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BIG VOCAB TEST
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| disseminate | to scatter or spread; sow seed |
| elevate | to lift up |
| grave | weighty; serious |
| gravity | heaviness or weight |
| metabolism | chemical change within the body |
| metaphrase | a word for word translation |
| potent | powerful |
| potential | having possibility, or power |
| relevant | to shine light on; importance |
| seminal | having possibilities of future development |
| inseminate | to sow, implant seed into |
| alleviate | to make easier to bear; lessen |
| aggravate | to make worse or more severe; intensify |
| gravitation | the force of attraction between two masses |
| metamorphic | characterized by change of form |
| metastasize | to spread dangerously |
| potentate | one who possesses great power; ruler |
| impotence | lacking power or ability |
| levity | lightness of mind, character or behavior |
| seminiferous | bearing or producing seed |
| atheist | one who is without a god |
| benign | not malignant |
| fallacy | a false idea |
| falsify | to misrepresent |
| figurative | not literal |
| hierarchy | any system of persons or things ranked one above another |
| monarchy | government ruled by one |
| ponder | to weigh carefully in the mind |
| ponderous | of great weight |
| theology | study of God and relations to the universe |
| monotheism | worship of one god |
| ignoramus | one who does not know things |
| fallible | capable of being wrong or deceived |
| falsetto | an artifically high pitched voice |
| ignoble | not honorable |
| anarchy | without government |
| partriarchy | society governed by a father or eldest male |
| preponderance | the quality of being greater in weight |
| despondent | felling the weight of hopelessness |
| pantheon | all the gods of a particular religion |
| concur | agree |
| consanguinity | common ancestor |
| curious | inqquisitive |
| mundane | of or pertaining to this world; ordinary |
| mundo | world |
| optimisum | doctrine of the existing world is best |
| rationalism | doctrine of reason |
| revere | to hold with true regard; awe |
| sanguinary | eager for bloodshed |
| verily | truly |