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L4Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Puerile (adj): | Childish; immature |
| Orthopedics (noun): | Branch of medicine treating disorders of skeletal system and tissues related to movement. |
| Pedagogue (noun): | A teacher. |
| Pedant (noun): | A person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding; a scholarly show-off. |
| Entity (noun): | Something that has a real or independent existence. |
| Nonentity (noun): | A person/thing of no importance. |
| Essence (noun): | The basic element; the identifying characteristic; a substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant/drug; a perfume. |
| Moribund (adj): | About to die or end. |
| Mortify (verb): | To shame; to discipline oneself by denial (fasting, etc.). |
| Postmortem (noun): | An examination to determine the cause of death; autopsy; an analysis of something that is over. |
| Euthanasia (noun): | The act of painlessly killing a suffering person/animal; mercy killing. |
| Innate (adj): | Possessed at birth. |
| Naive (adj): | Childlike; unsophisticated. |
| Nascent (adj): | Emerging; coming into existence. |
| renaissance (noun): | A rebirth; renewal; a revival of humanism in 14th-16th century Europe. |