murphy_vocab chapter 5_lessons 11-20
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 emancipate | (literally, "take from the hand" or power of another) release from bondage; free; liberate |
| manacle | to handcuff |
| mandate | (literally, something "given into one's hand") 1. authorization to act 2. command; order; injunction |
| manipulate | 1. operate with the hands; handle or manage skillfully; maneuver 2. manage unethically to serve a fraudulent purpose; falsify; rig |
| manual | small, helpful book capable of being carried in the hand; handbook relating to, or done with, the hands |
| manuscript | document written by hand, or typewritten |
| append | (literally, "hang on") attach; add as a supplement |
| appendix | (literally, something "hung on"); matter added to the end of a book or document |
| impending | (literally, "overhanging") threatening to occur soon; imminent |
| pendant | hanging ornament |
| pending | (literally, "hanging") waiting to be settled, not yet decided until |
| suspend | 1. hang by attaching to something 2. stop temporarily; hold up; make inoperative for a while |
| suspense | condition of being left "hanging" or in doubt; mental uncertainty; anxiety; apprehension |
| depose | 1. (literally, "put down") put out of office; dethrone |
| impose | put on as a burden, duty, tax, etc; inflict |
| postpone | (literally, "put after") put off; defer; delay |
| superimpose | put on top of or over; attach as an addition |
| transpose | (literally, "put across") change the relative order of; interchange |
| conscript | enroll (write down) into military service by compulsion; draft |
| inscription | something inscribed (written) on a monument, coin, etc |
| prescribe | (literally, "write before) 1. order; dictate; direct 2. order as a remedy |
| proscribe | condemn as harmful or illegal; prohibit; forbid |
| scribe | person who writes; author; journalist |
| script | 1. written text of a play, speech, etc 2. handwriting, penmanship |
| subscriber | one who writes his or her name at the end of a document, thereby indicating approval; one who regularly recieves a magazine, newspaper, etc |
| assimilate | make similar or like take in and incorporate as one's own |
| dissimilar | opposite of similar |
| similarity | likeness |
| simile | comparison of two different things using like or as |
| simulate | give the appearance of; feign;imitate |
| simultaneous | existing or happening at the same time; contemporary; concurrent |
| desolate | to lay waste; ravage; devastate |
| sole | one and only; single; lone |
| soliloquy | speech made to oneself when alone |
| solitary | opposite of accompanied; being or living alone; without companions |
| solitude | condition of being alone; loneliness; seclusion |
| solo | musical composition (or anything) performed by a single person |
| absolute | completely free of constitutional or other restraint utter; outright |
| dissolution | act of loosening or breaking up into component parts; disintegration; ruin |
| dissolve | to break up; disintegrate; dispand to cause to disappear |
| resolution | solving; solution; answer |
| resolve | to break up; solve; explain; unravel |
| soluble | capable of being dissolved of made into a liquid solvable |
| solvent | liquid able to dissolve another substance |
| solvent | able to pay all one's debts |
| abound | to be well supplied; teem to be plentiful; to be present in great quanitity |
| abundant | more than sufficient |
| inundate | to flood; overflow; deluge; contribute |
| redound | to flow back as a result; to contribute |
| redundant | exceeding what is necessary |
| aver | to state to be true; to affirm confidently |
| veracity | truthfulness |
| verdict | decision of a jury; opinion; judgement |
| verify | prove to be true; to confirm |
| veritable | true; actual; genuine; real |
| verity | truth; something true |
| envision | foresee; envisage; to have a mental picture of |
| improvise | to compose, recite, or sing on the spur of the moment |
| invisible | not able to be seen |
| revise | to look again to correct errors and make improvements |
| video | having to do with the transmission of reception of what is seen |
| videotape | to make a videotape recording of an event or TV program |
| visibility | degree of clearness of the atmosphere, with reference to the distance at which objects can be clearly seen |
| visual | having to do with sight |
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