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67 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| renascent | showing new life |
| extemporize | improvise |
| deflect | turn away, bend |
| pugilist | boxer, fighter |
| excrescence | abnormal outgrowth |
| casuistry | specious reasoning |
| infirmity | feebleness |
| recumbent | reclining |
| admonitory | warning |
| incorrigible | not correctable |
| metamorphosis | change of shape |
| pathogen | disease causer |
| sine qua non | essential element |
| emollient | softener |
| melancholy | dark sadness |
| denouement | outcome, unraveling |
| solecism | substandard speech |
| compunction | feeling of remorse |
| inflection | change of vocal tone |
| stasis | state of equilibrium |
| immure | to wall in |
| sentient | conscious |
| ecumenical | universal |
| ex officio | by virtue of office |
| insipid | without flavor, boring |
| expatriate | banish |
| anarchist | one opposed to government |
| bonhomie | good-naturedness |
| status quo | the present state |
| mutable | changeable |
| born | nasc |
| time | temp |
| bend | flect |
| down | de |
| fight | pugn |
| one who | ist |
| grew | cresc |
| case | casus |
| strong | firm |
| lie down | cumb |
| warning | monit |
| to correct | corrigere |
| change | meta |
| shape | morph |
| condition | sis |
| disease | path |
| origin | gen |
| without | sine |
| soft | moll |
| black | mela |
| bile | chole |
| nod | knot |
| alone | sol |
| doctrine | ism |
| together | com |
| point | punct |
| act or state | tion |
| stop | sta |
| wall | mur |
| feel | sens |
| house | eco |
| service | officio |
| taste or know | sap |
| father | pater |
| good | bon |
| standing | status |
| capable of | able |
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