UIL Spelling 2011-2012 301-450
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 divination | the practice of attempting to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge by occult or supernatural means. |
| divvied | divided; distributed |
| Dobro (trademark) | a brand of acoustic guitar commonly used in country music, usually played on the lap and having a raised bridge and a metal resonator cone that produces a tremulous, moaning sound. |
| doggerel | comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure. |
| dolce vita | sweet life; the good life perceived as one of physical pleasure and self-indulgence (usually preceded by la ). |
| Dominican Republic | a republic in the West Indies, occupying the E part of the island of Hispaniola. 8,228,151; 19,129 sq. mi. (49,545 sq. km). Capital: Santo Domingo. |
| donnish | resembling or characteristic of a university don; bookish; pedantic. |
| Dostoyevsky, Dostoevski | 1821-81, Russian novelist. |
| doublespeak | evasive, ambiguous language that is intended to deceive or confuse. |
| dragée | a sugarcoated nut or candy. |
| drogue | a bucket or canvas bag used as a sea anchor. |
| ductility | capable of being hammered out thin, as certain metals; malleable. |
| dulcify | to make more agreeable; mollify; appease. to sweeten. |
| dura mater | the tough, fibrous membrane forming the outermost of the three coverings of the brain and spinal cord. |
| duteous | dutiful; obedient. |
| dyad | a group of two; couple; pair. |
| dysteleology | a doctrine denying the existence of a final cause or purpose. |
| E. coli | Escherichia coli. |
| earth art | the artistic genre consisting of earthworks. |
| ebonize | to stain or finish black in imitation of ebony. |
| ecclesiasticism | devotion, especially excessive devotion, to the principles or interests of the church. |
| éclat | brilliance of success, reputation, etc. |
| economize | to practice economy; avoid waste or extravagance. |
| Ecuador | a republic in NW South America. 11,690,535; 109,483 sq. mi. (283,561 sq. km). Capital: Quito. |
| editor in chief | the policy-making executive or principal editor of a publishing house, publication, etc. |
| effectual | producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate. |
| efficacious | capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc. |
| effluvium | a slight or invisible exhalation or vapor, especially one that is disagreeable or noxious. |
| effulgent | shining forth brilliantly; radiant. |
| eland | either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus, having long, spirally twisted horns: now rare. |
| electroshock | electroconvulsive therapy. |
| elegize | to lament in or as if in an elegy. |
| ellipsis | the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction |
| eluviation | the movement through the soil of materials brought into suspension or dissolved by the action of water. |
| embouchure | the mouth of a river. |
| embryectomy | removal of an embryo. |
| emetic | causing vomiting, as a medicinal substance |
| empennage | the rear part of an airplane or airship, usually comprising the stabilizer, elevator, vertical fin, and rudder. |
| empoison | to corrupt. |
| en brochette | a skewer, for use in cookery. |
| en rapport | in sympathy or accord; in agreement; congenial. |
| enarthrosis | ball-and-socket joint. |
| encaustic | painted with wax colors fixed with heat, or with any process in which colors are burned in. |
| encyclical | Roman Catholic Church: a letter addressed by the pope to all the bishops of the church. |
| ennead | a group of nine persons or things. |
| enokidake | a thin, long-stemmed and tiny-capped white mushroom, Flamma velutipes, native to the northern mountain ranges of Japan and prized as a food. |
| ensanguine | to stain or cover with or as with blood. |
| entablature | the entire construction of a classical temple or the like between the columns and the eaves, usually composed of an architrave, a frieze, and a cornice. |
| entelechy | a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality. |
| entrepreneurial | a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. |
| enzymes | any of various proteins, as pepsin, originating from living cells and capable of producing certain chemical changes in organic substances by catalytic action, as in digestion. |
| epicanthic fold | a fold of skin extending from the eyelid over the inner canthus of the eye, common among Mongoloid peoples. |
| epicycloid | a curve generated by the motion of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls externally, without slipping, on a fixed circle. |
| epidermis | the outer, nonvascular, nonsensitive layer of the skin, covering the true skin or corium. |
| epistemic | of or pertaining to knowledge or the conditions for acquiring it. |
| epistolary | contained in or carried on by letters:. |
| equiponderate | to equal or offset in weight, force, importance, etc.; counterbalance. |
| errantry | conduct or performance like that of a knight-errant. |
| errata | a list of errors and their corrections inserted, usually on a separate page or slip of paper, in a book or other publication; corrigenda. |
| erudition | knowledge acquired by study, research, etc.; learning; scholarship. |
| esprit de corps | a sense of unity and of common interests and responsibilities, as developed among a group of persons closely associated in a task, cause, enterprise, etc. |
| estimable | worthy of esteem; deserving respect or admiration. |
| esurient | hungry; greedy. |
| etesian | (of certain Mediterranean winds) occurring annually. |
| Ethiopian | of or pertaining to Ethiopia or to its inhabitants. |
