Chapter 15 and 16 English Vocab
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cartersmith00 on April 7, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 circuitous | roundabout; indirect |
| circumspect | cautious and watchful; prudent |
| circumference | the outer boundary of a circle; the perimeter |
| orbit | the path of one body as it revolves around another body |
| orb | a sphere; anything spherical in shape |
| configuration | a shape or outline; a method of arrangement |
| figurative | using figures of speech; symbolic, not literal |
| cyclic | occurring or moving in cycles |
| encyclopedic | possessing information about many subjects or intensively about one subject |
| feign | to pretend |
| feint | a misleading movement or pretended attack |
| effigy | a sculpture or medel of a person |
| ideology | the main ideas of a class, group, or movement |
| rote | by memory without thought of the meaning |
| rotunda | a circular domed building or hall |
| rotund | plump; rounded |
| cavernous | like a large cave in size or darkness |
| concave | curved like the inner surface of a ball |
| excavate | to dig out; to make a hole my digging |
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