3Rs vocab, #3
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live4him777 on November 3, 2010
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This is the third list of words we need to know for Mr. Minick's 3Rs II. Ask me questions through chat!
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Latin | English |
|---|---|
| perdition (n) |  damnation |
| pedant (n) | a boringly academic person |
| peccadillo (n) | mistake, small offense |
| parry (v) | to block or push aside a blow |
| panoply (n) | an impressive array |
| congenital (adj) | something existing since birth |
| corroborate (v) | to verify a story |
| dilatory (adj) | slow |
| ebb (v) | to recede |
| jurisprudence (n) | the philosophy of law |
| pall (n) | a covering that darkens or obscures |
| palaver (n) | idle talk, jabbering |
| obsequious (adj) | overly submissive |
| neophyte (n) | a beginner |
| mercurial (adj) | quick, unpredictable |
| dogmatic (adj) | rigidly fixed in opinion, opinionated |
| effusive (adj) | overflowing with emotion |
| exhume (v) | to remove a corpse from a grave |
| gambol (v) | to dance playfully |
| goad (v) | to poke or prod |
| niveous (adj) | snowy |
| burgeon, burgeoning (v) | to sprout, to grow |
| cavalier (adj) | care-free, unceremonious |
| coalesce (v) | to come together, to grow together |
| commensurate (adj) | proportional |
| ebb (n) | a point of decline |
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