Flashcards: Quarter 2 Vocabulary
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Harleyki on October 28, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Fallacy | a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning |
| Flourish | grow well; prosper; make sweeping gestures; wave; brandish; Ex. The trees flourished in the sun. N: showy movement or gesture; embellishment or ornamentation (esp. in handwriting) |
| Formidable | extremely impressive in strength or excellence |
| Gargoyle | an ornament consisting of a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal |
| Guerrilla | a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment |
| Guru | a Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher |
| Heritage | practices that are handed down from the past by tradition |
| Hieroglyphic | a writing system using picture symbols |
| Hologram | the intermediate photograph (or photographic record) that contains information for reproducing a three-dimensional image by holography |
| Hypocrisy | insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have |
| Impertinent | not pertinent to the matter under consideration |
| Inference | logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience |
| Introspection | the contemplation of your own thoughts and desires and conduct |
| Jaunty | having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air |
| Jovial | full of or showing high-spirited merriment |
| Kilometer | a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles) |
| Labyrinth | complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost |
| Laconic | brief and to the point |
| Lichen | plant composed of a fungus and alga, growing on rocks, tree trunks |
| Light-Year | light distance travels in one year (9.5 trillion km) |
| Maneuver | an action aimed at evading an opponent |
| Marsupial | mammals of which the females have a pouch (the marsupium) containing the teats where the young are fed and carried |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity |
| Mosaic | art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass |
| Immune | (usually followed by 'to') not affected by a given influence |
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