S1 Final Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abound | v. (literally, "rise in waves" or "overflow") 1. (used with in or with) be well supplied; teem 2. be plentiful; be present in great quantity |
| absolute | adj. 1. completely free ("loosened") of constitutional or other restraint; autocratic; despotic 2. utter; outright; unquestionable |
| abundant | adj. (literally, "rising in waves") more than sufficient; plentiful |
| adhere | v. stick; hold fast; cling; be attached |
| affinity | n. (literally, condition of being "near the boundary" or "a neighbor") kinship; sympathy; liking; attraction |
| aggregate | adj. gathered together in one mass; total; collective |
| amity | n. friendship; goodwill; friendly relations |
| amorous | adj. strongly moved by love; loving; inclined to love; enamored |
| anachronism | n. error in chronology or time order |
| animosity | n. ill will (ussually leading to active opposition); violent hatred; enmity; antagonism |
| append | v. (literally, "hang on") attach; add as a supplement |
| aristocrat | n. 1. advocate of aristocracy 2. member of the aristocracy; noble; patrician |
| assimilate | v. 1. make similar or like 2. take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb |
| authentic | adj. (literally, "from the master himself") genuine; real; reliable; trustworthy |
| autocrat | n. ruler exercising self-derived, absolute power; despot; dictator |
| automaton | n. (literally, "self-acting thing") purely mechanical person following a routine; robot |
| autonomy | n. right of self-government; independence; sovereignty |
| autopsy | n. (literally, "a seeing for oneself") medical examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death; postmortem examination |
| aver | v. state to be true; affirm confidently; assert; depose; opposite of deny |
| bilateral | adj. involving two sides |
| chronicle | n. historical account of events in the order of time; history; annals |
| coherence | n. state of sticking together; consistency; logical connection |
| collateral | adj. situated at the side; accompanying; parallel; additional; supplementary |
| congregation | n. "flock" or gathering of people for religious worship |
| confine | v. keep within limits; restrict; limit |
| definitive | adj. serving to end an unsettled matter; conclusive; final |
| degenerate | v. sink to a lower class or standard; worsen; deteriorate |
| demagogue | n. political leader who stirs up the people for personal advantage; rabble-rouser |
| depose | v. 1. (literally, "put down") put out of office; dethrone 2. state under oath; testify; swear |
| desolate | v. (literally, "make lonely or deprive of inhabitants"); lay waste; ravage; devastate adj. left alone; deserted; forlorn; abandoned; forsaken |
| dissolution | n. act of "loosening" or breaking up into component parts; disintegration; ruin; destruction |
| elucidate | v. throw light upon; make clear; explain; clarify |
| emancipate | v. (literally, "take from the hand" or power of another) release from bondage; free; liberate |
| enamored | adj. (ussually followed by of) inflamed with love; charmed; captivated |
| envision | v. foresee; envisage; have a mental picture of (something not yet a reality) |
| epidemic | adj. (literally, "among the people") affecting many people in an area at the same time; widespread n. outbreak of a rapidly spreading contagious disease affecting many people at the same time; plague; rash |
| epithet | n. (literally, something "placed on" or "added") characterizing word or phrase; descriptive name or title |
| fluctuate | v. flow like a wave; move up and down; change often and irregularly; be unsteady |
| fluent | adj. reading with a flow of words; speaking or writing easily; articulate; eloquent |
| genre | n. kind; sort; category |
| gregarious | adj. inclined to associate with the "flock" or group; fond of being with others; sociable |
| impending | adj. (literally, "overhanging") threatening to occur soon; imminent |
| impose | v. put on as a burden, duty, tax, etc.; inflict |
| improvise | v. (literally, "do something without having prepared or seen it beforehand") compose, recite, or sing on the spur of the moment; invent offhand; extemporize |
| influx | n. inflow; inpouring; inrush |
| inherent | adj. (literally, "sticking in") deeply infixed; intrinsic; essential |
| inscription | n. something inscribed (written) on a monument, coin, etc. |
| inundate | v. flood; overflow; deluge; overwhelm |
| lateral | adj. of or pertaining to the side |
| literacy | n. state of being lettered or educated; ability to read and write |
| luminary | n. one who is a source of light or inspiration to others; famous person; notable; celebrity |
| luminous | adj. emitting light; bright; shining; brilliant |
| mandate | n. (literally, something "given into one's hand") 1. authorization to act 2. command; order; injunction |
| mania | n. 1. madness; insanity 2. excessive fondness; craze |
| orthopedic | having to do with the correction and prevention of deformities, especially in children |
| panacea | n. remedy for all ills; cure-all; universal remedy; elixir |
| pandemonium | n. (literally, "abode of all the demons," i.e., hell) wild uproar; very noisy din; wild disorder; tumult; racket |
| panoply | complete suit of armor; complete covering or equipment; magnificent array |
| panorama | n. complete, unobstructed view |
| pedagogue | n. (literally, "leader of a child") teacher of children |
| pediatrics | n. branch of medicine dealing with the care, development, and diseases of babies and children |
| pending | adj. (literally, "hanging") waiting to be settled; not yet decided prep. until |
| plutocracy | n. government or country governed by the rich |
| prescribe | v. (literally, "write before") 1. order; dictate; direct 2. order as a remedy |
| proscribe | v. condemn as harmful or illegal; prohibit; forbid |
| redound | v. flow back as a result; contribute |
| redundant | adj. (literally, "flowing back") exceeding what is necessary; superfluous; surplus; opposite of concise |
| regenerate | v. cause to be born again; put new life into; reform completely; revive; reinvigorate |
| resolve | v. (literally, "unloosen") break up; solve; explain; unravel |
| simulate | v. give the appearance of; feign; imitate |
| simultaneous | adj. existing or happening at the same time; contemporary; concurrent |
| soliloquy | n. speech made to oneself when alone |
| solvent | n. substance, usually liquid, able to dissolve ("loosen") another substance, known as the "solute" |
| synchronize | v. cause to agree in time; make simultaneous |
| translucent | adj. letting light through |
| transpose | v. (literally, "put across") change the relative order of; interchange |
| unilateral | adj. one-sided; undertaken by one side only |
| veracity | n. truthfulness |
| verify | v. prove to be true; confirm; substantiate; corroborate |
| veritable | adj. true; actual; genuine; real; authentic |
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