EHS SOPHOMORE VOCAB SEMESTER 1
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74 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 am/ im | to love |
| amicable | friendly; peaceful |
| enamored | inflamed with love |
| inimicable | hostile, harmful, unfriendly, enemy-like |
| paramour | illicit lover |
| AG | do, go, lead, drive |
| agitate | to move with an irregular, rapid or violent action |
| litigate | to carry on a lawsuit by judicial process (always legal) |
| prodigal | wasteful; reckless with money |
| synagogue | (Judaism) the place of worship for a Jewish congregation |
| CATA | down |
| cataclysm | a sudden violent change in the earth's surface |
| catacomb | an underground cemetery of connecting passageways with recesses for tombs |
| catalyst | substance that speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction |
| catatonic | lacking movement, activity, or expression; a form of schizophrenia in which the patient has muscle immobility and does not move |
| PLE | to fill |
| complement | something added to complete or make perfect |
| deplete | to use up gradually, to lessen in amount or value |
| implement | fulfilled or put into practice |
| replete | filled to capacity, abundantly supplied (something is usually replete WITH...) |
| NEC/ NIC/ NOX | corpse |
| internecine | deadly, mutually destructive; conflict within a group |
| necrosis | the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) |
| noxious | harmful or destructive to living things |
| pernicious | extremely harmful; deadly, fatal |
| PART | part |
| impart | to make known; disclose |
| impartial | fair; unbiased; treating all equally |
| participle | a form of a verb that can act as an adjective |
| partisan | a person who is devoted to a cause or party |
| CORD | heart |
| accord | to grant, to be in harmony, agree |
| concordance | an index of the important words in a book or in an author's works, with the passages in which they occur |
| cordial | warm, friendly, gracious |
| discordant | being @ odds, conflicting, not in harmony |
| PROT/ PROTO | first in time or first formed |
| protagonist | the main character in a book |
| protocal | a code of diplomatic or military rules of behavior |
| protoplasm | the living substance of a cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned; a full scale usually working version of a new type or design |
| SENT/ SENS | to feel |
| sensational | exiting or intense but brief interest; emotional reaction |
| sentient | a thought or attitude colored by feeling; opinion |
| sensuous | highly pleasing to the senses |
| GNI/ GNO | to know |
| cognitive | having to do with the process of knowing including awareness, judgement, and understanding |
| diagnosis | the ID of a disease by its symptoms |
| incognito | disguised; pretending not to be oneself |
| prognosis | chance of recovery from a given disease or condition |
| CIS | to cut, cut down, or slay |
| concise | brief and straightforward especially in expression or statement |
| excise | to cut out, especially surgically |
| incisive | impressively direct and decisive |
| precision | exactness of definition or statement |
| PON/ POS | to put or place |
| component | a separate part of a whole; an ingredient or element |
| disposition | tendency, inclination; basic outlook or attitude |
| repository | a place or container where something is stored |
| superimpose | to put or place one thing over something else |
| TEN/ TIN/ TAIN | hold or hold on to |
| abstinence | holding one self back voluntarily from indulging an appetite or craving |
| tenacious | stubborn |
| tenable | acceptable, reasonable |
| sustenance | something that gives support or strength |
| VINC/ VICT | to conquer; to overcome |
| evince | show, reveal |
| invincible | undefeatable |
| provincial | unworldly, lacking polish, culture and broad experience |
| victimize | to make a victim of; trick, deceive, or injure |
| VER/VERS | to turn or turn around |
| divert | to turn from one purpose or course to another |
| perverse | corrupt, improper, incorrect |
| avert | to turn away or aside from (eyes) |
| versatile | turning easily from one skill to another |
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