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Period 1 Euro Vocab
Units 1,2,3 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Paradigm shift | the change in one's thinking |
| Miasma | Bad air |
| Usury | Lending of money at a high rate (illegal) |
| Eradicate | To get rid of something |
| Subsistence Agricaulture | Making just enough food to support yourself |
| Anti-semitism | Dislike of jewish people |
| Pogrom | Attack on Jewish people |
| Clerical | Relating to the clergy of the Church |
| Lexicon | Vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge |
| Erudition/Erudite | Having or showing great knowledge or learning |
| Libertine | A person who behaves without moral principles especially in sexual matters |
| Eclectic | Deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources |
| Perfiidious | Untrustworthy |
| Dichotomy | A division or contrast between two things that are represented as being entirely different or opposite |
| Parsimonous | unwilling to spend money, use resources stingy or frugal |
| Papacy | Office of the Pope |
| Pacifism | Belief that any violence is bad |
| Pariah | Someone who is despised or rejected |
| Fickle | Undecided/easily swayed |
| Affable | Friendly, good natures, easy to talk to |
| Capricious | Subject to sudden mood swings |
| Posterity | For the future generations |
| Motif | Decorative design or pattern |
| Lecherous | Having or showing excessive or offensive social desire |
| Ignominious | Deserving shame |
| Theology | Study of religion |
| Gargantuan | Enourmous |
| Unrequit4ed | not returned |
| Utopian | Idealistic |
| Muse | Object of spiritation |
| Prodigious | Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size or degree |
| Hedonist | Pleasure seeker |
| Machinations | plot or scheme |
| Temporal | Relating to worldly as opposed to spiritual affairs, secular |
| Panacea | Cure-all for difficulty or disease |
| Paragon | Person or thing regarded as a perfect example of something |
| Insidious | Stealthy treacherous or deceitful |
| Renaissance | Period of time when people rebirthed culture, art, and politics |
| Balance of power | No single country should be allowed to become so powerful that it can dominate the others, maintained through military aliances |
| Oligarchy | Small group of people having control over a country |
| Diplomacy | Conducting negotiations or keeping peace using words and not force |
| Solace | Comfort or consolation in a time of distress |
| Regent | Person who is ruling a country because the monarch is a minor or incapacitated |
| Quid pro quo | Do a favor and expect something in return |
| Doctrine | Set of beliefs |
| Vacillate | Indecisive |
| Nepotism | Favoring someone because you know/are related to them |
| Profligacy | Extreme extravagance |
| Laconic | Using few words |
| Taciturn | Reserved, quiet |
| Apocryphal | A fact that is doubtful even though it is true |
| Dubious | Doubting |
| Efficacy | The ability to produce a desired result |
| Perfunctory | Action carried out with little effort |
| Credulous | Having or showing too great a readiness to believe things |
| Pecuniary | Relating to many |
| Misnomer | A wrong or inaccurate name |
| Demographic | Sub group of population linked by factors such as age, name, background etc. |
| Lasvicious | Feeling or revealing offensive sexual desire |
| Polemic | A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something |
| Lucrative | Something that produces a big profit |
| Indolence | Laziness |
| Ameliorate | Make better |
| Implement | To put into effect |
| Apogee | Highest point |
| Nadir | Lowest point |
| Arquebus | An early type of portable gun |
| Tumultuous | Making a loud or confused noise |
| Egregious | Outstandingly bad, shaking |
| Contemporaries | A person/thing existing at the same time |
| Posthumous | Happening after death |
| Dichotomy | Division of two things that are represented as being completely opposite |
| Cleavage | Sharp division |
| Laconic | Using few words |
| Morose | ill-tempered |
| Melancholy | Sadness with no obvious cause |
| Defenstrate | To throw someone or something out of a window |
| Jingoism | Extreme patriotism |
| bellicose | Willingness to fight |
| Malevolence | Wishing to do evil to others |
| Misogyny | Dislike or prejudice against women |
| Pyrrhic | A victory won at two great a cost to have been worthwhile |
| Quixotic | Exceedingly idealistic, unrealistic and impractical |
| Permeate | To penetrate |
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