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Vocab lesson 5+6

Terms in this set (30)

Amicable
adj. Friendly: peaceable n) Amicability, N) amicableness, adv) amicably
amity
n. Friendship: friendly relations
enamored
adj. In love with: charmed by(used with of)
inimical
adj. 1. Harmful
2. hostile; unfriendly
odious
adj. hateful; distasteful adv: odiously, n: odiousness, odium
bibliophile
n. a lover of books n: bibliophilia
philander
intr.V. to engage in casual love affairs (referring to men) N: philanderer, philandering
philanthropy
n.1. Goodwill to fellow human beings
2. A charitable gift, act, or organization adj: Philanthropic, philanthropical, n: philanthropist
antonym: misanthropy
phobia
n. Strong, irrational fear or hatred adj: Phobic
acrophobia
n. Fear of heights n: acrophobe
hydrophobia
n.1. fear of water
2. Rabies (a usually fatal disease caused by a bite from an infected animal) n: hydrophobe
xenophobia
n. Fear or hatred of what is strange or foreign, or of foreigners N: xenophobe
appease
tr.v. to calm: to satisfy or relieve adj: appeasable, adv: appeasably, n: appeasement, appeaser
pacific
adj. peaceful, serene adv: pacifically
pacify
tr.v. 1. to calm; to make quiet
2. to end war or violence
antipathy
n. a hatred or dislike adj: antipathetic, antipathetical adv: antipathetically
apathy
n.1. lack of feeling, energy, or interest
2. indifference adj: apathetic
empathy
n. the ability to identify with someone else and understand that person's situation of feelings adj: empathic adv: empathically v.empathize
pathological
adj. 1. referring to pathology, the study of disease
2. caused by disease
3. abnormal in behavior Adj: pathologic n: pathology, pathologist
pathos
n. a feeling of sympathy; a quality that arouses pity or tenderness
misogamy
n. hatred of marriage n: misogamist adj: misogamistic
misogyny
n. hatred of women adj: misogynic misogynistic, misogynous n. misogynist
dysentery
n. severe diarrhea
dyslexia
n. a serious difficulty learning to read in the usual way adj: dyslexic
covet
tr.v. to crave or desire, especially something belonging to someone else adj: coveted, covetous adv: covetously n: covetousness
cupidity
n. Greed; avarice
complacent
adj. self-satisfied; smug n: complacence, complacency adv: complacently
implacable
adj. impossible to calm or appease n: implacableness, implacability antonym: placable
placate
tr.v. to calm; to pacify; to appease n: placater, placation adj: placatory, placative
placid
adj. showing calmness; peacefulness or composure n:placidity, placidness adv: placidly
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