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Ferguson AP English
Ferguson AP 11 English List 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| atrophy | (v) to waste away or fail to grow |
| beget | (v) produce offspring; cause |
| cadaverous | (adj) haggard; ghastly pale |
| congenital | (adj) existing at one's birth from heredity or prenatal conditions |
| decrepit | (adj) broken down or worn out by old age |
| defunct | (adj) dead; no longer existing |
| demise | (n) death |
| diagnosis | (n) an explanation of the nature of a disease |
| dirge | (n) any slow, solemn, and mournful piece of music, esp. something suitable for a funeral |
| emaciated | (adj) abnormally thin; haggard |
| emollient | (n) a softener |
| engender | (v) to bring into being; to cause |
| epitaph | (n) an inscription, as on a tombstone in memory of a dead person |
| fecund | (adj) fruitful; fertile; productive |
| gaunt | (adj) thin; hollow-eyed and haggard, as from great hunger or age |
| grimace | 1. (n) an ugly facial expression of pain, disgust, etc 2. (v) to make such an expression |
| haggard | (adj) gaunt; looking worn or wasted, as from grief or illness |
| interment | (n) burial |
| knell | 1. (n) the ringing of a bell slowly, as for a funeral or death 2. an omen or sign of failure or termination |
| lethal | (adj) fatal; deadly |
| longevity | (n) long life |
| morbid | (adj) unwholesome; unhealthy |
| moribund | (adj) dying |
| myopic | (adj) nearsighted; sometimes used figuratively |
| obese | (adj) extremely fat; corpulent |
| pallid | (adj) pale; wan |
| panacea | (n) a supposed remedy for all ills or difficulties |
| parricide | 1. (n) the murder or a parent 2. the murderer |
| patriarch | (n) male head of a tribe or family |
| posthumous | (adj) occuring after one's death |
| proboscis | (n) a long, flexible snout, like an elephant's trunk or, humorously, a human nose, esp. a prominent one |
| progeny | (n) children; descendents; offspring |
| prognosis | (n) a fore-casting, esp. in medicine of the probable course of a disease |
| prolific | (adj) highly productive, as of offspring or mental products |
| putrid | (adj) rotten and foulsmelling |
| recrudescence | (n) a fresh outbreak |
| recumbent | (adj) lying down; resting |
| rotund | (adj) rounded; plump |
| rubicund | (adj) reddish; ruddy; rosy; healthy |
| sanguinary | (adj) accompanied by much bloodshed; bloodshed; bloodsstained; bloodthirsty |
| scion | (n) a descendant or heir |
| senile | (adj) showing signs of old age; weak in mind and body |
| somatic | (adj) of the body; physical |
| soporific | (adj) 1. causing sleep 2. sleepy 3. (n) something that causes sleep |
| superannuated | (adj) too old for further work |
| supine | (adj) lying on one's back |
| therapeutic | (adj) serving to cure or heal |
| toxic | (adj) poisonous |
| turgid | (adj) swollen; bloated, in referring to writing, bomobastic; pompous; grandiloquent |
| wan | (adj) pale; feelbe; sickly |
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