Flashcards: Review Vocabulary

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Flashcards: Review Vocabulary

Bias
Slant, Angle
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Bias Slant, Angle
Author's Bias author's POV, perspective or main point
Naïve simple, ignorant, plain, unsuspecting, inexperienced
Bi-peds having two feet or legs
Scourge a severe disease, famine or affliction
Crevices small openings or cracks
Predator one who preys on others
Aquarist one who maintains an aquarium (root= aqua - water)
Aura a pervasive quality or character, a light around someone; a companion of Artemis who bore two twins to Dionysus.
Relentless unyielding, without ceasing, unappeasable, unforgiving
Resonates to echo or resound
Interpretation an explanation of the meaning of an author's work
Comical funny, amusing (root = comic)
Persistent tenacious, to persevere, stubborn
Hesitant (related to hesitate) undecided, doubtful, to pause before proceeding
Contagious communicable by contact, catching (contagious disease)
Impulsive to act without thinking, to be driving or impelling (an impulsive decision)
Horde a teeming crowd or throng
Heeding to give consideration or attention to
Hasty rapid in action or movement, speedy, fast
Indecisive indefinite, unable to make a decision, irresolute
Undesirable not wanted, not desired
Inevitable unavoidable, bound to happen no matter what
Disadvantages a handicap, not an advantage, unfavorable, inferior to
Alternatives options, something which can be chosen instead of, another choice
Improbable unlikely, not probable to occur
Impractical unwise, not practical, unadvisable
Unavoidable unable to be avoided; inevitable
Unpredictable not predictable; not to be foreseen or foretold
Adequate as much or as good as necessary for some requirement or purpose

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