Vocab #81-90
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hannahjames on March 20, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
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soliloquies | a dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts when alone or unaware of the presence of another character |
subjugate | to bring under control; conquer |
suffragist | an advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women |
supercilious | feeling or showing haughty disdain |
tautology | needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy |
taxonomy | the classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates natural relationships |
tectonic | of or relating to the forces involving in forming the geological features, such as mountains, continents, and oceans, of the earth's lithosphere |
tempestuous | of, or relating to, or resembling a tempest |
thermodynamics | the branch of physics that deals with the relationships and conversions between heat and other forms of energy |
totalitarian | of, relating to, or imposing a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life, the individual is subordinated to the state, and opposing political and cultural expression is suppressed |
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