Sophomore Fourth Quarter Review

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excruciating
Extremely painful; agonizing
crux
The most important or decisive point
crucial
Extremely necessary; essential
indolent
Lazy; averse to work
doleful
Sad; mournful
dolorous
Mournful; gloomy
acerbic
Harsh and biting in tone
acrid
Stinging or biting in odor or taste
acrimonious
Exhibiting harsh sharpness in speech or mood
exacerbate
To make worse or more severe
fervent
Passionately excited or enthusiastic
fervor
Emotional excitement; heated enthusiasm
effervescent
Highly spirited; animated
crux
cross
dol
to feel pain, to be grieved
acri
sharp
ferv
to boil, be warm
impute
To assign blame or responsibility for
dispute
To disagree with
disreputable
Not respectable; having a bad reputation
connotation
An image or idea associated with a word
denotation
The dictionary definition of a word
annotate
To explain or discuss through a note
irrational
Not based on reason or logic
rationale
A reason for doing something; explanation
rationalize
Justify; give reason for
conscientious
Diligent and careful
unconscionable
Not obeying moral laws; unscrupulous
prescient
Showing knowledge of events before they happen
put
to think
nota
to note
ratio
reason
sci
to know
aesthetic
Having to do with beauty or order
anesthetic
A substance which causes loss of feeling
apathetic
Not interested; having no strong emotion towards
empathy
Sharing of another's emotions
pathos
Power of evoking great sadness or sympathy
antipathy
Hostility or hatred
sentient
Conscious; aware
sentinel
One who watches or guards
sentiment
A feeling about something
presentiment
A feeling about something before it happens
tangible
Able to be grasped or perceived
tactile
Pertaining to touch
intact
Unbroken; whole
aes
feeling, perception
path
to feel
sens
to feel, to be aware
tact
to touch
inquisitive
Curious, asking many questions
acquisitive
Seeking to get things; greedy
requisition
Act of ordering or demanding something
espouse
To support; pledge support to
correspond
To be similar to; compare to
despondent
Lacking all hope
interrogate
To formally question
derogatory
Insulting; degrading
arrogant
Excessively proud; haughty
abrogate
To cancel; to repeal
precarious
Threatened or unsafe
imprecation
A curse
deprecate
To show disapproval of
quis
ask, seek, demand
spond
pledge, show support for
rog
to ask, demand
prec
prayer
admonition
Gentle scolding
premonition
A vision; a warning of something before it happens
counsel
To advise; make a suggestion
conciliatory
Intended to lessen another's anger
reconcile
To bring back into agreement
precaution
An action taken against danger ahead of time
cautious
Careful not to get into danger
cautionary
Intended to serve as a warning
dissuade
To convince one not to do something
persuasion
Habit or type
mon
to warn
counsil
bring together; advice
caut
to be careful
suad
advise
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