Term | Definition |
Appellation | To call ones name |
Animadversion | Hyper critical |
Munition | A defense, fortification |
Torch | To twist |
Promontory | A mountain that juts out |
Antepenultimate | 3rd last |
Defame | To belittle, speak ill of something |
Ocular | Pertaining to the eye |
Pastoral | Countrified |
Fugacious | Prone to flight |
Transfigure | To change the shape |
Ultramontane | Beyond the mountains |
Lucifugous | Avoidance of daylight |
Vermont | Green mountain |
Centrifugal | To flee the center |
AUC | Ab Urbe candita-from the founding of the city |
Loquacious | Talkative |
Mellifluous | Flowery, like honey |
Felicide | The killing of a cat |
Aviculture | To raise birds |
Tinge | To stain |
Lapidation | To stone to death |
Alumnus | A male graduate |
Alma Mater | Mother (school) |
Avis rara | A rare bird |
Alumna | Woman graduate |
Vestige | Remains, tracks |
Lorimer | A person who works with horses, tack |
Ritual | A way of doing things |
Victuals | Foods |
Desiccation | The act of dying |
Adherent | Sticking with something |
Guitar | Stringed instrument |
Collar | Shirt collar |
Nepotism | Favoring ones family over another |
Uxorious | Overly dutiful to ones wife |
Officious | Dutiful |
Irruption | A bursting inward |
Ex officio | From the office |
Arbor vitae | The tree of life |
Mirage | Something that appears to you |
Percussion | Something that beats, sticking |
Odious | Something else you hate |
Edict | Proclamation, saying |
Validity | Something strong, valid |
Arcuate | Bow-shaped, arched |
Remonstrance | The showing of something |
Uxoricide | To kill your wife |
Equinox | Equal night |
Officiant | Duty at a church, temple |
Irascible | Able to be angered, easily |
Torticollis | A bent neck, twisted neck |
Conative | Trying, attempt |
Docent | One who teaches in a museum |
Convex | Carried together with a bend |
Ardor | Passion, a burning for |
Moratorium | A pause, hiatus |
Repatriation | Back home at the homeland |
Nolo contendere | I do not wish to contend |
Pari passu | Walking with equal pace, steps |
Operose | Full of work, toilsome |
Trireme | 3 sets of oars |
Cupidity | Desire |
Permanence | Something that remains |
Extol | To lift up, on a pedestal |
Docile | Easy to teach |
Magnum opus | A great work |
Expatriate | Leaving, exiled from homeland |
Tergiversation | To turn your back on something |
Cursive | Words running together |
Manse | An estate that stays in the family |
Ardent | Something hot, passionate |
Expound | To explain something |