Term 3 Exam Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 apiary | place where bees are kept |
| aviary | place where birds are kept |
| badger | to tease, annoy, nag |
| halcyon | calm, peaceful |
| lionize | to treat as highly important |
| menagerie | place where animals are kept and trained; collection of wild animals |
| molt | to shed feathers, skin, hair, etc. |
| ornithology | study of birds |
| parasitic | living at the expense of another; sponging |
| parrot | to repeat mechanically, like the tropical bird which imitates human speech |
| scavenger | animal/person removing refuse, decay, etc. |
| antidote | remedy for a poison or evil |
| astringent | substance that shrinks tissues and checks flow of blood |
| astringent | severe, stern; causing contraction |
| benign | not dangerous; gentle, kindly |
| convalesce | to recover health after illness, recuperate |
| convalescent | person recovering from illness |
| fester | to form pus, rankly, rot, putrefy |
| hypochondriac | one who is morbidly anxious about personal health, or suffering from an imagined illness |
| immunity | resistance to a disease; freedom from an obligation |
| immunize | to make immune |
| lesion | injury, wound |
| malignant | threatening to cause death, non-benign; very evil |
| morbid | gruesome; having to do with disease |
| pestilential | morally harmful; pertaining to a pestilence/plague |
| regimen | set of rules, especially to improve health |
| salubrious | healthful |
| sebaceous | greasy, secreting sebum |
| therapeutic | curative |
| toxic | poisonous |
| unguent | salve, ointment |
| virulent | extremely poisonous, deadly, venomous; very bitter |
| viral | caused by a virus |
| virus | disease-causing substance too small to be seen through a microscope; corruptive force |
| acclaim | to welcome with approval, applaud loudly |
| encomium | speech or writing of high praise, tribute, eulogy |
| eulogize | to praise, extol, laud, glorify |
| laudable | praiseworthy, commendable |
| laudatory | expressing praise, eulogistic |
| plaudit | applause, enthusiastic praise |
| calumnious | falsely and maliciously accusing, defamatory, slanderous |
| derogatory | expressing low esteem, belittling, disparaging |
| imputation | charge (especially an unjust or false one), insinuation, accusation |
| libel | false and defamatory printed/written statement |
| libelous | injurious to reputation, defamatory, calumnious |
| malign | to speak evil of, vilify, traduce |
| slander | false and defamatory spoken statement, calumny |
| stigma | mark of disgrace |
| stigmatize | to brand with a mark of disgrace |
| banter | playful teasing, joking, raillery |
| caricature | drawing, imitation, or description that ridiculously exaggerates peculiarities or defects |
| droll | odd and laughter-provoking |
| facetious | in the habit of joking; said in jest without serious intent |
| flippant | treating serious matters lightly |
| harlequin | buffoon, clown |
| hilarious | boisterously merry, very funny |
| hilarity | noisy gaiety, mirth, jollity, glee |
| ironic | containing or expressing irony |
| irony | species of humor whose intended meaning is the opposite of the words used; state of affairs contrary to what would normally be expected |
| jocose | given to jesting, playfully humorous, jocular |
| levity | lack of proper seriousness, trifling gaiety, frivolty |
| ludricous | exciting laughter, ridiculous, farcical, absurd |
| parody | humorous imitation |
| sarcasm | sneering language intended to hurt a person's feelings |
| sarcastic | given to or expressing sarcasm |
| sardonic | bitterly sarcastic, mocking, sneering |
| satire | language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to ridicule |
| satiric | given to or expressing satire |
| travesty | imitation that makes a serious thing seem ridiculous, mockery |
| alacrity | cheerful willingness, readiness, liveliness |
| aversion | strong dislike, repugnance, antipathy |
| involuntary | not done of one's own free will, automatic, unintentional, spontaneous |
| loath | unwilling, averse, disinclined, reluctant |
| loathe | to have an intense aversion to, detest |
| volition | will |
| acclivity | upward slope |
| acme | highest point, pinnacle, summit |
| apogee | farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenly body; highest point, culmination |
| climactic | arranged in order of increasing force and interest |
| consummate | perfect, superb; carried to the highest degree |
| eminence | high rank |
| ethereal | of the heavens, celestial, airy, delicate, intangible |
| exalt | to lift up with joy, pride, etc., elate; to raise in rank, dignity, etc., extol, glorify |
| precipice | very steep, overhanging place, cliff |
| precipitous | steep as a precipice; hasty, rash |
| preeminent | standing out above others, superior |
| subliminate | redirect the energy of a person's bad impulses into socially and morally higher channels; purify, refine |
| sublime | elevated, noble, exalted, uplifting |
| vertex | farthest point opposite the base (as in a triangle or pyramid), apex |
| zenith | highest point, culmination; point in the heavens directly overhead |
| abject | deserving contempt, sunk to a low condition, wretched |
| abysmal | deep, profound, immeasurably great |
| abyss | bottomless, immeasurably deep space |
| anticlimax | abrupt decline from the dignified or important to the trivial or ludicrous, comedown, bathos |
| chasm | deep breach, wide gap or rift |
| declivity | downward slope |
| dregs | most worthless part, sediment at the bottom of a liquid |
| earthy | coarse, low |
| humble | of low position or condition; not proud, unpretentious, modest, courteously respectful |
| humiliate | lower the pride, position, or dignity of; abase, degrade, mortify |
| humility | freedom from pride, humbleness, lowliness, modesty |
| menial | low, mean, subservient, servile |
| nadir | lowest point |
| plumb | to get to the bottom of, ascertain the depth of, fathom |
| profound | very deep, deeply felt, intellectually deep |
| ravine | deep narrow gorge worn by running water |
| filial | of or like a son or daughter |
| fraternal | of or like a brother |
| genealogy | person's or family's descent, lineage, pedigree |
| gentility | good manners; gentry, upper class |
| kith and kin | friends and relatives, kindred |
| maternal | of or like a mother |
| nepotism | favoritism to relatives by those in power |
| paternal | of or like a father |
| progenitor | forefather |
| progeny | offspring, children, descendants |
| sibling | one of two or more children of a family |
| aroma | pleasant odor; bouquet |
| aromatic | sweet-scented, fragrant |
| fragrant | having a pleasant odor, pleasantly odorous or odoriferous |
| fusty | stale-smelling, musty, moldly; old-fashioned |
| incense | substance yielding a pleasant odor when burned |
| malodorous | ill-smelling, stinking, fetid, unpleasantly odorous |
| noisome | offensive to small, disgusting; harmful, noxious |
| olfactory | pertaining to the sense of smell |
| pungent | sharp in smell or taste, acrid, biting, stimulating |
| putrid | stinking from decay; extremely bad, corrupt |
| rancid | unpleasant to smell or taste from being spoiled or stale |
| rank | having a strong bad odor or taste, offensively gross or coarse; extreme |
| reek | to emit a strong, disagreeable smell; be permeated with |
| scent | smell, perfume |
| scent | to get a suspicion of |
| unsavory | unpleasant to taste or smell; morally offensive |
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