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Schoen Unit 7 Words
English I Unit 7 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adapt | to make fit (as for a specific or new use or situation) often by modification |
| constitution | an established law or custom : ordinance |
| convalescence | the state of recovering health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness |
| exhaust | to tire extremely or completely (verb); the escape of used gas or vapor from an engine (noun) |
| expose | to deprive of shelter, protection, or care : subject to risk from a harmful action or condition; to leave in the open |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| immoderate | exceeding just, usual, or suitable bounds; too much of something |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| involve | to engage as a participant |
| mechanism | a piece of machinery; a process, technique, or system for achieving a result |
| moderate | avoiding extremes of behavior or expression : observing reasonable limits |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| organism | an individual constituted to carry on the activities of life by means of organs separate in function but mutually dependent : a living being |
| potent | having or wielding force, authority, or influence : powerful |
| psychological | directed toward the will or toward the mind specifically in its function or process |
| repetition | the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated; a motion or exercise (as a push-up) that is repeated and usually counted |
| response | an act of responding; something constituting a reply or a reaction |
| restorative | of or relating to restoration; especially : having power to restore |
| stress | constraining force or influence; a force exerted when one body or body part presses on, pulls on, pushes against, or tends to compress or twist another body or body part |
| volume | a series of printed sheets bound typically in book form; the degree of loudness or the intensity of a sound |