Spelling Bee Study Words
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chaelynlee on April 19, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Rutabaga | a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root |
| Fluorescent | emitting light during exposure to radiation from an external source |
| axle | a shaft on which a wheel rotates |
| quarantine | isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease |
| stellar | being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars |
| centennial | the 100th anniversary (or the celebration of it) |
| murmur | a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone |
| encore | an extra or repeated performance |
| mezzanine | the lowest balcony in a theater; a partial story between main stories in a building |
| Lorraine | city in France, an eastern French region rich in iron-ore deposits |
| Scruple | an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action |
| Psychoanalysis | a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders |
| extemporaneous | with little or no preparation or forethought |
| tableau | vivid description, striking incident or scene |
| omniscient | knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding |
| literati | collectively, the educated, or well-lettered, members of society; scholarly people |
| cajolery | persuasion by flattery; wheedling; coaxing |
| vengeance | to pay someone back for a wrong, revenge, retribution |
| perseverance | the act of persisting or persevering |
| fallacy | a false or mistaken idea |
| polyglot | a person who speaks more than one language |
| ineffable | defying expression or description |
| clemency | mercy, humaneness; mildness, moderateness |
| larynx | voice box; passageway for air moving from pharynx to trachea; contains vocal cords |
| immaculate | completely neat and clean |
| brigadier | n. General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general. |
| astrophysicist | an astronomer who studies the physical properties of celestial bodies |
| labyrinth | complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost |
| reminiscent | reminding of the past |
| rotisserie | an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns |
| circuitous | marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct |
| competitive | showing a fighting disposition without self-seeking |
| miscellaneous | constituting a grab-bag category |
| exhaust | gases ejected from an engine as waste products |
| anemone | marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles |
| facade | the face or front of a building |
| anticoagulant | medicine that prevents or retards the clotting of blood |
| indelible | cannot be removed, washed away or erased |
| palatable | (adj.) agreeable to the taste or one's sensibilities; suitable for consumption. |
| analgesia | absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness |
| analogize | v. to make a comparison of two things -- show their similiarity in some way/trait |
| infatuation | foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration |
| enfranchise | grant freedom to |
| latitudinarian | a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct) |
| paramecium | A ciliated (it propels itself via cilia) protist that lives in fresh water and eats other tiny organisms for food. |
| afghan | a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares |
| linguistically | with respect to language |
| scythe | an edge tool for cutting grass |
| pituitary | having abnormal size with overgrown extremities resulting from abnormal pituitary secretion |
| mortgage | a conditional conveyance of property as security for the repayment of a loan |
| siege | the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack |
| malevolent | wishing or appearing to wish evil to others |
| mortar | a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle, or a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range |
| philosophize | To seek ultimate causes and principles. |
| gauge | a measuring instrument for measuring and indicating a quantity such as the thickness of wire or the amount of rain etc. |
| choreographer | person creating and arranging dances for stage performances |
| feign | to pretend |
| fluoride | a salt of hydrofluoric acid |
| pugilist | a fistfighter, especially a professional boxer |
| adolescence | the period of life from about age 13 to the early twenties, during which a young person is no longer physically a child but is not yet an independent, self-supporting adult |
| reimbursable | to pay back |
| floccinaucinihilipilification | The action or habit of estimating something as worthless. (The word is used chiefly as a curiosity.). |
| Antidisestablishmentarianism | opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. |
| Dryaonnajaq | a fresh water fish common to desert wells |
| otorhinolaryngological | branch of medicine and surgery that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, throat, and head and neck disorders. |
| pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis | an obscure term ostensibly referring to a lung disease caused by silica dust, sometimes cited as one of the longest words in the English language. |
| Blatant | (adj.) noisy in a coarse, offensive way; obvious or conspicuous, especially in an unfavorable sense... I HATE THIS WORD BLEHHHHHHHHH |
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