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BHS 4B Voc 11-12
Units 11&12 Vocabulary for English 4B
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aberration | a departure from the usual course |
| Adjudge | to decide by law; to pass sentence |
| Candor | frankness; openness |
| Corroborate | to confirm; to support or strengthen an idea or statement |
| Dearth | a scarcity; too small a supply of something |
| Diurnal | daily; occurring during the daytime |
| Herculean | extremely demanding or difficult |
| Ludicrous | laughable; amusingly absurd |
| Retrospect | a survey of things that happened in the past |
| Salient | standing out; easily seen or noticed |
| Artifice | a clever or artful device; a skill; a trick; trickery |
| Augury | the practice of foretelling the future from signs; an omen |
| Captivate | to catch the attention of; to charm |
| Chicanery | the use of clever talk or trickery to deceive or evade |
| Configuration | the composition of parts or elements of something; a shape |
| Deduce | to infer by reasoning; to conclude from known facts |
| Extant | still in existence; not extract or destroyed |
| Scrupulous | exact and careful |
| Proponent | a person who supports a cause or idea; an advocate |
| Refute | to disprove; to argue against |
| derma | skin |
| sanguis | blood |
| manus | hand/s |
| flexi | bend, curve, turn |
| pedis | foot,feet |
| station/stato/stacy | standing, to stay, to make firm, to place |
| miso | hate |
| placo | to please; to satisfy; peace; calm |
| auto | self |
| ego | I |
| homo/hom/hum | man |
| genos | race; kind; decend |
| mori | to die |
| nat/nasc | born; birth |
| amo/amor | love; liking |
| philos | loving |