Vocab Lesson 7+8

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acquisitive

Back 1

eagerly seeking to obtain things, wealth, or information

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inquisition

Back 2

1prolonged inquiry or questioning, especially a harsh investigation on religious or political issues

2 The specialized court of the Roman Catholic church in the Middle Ages to combat, suppress, and punish hersery; any belief varying from theirs

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querulous

Back 3

complaining irritable peevish

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dynamo

Back 4

1 an electric generator

2 an extremely forceful energetic or hardworking person

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dynasty

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1 a succession of rules from the same family or line

2 a succession of influencial people people linked by familial political social or cultural asscoiation

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demise

Back 6

death or the end of an exisitance or operation of something

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emissary

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a person sent on a special mission

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premise

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1 a proposition offered as a basis for argument

2 in logic, each of the first of two propositions in a syllogism

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metretricious

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1attention getting in a vulgar way, tawdry or tacky

2 insincere based on pretense or deception

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mertitorious

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praiseworthy deserving reward or esteem

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importune

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to make repeated and insistent requests demands or requests

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oppertunist

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a person or animal taking advantage of any chance to achieve an end in a forceful self serving way

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presumption

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1 arrogance excessive self assurance unbecoming boldness

2 grounds for belief assumption or supposition

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subsume

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to place in a larger category or under a general heading principle

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sumptuary

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pertaining to or regulating expenditure often for religious or moral reasons usually relating to clothing or food

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acerbic

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1 sour or bitter taste

2 harsh in speech or manner or temper

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acrid

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bitterly pungent or harsh in taste or smell

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exacerbate

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to increase the severity of something, to intensify or violence

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acrimony

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bitter sharp animosity eps in behavior or speech

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acumen

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keenness of insight and discernment

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acute

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1very discerning quick to alert impressions

2severe instense

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peremptory

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1urgently commanding officious or arrogantly dictoral

2not allowing any contradiction or further disagreement

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peempt

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to take precedence over someone or something already arranged in place, so seize authority

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redemption

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1deliverance from sin, atonement for guilt

2retrieval reclamation reformation

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technocracy

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government or social systems that put technelogical theories into practice

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plutocrat

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a member of a governing wealthy class or a person whose wealth grants political influence

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pencuniary

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relating to money or necessary payment of it

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impecunious

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lacking money peniless

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comportment

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behavior demeanor mode of bearing or movement

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purport

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to claim, profess (without giving proof) to appear to be

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quaero quaerere quaesivi quaesititum

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to seek, to search for

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dunamis

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power

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dunasthai

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to be able, to have strength

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mitto, mittere, misi, missum

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to send

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mereo merre merui meritum

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to earn to deserve to merit

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portus

Back 36

harbor gate

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sumo sumere sumpsi sumptum

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to take/obtain

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acer

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sharp

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acerbo acerbare acerbavi acerbatum

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to make sour

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acerbus

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bitter sour harsh

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acuo acuere acui acutum

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to sharpen

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emo emere emi emptum

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to buy

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kratos

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strength power

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penunia

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money wealth

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porto portare portavi portatum

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to carry