Flashcards: Quarter 3 Vocabulary
All 31 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Mutation | a change or alteration in form or qualities |
| Nebula | a large cloud of gas and dust in space, spread out in an immense volume |
| Nocturnal | belonging to or active during the night |
| Nuisance | a bothersome annoying person |
| Omnivore | an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substances |
| Outrageous | greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation |
| Ozone | a colorless gas (O3) soluble in alkalis and cold water |
| Parasite | an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant) |
| Phloem | (botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed |
| Plateau | a relatively flat highland |
| Polygon | a closed plane figure bounded by straight sides, a flat shape with many straight sides |
| Protagonist | the principal character in a work of fiction |
| Pulverize | destroy completely |
| Quandary | a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one |
| Quarantine | isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease |
| Quota | a prescribed number |
| Rainforest | a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall. |
| Random | lacking any definite plan or order or purpose |
| Recede | become faint or more distant |
| Renaissance | the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world |
| Renegade | a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. |
| Repose | lean in a comfortable resting position |
| Sacrifice | kill or destroy |
| Silhouette | a drawing of the outline of an object |
| Participle | a verb form that can act as the main verb in a verb phrase or as an adjective to modify a noun or a pronoun |
| anti- | against, opposed to |
| equi- | equal |
| acer, acri | bitter, sharp, sour |
| form | shape |
| -ment | act of, result |
| -ure | process, state of |
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