English Vocab Lessons 3 & 4: Personal Relationships
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 matrix(noun) | the surroundings within which something begins or develops |
| matriarchy(noun) | a society ruled or controlled by women |
| matriculate(transitive/intransitive verb) | to register as a student at a college or university |
| patronage(noun) | support, encouragement; customers |
| fraternize(intransitive verb) | to be friendly with; to socialize with an enemy population |
| uxorious(adjective) | dominated by one's wife |
| patronizing(transitive verb) | to go to regularly; to treat someone as an inferior |
| patriarch(noun) | the male head of a family or tribe; an Old Testament ancestor |
| patrimony(noun) | a family inheritance |
| monogamy(noun) | marriage to a single mate |
| familial(adjective) | having to do with family |
| bigamy(noun) | marriage to to mates |
| patronymic(noun) | name derived from a paternal ancestor |
| avuncular(adjective) | like an uncle |
| fraternal(adjective) | pertaining to brothers |
| puerile(adjective) | childish; immature |
| orthopedics(noun) | branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement |
| pedagogue(noun) | teacher |
| pedant(noun) | a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding; a scholarly show-off |
| entity(noun) | something that has a real or independent existence |
| nonentity(noun) | a person or thing of no importance; something that doesn't exist or exists only in the imagination |
| essence(noun) | the basic element; the identifying characteristic; a substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug; a perfume |
| moribund(adjective) | about to die or end |
| mortify(transitive verb) | to shame; to discipline oneself by denial |
| postmortem(noun) | an examination to determine the cause of death; an analysis of something that is over |
| euthanasia(noun) | the act of painlessly killing a person or animal |
| innate(adjective) | possessed at birth |
| naive(adjective) | childish; gullible |
| nascent(adjective) | emerging; coming into existence |
| renaissance(noun) | a rebirth; a renewal |
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