Classical Roots B Lesson 2
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yellowkitty on September 28, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 subvert | to upset; to overthrow; to ruin |
| subservient | excessively willing to yield; submissive |
| contort | to twist or bend out of shape |
| distort | to change something to make it false; to twist (something) out of its natural shape |
| retort | to reply quickly and sharply, often as if in reply to an accusation; a quick, witty, sometimes biting reply |
| tortuous | having many twists and turns; deceitfully roundabout; tricky |
| adversity | hardship; misfortune |
| avert | to turn away (one's eye); to prevent |
| introvert | a person whose thoughts and interests are directed inward |
| perverse | stubbornly doing something other than what is reasonable or required |
| prose | ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter (that is without verse); referring to speech or writing other than verse |
| subconscious | not fully aware; occurring below your level of thinking and awareness |
| subjective | influenced by personal feelings; occurring or taking place within the mind; unreal |
| sublimate | change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting |
| subside | wear off or die down |
| subterfuge | something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity |
| succumb | to give way to superior force, yield |
| extort | get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner |
| torque | a turning or twisting force |
| tort | to twist |
| truss | a framework of beams forming a rigid structure |
| extroversion | personality style where the individual prefers outward and group activity as opposed to inward and individual activity |
| vertebra | one of the bony segments of the spinal column |
| vertigo | condition in which one feels that one's surroundings are turning about; dizziness |
| vortex | center of a situation, which draws in all that surrounds it |
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