Brissman 1st year 3 & 5 Review [Scaffold-stripped]
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 transient | one who or that which is only of temporary existence; in constant movement |
| resonant | a rich vibrating sound |
| antipathy | a strong dislike |
| contradict | to give opposing words; to give an idea only later to give an opposing idea |
| malaria | potentially deadly disease most often transmitted by tropical mosquitoes |
| omniscient | all-knowing (like a god) |
| omnipotent | all-powerful (like a god) |
| omnibus | containing or including many different items ("put it all on the bus and let's go!") |
| console | to help alleviate the grief, sense or loss, or pain of another |
| segregate | to separate groups of people |
| circumspect | cautious, such that one looks around carefully |
| artisan | a worker who practices a trade or handicraft |
| artifice | trickery or deception; an artful strategum; to present a false image |
| abrogate | to ask that something be removed or taken away; to annul |
| disavow | to deny responsibility for |
| retrogress | stepping backwards (the opposite of progress); growing worse in performance |
| retrograde | stepping backwards (e.g., retrograde fashion looks to the past for fashion inspiration and styles) |
| dystrophy | a condition produced by faulty or poor nutrition; a wasting away |
| malice | the desire to cause pain, injury or harm to another |
| malady | an illness |
| commiserate | at least two people feeling sad together, sharing misery |
| calligraphy | beautiful writing |
| predisposition | susceptibility; tendency beforehand |
| incredulous | not believing what is seen or heard |
| credulous | believing what is seen or heard |
| infrastructure | the underlying foundation or basic framework (as of a system or organization) |
| paradox | an opinion that seems to be true but is actually false, and vice versa |
| intermediary | one who finds an agreement between two groups |
| diameter | the measurement across an object, passing through the center |
| extraneous | something unneeded; excess materials |
| ingenuous | innocent or naïve; in a birth-like state |
| ingenius | highly original; creatively brilliant; in a state where the mind gives birth to original thoughts or ideas |
| heterogeneous | a grouping containing people of different backgrounds and origins |
| homogeneous | a grouping containing people of similar backgrounds and origins |
| prenatal | before birth |
| bibliophile | one who loves reading books |
| psychosomatic | when the mind imagines that something is wrong with the body (but in truth nothing is physically wrong) |
| melancholy | sadness and/or depression (we associate the color black with extreme sadness or despair) |
| rupture | a breaking apart or tearing |
| conspire | to join a common agreement, often in secret |
| pedicure | care for the feet, toes, and nails |
| curator | one who has the care and superintendence of something |
| inference | drawing a conclusion from facts or premises (one "carries" an idea away from a series of observations) |
| deference | yielding to another's argument or wishes ("I'll put down my idea and go with yours.") |
| eccentric | odd or abnormal; away from what is consider normal, which is considered "in the center" |
| egocentric | self-centered; to think the world revolves around you |
| mutable | changeable |
| immutable | not able to be changed |
| exorbitant | out of this world--or far from what all reason would suggest is right |
| uncivilized | not civilized; behaving in a rude, unsophisticated manner |
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