LA 12 Week 3 vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
| Evanescent | soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing |
| Facetious | treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant. |
| Fatuous | silly and pointless |
| Fiduciary | involving trust, esp. with regard to the relationship between a trustee and a beneficiary |
| Filibuster | an action such as a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly while not technically contravening the required procedures |
| Gamete | a mature haploid male or female germ cell that is able to unite with another of the opposite sex in sexual reproduction to form a zygote. |
| Gauche | lacking ease or grace; unsophisticated and socially awkward. |
| Gerrymander | manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class. |
| Hegemony | leadership or dominance, esp. by one country or social group over others |
| Hemoglobin | a red protein responsible for transporting oxygen in the blood of vertebrates. Its molecule comprises four subunits, each containing an iron atom bound to a heme group. |
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