Vocab Assignment 11
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 "mor" | "death" |
| moribund | dying |
| mortician | undertaker |
| mortuary | funeral home |
| rigor mortis | stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death |
| "corp" | "body" |
| corps | branch of military; Marine Corps |
| corpulent | obese |
| corpus | general collection or body of writings, laws, ect |
| corpuscle | blood cell minute particle |
| corpus delicti | facts proving that a crime has been committed body of the victim in a murder case |
| esprit de corps | spirit of a body of persons; group spirit |
| habeas corpus | right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment |
| "duc (duct)" | "lead, conduct, draw" |
| aqueduct | atrificial channel for conducting water over a distance |
| conducive | tending to lead to, helpful |
| duct | tube or channel for conducting a liquid, air, ect |
| ductile | easily led |
| induce | lead on |
| traduce | milign; slander |
| viaduct | bridge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley, river, ect |
| "secut, sequ" | "follow" |
| non sequitur | statement that does not follow from previous statements |
| prosecute | follow to the end or until finished |
| "cur, curr, curs" | "run" |
| concur | agree; happen together; coincide |
| concurrent | running together; simultaneous |
| cursory | running over hastily |
| discursive | wandering from one topic to another |
| incur | bring upon oneself |
| incursion | raid |
| precursor | forerunner; predecessor |
| "gress, grad" | "step, walk, go" |
| egress | exit |
| gradation | change by steps or stages |
| grade | step, stage, degree, rating |
| gradient | slope, inclination |
| regressive | to move backward |
| retrograde | going backward, becoming worse |
| transgress | step beyond the limits or barriers; break a law |
| "ped" | "foot" |
| expedite | facilitatel accelerate or speed up |
| impede | hinder |
| velocipede | child's tricycle |
| "tact, tang" | "touch" |
| contiguous | touching; adjoining |
| contingent | accidental |
| tact | sensitive mental perception of what is appropriate on a given occasion |
| tactful | diplomatic |
| tangent | touching at only one point |
| tangential | merely touching |
| "prehend, prehens" | "seize, grasp" |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing |
| reprehend | rebuke; censure |
| reprehensible | deserving of censure |
| "ject" | "throw, cast" |
| conjecture | guess, supposition, inference |
| "vert, vers" | "turn" |
| extrovert | someone focused on outside matters rather than on inner concerns |
| inadvertently | without turning one's mind to the matter at hand |
| introvert | someone turned inward |
| introvert | turn inward |
| obverse | side turned toward the ovserver, the front of a coin, metal, etc |
| versatile | able to turn with ease from one thing to another, adaptable |
| vertigo | dizziness |
| "mis, miss, mit, mitt" | "send" |
| demise | death |
| emissary | person sent out on a mission |
| emt | send out |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals |
| missive | written message sent |
| remiss | negligent; careless; lax |
| remit | sent money; to forgive |
| "locut, loqu" | "speak, talk" |
| circumlocution | roundabout way of speaking |
| colloquial | conversational |
| colloquy | conference; conversation |
| elocution | art of speaking out or reading effectively in public |
| grandiloquent | using lofty or pompous words |
| interlocutor | questioner |
| loquacious | talkative |
| obloquy | speaking against, reproach; bad repute |
| "fer(ous)" | "bearing, producing, yielding" |
| auriferous | bearing or yielding gold |
| coniferous | bearing cones |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor |
| pestiferous | evil; infected with disease; pestilential |
| somniferous | bearing or inducing sleep |
| vociferous | producing a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy |
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