| ethnomusicology | the study of folk and primitive music and of their relationship to the peoples and cultures to which they belong. |
| etymon | the linguistic form from which another form is historically derived. |
| euphoric | intensely happy or confident. |
| evanesce | to disappear gradually; vanish; fade away. |
| evangelical, Evangelical | pertaining to or in keeping with the gospel and its teachings. |
| evolutionary | pertaining to evolution or development. |
| exactitude | the quality of being exact; exactness; preciseness; accuracy. |
| excaudate | tailless; lacking a tail or taillike process. |
| excelsior | fine wood shavings, used for stuffing, packing, etc. |
| exclusivity | not admitting of something else; incompatible. |
| executrix | a woman named in a decedent's will to carry out the provisions of that will. |
| exemplum | an example or model. |
| exemptible | to free from an obligation or liability to which others are subject; release. |
| exorbitant | exceeding the bounds of custom, propriety, or reason, especially in amount or extent; highly excessive. |
| exoteric | suitable for or communicated to the general public. |
| expatiate | to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion. |
| explicate | to make plain or clear; explain; interpret. |
| exponentiation | the raising of a number to any given power. |
| expurgate | to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable. |
| exscind | to cut out or off. |
| extant | in existence; still existing; not destroyed or lost. |
| extirpate | to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate. |
| extraordinaire | extraordinary; uncommon; remarkable. |
| extravaganza | a musical or dramatic composition or production, as comic opera or musical comedy, marked by a loose structure, a frivolous theme, and elaborate costuming and staging. |
| eyes-only | (of a communication) secret or confidential and meant to be seen only by the person to whom it is directed. |
| façadism, facadism | the principle or practice of preserving the fronts of buildings that have elegant architectural designs; the construction of a modern building behind its old or original front. |
| fact-finding | a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict. |
| fair-market value | a selling price for an item or property at which a buyer and seller will agree to do business. |
| falafel, felafel | an appetizer or snack consisting of a small croquette made with fava-bean flour or ground chick peas, seasoned with toasted sesame seeds and salt, often served in pita bread. |
| Falstaffian | of, pertaining to, or having the qualities of Falstaff, especially his robust, bawdy humor, good-natured rascality, and brazen braggadocio. |
| fandango | a lively Spanish or Spanish-American dance in triple time, performed by a man and woman playing castanets. |
| fanfaronade | bragging; bravado; bluster. |
| fascicle | a section of a book or set of books being published in installments as separate pamphlets or volumes. |
| Fascisti | a member of the Fascist movement in Italy. |
| faun | one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat. |
| faveolate | honeycombed; alveolate; pitted. |
| febrifacient | producing fever. |
| feijoada | a dish of rice and black beans baked with various kinds of meat and sausage. |
| feme covert | a married woman. |
| Fenian | a member of an Irish revolutionary organization founded in New York in 1858, which worked for the establishment of an independent Irish republic. |
| fermata | the sustaining of a note, chord, or rest for a duration longer than the indicated time value, with the length of the extension at the performer's discretion. |
| Fertile Crescent | an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq. |
| fetal alcohol syndrome | a variable cluster of birth defects that may include facial abnormalities, growth deficiency, mental retardation, and other impairments, caused by the mother's consumption of alcohol during pregnancy. |
| fianchetto | the development of a bishop, in an opening move, by advancing one or two pawns so as to permit movement along the bishop's diagonal. |
| fiducial | accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison. |
| filet mignon (singular) | a small, tender round of steak cut from the thick end of a beef tenderloin. |
| filiform | threadlike; filamentous. |
| flagellate | to whip; scourge; flog; lash. |
| flagitious | shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times. |
| flavonoid | any of a group of organic compounds that occur as pigments in fruit and flowers |
| flèche | a steeple or spire, especially one in the Gothic style, emerging from the ridge of a roof. |
| fledgling, fledgeling | an inexperienced person. |
| flocculent | like a clump or tuft of wool. |
| floruit | he (or she) flourished: used to indicate the period during which a person flourished, especially when the exact birth and death dates are unknown. |
| fluorescence | the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. |
| fluviomarine | of or formed by the combined action of river and sea. |
| folderol | mere nonsense; foolish talk or ideas. |
| folio | a sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves, or four pages, of a book or manuscript. |
| fontanel, fontanelle | one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull. |
| foreshadow | to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure |
| formicivorous | ant-eating. |
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| glaciologist | ... |
| glaucous | ... |
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