Vocab weeks 3 & 4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 quell | (verb) to suppress; put an end to; extinguish |
| insurgent | (noun) a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority; rebel especially a person who engages in armed resistence to a gov. or execution of its laws |
| eddy | (noun) running randomly; to move or cause to move against the main current |
| duress | (noun) compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint |
| obscenity | (noun) the state or quality of being obscene (indecent; depraved) |
| latent | (adjective) hidden; present but not visible, apparent, or actualized; existing as potential |
| exult | (adjective) to rejoice greatly; to be jubilant or triumphant |
| hysteria | (noun) excessive or uncontrollable fear or other strong emotions |
| conglomeration | (noun) the act of gathering in a mass; a coherent mass |
| wrath | (noun) strong; stern; violent, resentful anger; rage; fury |
| dem | (Greek) meaning: people |
| micro | (Greek) meaning: small |
| ment | (Latin) meaning: the result of an action forms nouns out of verbs |
| lay | a transitive verb meaning to put ot place |
| lie | an intransitive verb meaning to recline or rest on a surface |
| affiliate | (noun) an organization that networks with another organization; a related person or part of an organization |
| compel | (verb) to force or drive, especially to a course of action |
| cognizant | (adjective) knowledgeable of something, especially through personal experience |
| provincial | (adjective) limited in outlook |
| agitator | (noun) a person who stirs up public feelings especially of discontent |
| grapple | (verb) to struggle to understand; to seize and attempt to unbalance one another for the purpose of achieving physical mastery |
| mutuality | (noun) common concerns; the quality of state of being directed by each toward the other or the others |
| gainsaying | (noun) no challenging, no difference or opinion |
| engulf | (verb) to flow over and enclose |
| moratorium | (noun) suspension of activity; a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| morph | (Greek) meaning: form |
| macro | (Greek) meaning: large |
| logue, log | (Greek) meaning: discourse, speech, to speak |
| there | an adverb designating a place |
| their | the possessive form of they |
| they're | a contraction of "they are" |
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