Stems test week 55
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REACHteach on April 27, 2010
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50 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| sagacious | full of wisdom |
| credence | belief |
| pellucid | crystal clear |
| lugubrious | full of mourning |
| expiate | make amends for |
| credible | believable |
| intervene | come between |
| apprehension | anxious foreboding |
| pro rata | proportionate |
| exeunt omnes | all leave |
| anomaly | abnormality |
| incuse | hammered in |
| ipse dixit | arbitrary statement |
| incipient | just beginning |
| ingenuous | innocent and naive |
| concatenate | chain together |
| neologism | new word |
| toponym | place name |
| epistolary | made of letters |
| panegyric | elaborate eulogy |
| refulgent | shining |
| misnomer | wrong name |
| perspicacity | insight |
| Sinology | study of China |
| interpolate | insert |
| elaborate solo | cadenza |
| set apart | sequester |
| excess | surfeit |
| root out | extirpate |
| forbid | proscribe |
| warring | belligerent |
| evident | manifest |
| docile | tractable |
| written contract | indenture |
| rapidly changing images | phantasmagoria |
| foreknowledge | prescience |
| cut in | incise |
| alcohol | aqua vitae |
| loud then soft | fortepiano |
| self-obsession | egomania |
| poorly constructed | incondite |
| fear of cats | ailurophobia |
| disparaging name | epithet |
| seasickness | mal de mer |
| my fault | mea culpa |
| study of value | axiology |
| a nobody | nonentity |
| state of dullness | hebetude |
| bring under the yoke | subjugate |
| lawgiving | nomothetic |
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