbral | showy;shady |
| Nebulous | hazy, vague, indistinct or confused |
| Dun | to make repeated and insistent demands upon. |
| Subfuscous | slightly dark, dusky, or somber |
| Pitchy | full of or abounding in pitch |
| Stygian | dark or gloomy |
| Opaque | bit transmitting radiation |
| Gloaming | twilight; dusk |
| Agricultural Revolution | The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering. |
| Census | A complete enumeration of a population. |
| Demographic Transition | The process of change in a society's population from a condition of high crude birth and death rates and low rate of natural increase to a condition of low crude birth and death rates, low rate of natural increase, and a higher total population. |
| Ecumene | The portion of Earth's surface occupied by permanent human settlement. |
| Industrial Revolution | A series of improvements in industrial technology that transformed the process of manufacturing gods. |
| Medical Revolution | Medical Technology invented in Europe and North America is diffused to the poorer countries of Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Improved medical practices have eliminated many of the traditional deaths |
| Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population. |
| TFR | Total Fertility rate - The average number of children a woman will have throughout her childbearing years |
| Doubling Time | The number of years needed to double a population, assuming a constant rate of natural increase |
| CBR | Crude Birth Rate - The total Number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. |
| Demography | the scientific study of population characteristics |
| Epidemiological Transition | Distinctive causes of death in each stage of the demographic transition. |
| IMR | Infant Mortality Rate - The total number of deaths in a year among infants under 1 year old for every 1,000 live births. |
| NIR | Natural Increase Rate - The percentage growth of a population in a year, computed as the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate. |
| Population Pyramid | A bar graph representing the distribution of population by age and sex. |
| ZPG | Zero Population Growth - A decline of the total fertility rate to the point where the natural increase rate equals zero. |
| CDR | Crude Death Rate - The Total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society. |
| Dependency Ratio | The number of people under the age of 15 and over age 64, compared to the number of people active in the labor force. |
| Epidemiology | Branch of medical science concerned with the incidence, distribution, and powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region. |
| Life Expectancy | The average number of years an individual can be expected to live, given current social, economic, and medical conditions. Life expectancy at birth is the average number of years a newborn infant can expect to live |
| Overpopulation | The number of people in an area exceeds the capacity of the environment to support life at a decent standard of living. |
| Sex Ratio | Number of males per 100 females in a population |
| Possibilism | The theory that the physical environment may set limits on human actions, but people have the ability to adjust to the physical environment and choose a course of action from many alternatives. |
| Physiological Density | The number of people per unit per unit of area of arable land, which is land suitable for agriculture. |
| Distance Decay | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. |
| Concentration | The spread of something over a given area. |
| Diffusion | The process if spread if a feature or trend from one place to another over time. |
| Expansion Diffusion | The spread of a feature or trend among people from one area to another in a snowballing process. |
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