Boham Mid-Term Vocab
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Vocab for Mr. Boham's MidTerm
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| adjourn (v.) |  to stop proceedings temporarily; to close formally |
| adverse (adj.) | opposing or opposed; unfavorable |
| advocate (v., n.) | to speak in favor of; a person who pleads in the interest of a cause |
| aesthetic (adj.) | pertaining to a sense of beauty; artistic |
| affable (adj.) | easy to approach; courteous |
| affectation (n.) | a pretentious display of manners that are not genuine; mannerism adopted to impress others |
| affluent (adj.) | well supplied with material possession; wealthy |
| agenda (n.) | a list or program of things to be done |
| aggregate (n., v., adj.) | the total amount of sum of individual parts; to gather or merge into a single whole; total or collective |
| agile (adj.) | swift and light in action, movement, or thought |
| anomaly (n.) | deviation from the common rule; irregularity |
| apathy (n.) | a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest |
| appall (v.) | to fill with dismay, fear or intense horror |
| apprehend (v.) | to arrest or take into custody; to perceive or understand the meaning of; to look forward to with fear or anxiety |
| arbitrary (adj.) | unreasonable; based on one's own wishes or whims without regard for reason or fairness; spur of the moment |
| arbitrate (v.) | to act or give judgment; to settle |
| array (v., n.) | to line up or dress up; an imposing grouping or impressive display |
| articulate (v., adj,) | expressing yourself easily or characterized by clear expressive language |
| askew (adj., adv.) | out of line or position; turned to one side; disapprovingly, scornfully |
| assimilate (v.) | become similar to one's environment; adapt |
| avarice (n.) | extreme greed for material wealth |
| avid (adj.) | extremely eager, anxious, or enthusiastic |
| badger (v.) | to harass or annoy persistently; to tease |
| baffle (v.) | to puzzle completely; to prevent from achieving a goal; to foil |
| banal (adj.) | made stale by constant use or repetition |
| belligerent (adj., n.) | warlike or hostile; a party engaged in a war |
| benign (adj.) | gentle and kindly, wholesome or favorable |
| bicker (v.) | to engage in petty quarreling |
| bizarre (adj.) | weird or fantastic |
| bland (adj.) | mild or gentle; lacking interest or liveliness; flat |
| bungle (v.) | to mismanage or make a mess of |
| bureaucracy (n.) | a complicated system of administrative agencies and officials; the officials themselves |
| buttress (n., v.) | a support or reinforcement; to support or reinforce |
| cajole (v.) | to persuade or obtain by flattery or deceit |
| callous (adj.) | unfeeling or insensitive |
| calumny (n.) | a false statement deliberately made up to injure a person |
| candid (adj.) | fair and impartial; frank or outspoken; informal or unposed |
| cantankerous (adj.) | foul-tempered and quarrelsome |
| captious (adj.) | quick to finding faults; overly demanding |
| catholic (adj.) | broad or widely inclusive; general or universal |
| coerce (v.) | to force someone to do something against his or her will by using undue pressure, threats, intimidation, or physical violence. |
| cogent (adj.) | forceful and convincing; to the point |
| cohere (v.) | to hold, stick or fit together |
| collaborate (v.) | to work together; to cooperate |
| compatible (adj.) | able to get along with or work well together; capable of use with some other model or system |
| complacent (adj.) | overly self-satisfied; smug |
| concise (adj.) | saying a lot in a few words; brief |
| condone (v.) | to overlook or disregard an offense, thereby implying forgiveness, acceptance, or possibly approval of it |
| confrontation (n.) | a face-to-face encounter, usually suggesting a hostile or defiant attitude |
| conjecture (n., v.) | a conclusion based on inadequate evidence; a guess; to conclude from inadequate evidence; to guess |
| anthropomorphism (n.) | the representation of objects (especially a god) as having human form or traits |
| Memento Mori | Latin for "remember you will die;" a reminder of one's mortality |
| profusion (n.) | a plentiful supply; a great or generous amount |
| mnemonic (adj.) | relating to or assisting the memory |
| menagerie (n.) | a collection of live animals for study or display |
| agnosticism (n.) | the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge; a religious orientation of doubt |
| atheism (n.) | a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods |
| theism (n.) | belief in the existence of God or gods |
| lecherous (adj.) | given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity; lustful |
| lascivious (adj.) | driven by lust; inciting sexual desire |
| syncretism (n.) | the union (or attempted fusion) of different systems of thought or belief (especially in religion or philosophy) |
| ostentatious (adj.) | intended to attract notice and impress others; showy |
| tremulous (adj.) | marked by trembling, quivering or shaking |
| cosmogony (n.) | a set of religious beliefs concerning the origin of the universe |
| fratricide (n.) | a person who murders their brother or sister, or the act of doing so |
| nirvana (n.) | any place of complete bliss and delight and peace; the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation in Hinduism and Buddhism |
| destitute (adj.) | lacking something that is needed or desirable |
| eschatology (n.) | a set of religious beliefs concerning death or the end or the world |
| din (n.) | an Arabic term meaning "religion" or "way of life" |
| monolith (n.) | a single great stone often in the form of an obelisk or column |
| coarse (adj.) | harsh, raucous, or rough in tone |
| sinuous (adj.) | curved or curving in and out |
| serpentine (adj.) | winding in and out; coiled or twisted |
| occult (n.) | supernatural forces and events and beings collectively |
| unkempt (adj.) | not properly maintained; untidy |
| lithe (adj.) | gracefully slender; flexible |
| aura (n.) | a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing |
| apparition (n.) | the appearance of a ghostlike figure |
| sublime (adj.) | inspiring awe |
| interminable (adj.) | tiresomely long; endless |
| ephemeral (adj.) | enduring a very short time |
| hallucination (n.) | illusory perception |
| livid (adj.) | furiously angry; pale or ash-colored |
| sycophantic (adj.) | attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery |
| pallid (adj.) | abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress |
| disposition (n.) | mood or temperament; a habitual tendancy and inclination |
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