Vocabulary Chapter 1-6 For Midterm

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consecrate (consecrated, consecration, consecrative...)

Back 1

to make something sacred

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execrate (execrable, execrator, execratory)

Back 2

to denounce as vile or evil;to curse; to detest

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sacrament (sacramental)

Back 3

something considered to have sacred significance.

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sacrilege (Sacgrilegious)

Back 4

disrespect to something regarded as sacred

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sacrosanct

Back 5

sacred [often used ironically]

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sanctimonious (santimoniousness)

Back 6

pretending to be righteous

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sanction

Back 7

1. approval,support, permission [n]
2. a penalty for breaking with law or custon (Usually plural)
3. to approve, to encourage [tr. v]

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sanctity

Back 8

godliness;holiness

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sanctuary

Back 9

a sacred place, any place of refuge.

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hierarchy (hierarchical, hierarchic)

Back 10

a group organized by rank

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hieroglyphic (Hieroglyph)

Back 11

1.written with pictures to represent sounds or meanings of words
2. hard to read

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expiate

Back 12

to make ammends for something, to atone for

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piety (antonym: impiety)

Back 13

religious devotion, great respect toward something, especially parents

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impious (antonym: pious)

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sacrilegious, profane, lacking appropriate revernce of respect.

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pittance

Back 15

a meager portionof anything, especially an allowance or salary.

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dogma

Back 16

a system of docrines put forward by an authority, a system of rules

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dogmatice (dogmatism,dogmatist, dogmatize)

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not open minded, passionate about opinion

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heterodox (heterodoxy)

Back 18

not in agreement with accepted beliefts; holding unorthodox opinions

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agnostic (agnosticism)

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[n] a person who believes nothing can be known about the existence of a god

[adj.] relating to the belief that the existence of god is unknowable

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physiognomy (physiognomic, physiognomical, physiognomist)

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judging someone by their faical features, facial features when regarded as revealing character

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prognosis (prognostic, prognosticate, prognostication)

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a prdiction of the outcome of a disease; any forecas or predition.

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criterion

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a standard, rle or test on which a decision or judement can be made

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hypocrisy (hypocrite, hypocritical)

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pretnding to have feelings, beliefs or virtues that one does not have.

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amnesty

Back 24

a general pardon for offenders, especially for political offenses

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mnemonic

Back 25

[adj] relating to or assisting the memory

[n] a device used in remembering

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frenetic

Back 26

[adj] frantic, frenzied

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schizophrenia

Back 27

[n] 1. a severe mental disorder in whih a person becomes unable to act or reason in a rational way, often with delusions and withdrawal from relationship
2. a situation of extreme conflict between choices, loyalties, or ways of life.

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arraign (arraignement)

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[tr.v] 1. (legal) to call to court to answer charges
2. to acuse, to charge with wrongdoing

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rationale

Back 29

the reasons underlying something, often presented as a statement. (used with for)

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sapient (sapience)

Back 30

wise, insightful

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sage

Back 31

[n]a person, usually elderly, who is honored for wisdom and experience
[adj] wise, judicious

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congnition (congnitive)

Back 32

the act of preceiving or knowing

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cognizant (cognizable,ognizance)

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aware,having knowledge of something

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connoisseur

Back 34

an expert or very dicriminating person, especially in matters of art and taste.

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notorious (totoriety, notoriousness)

Back 35

widley and unfavorable known, infamous

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compute

Back 36

to determine my mathematic

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impute

Back 37

to attibute or ascribe a qualitty, expecially a fault, to a person

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repute

Back 38

to assign a reputation to (usually used with to be)

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putative

Back 39

supposed, reputed

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presage

Back 40

[n] a sign or feeling concerning some future even,omen, forboding

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sagaciouse (sagacity)

Back 41

shrewd;havintg good judgement;preceptive

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conscientious

Back 42

1. [adj] guided by one's sense of right and wrong
2. thorough; with careful attention

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plebiscite

Back 43

a direct vote of all the people of a country or district on a important matter; a referendum

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prescience (prescient)

Back 44

knowledge of events before the occur;foresight;foreknowledge

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alliteration (alliterate, alliterative)

Back 45

the occurrence of the same initial sound in several words in succession

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literal (literalize,literally)

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1. [adj] in accordance with the explicit or primary meaning of a word or phrase, not its metaphorical meaning
2. word for word
3.concerned mainly with the facts, unimaginative

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literate (litearacy)

Back 47

1. [adj] able to read and write
2. knowledgeable, educated

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obliterate (obliteration)

Back 48

to do away with completely, to wipe out, erase

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ascribe (ascription)

Back 49

to attribute to a particular cause, source, or origin (used with to)

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cirbuscribe (circumscription)

Back 50

1.to draw a line around, to encircle
2. to confine, to limit

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conscription (conscript)

Back 51

a military draft

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proscribe (proscription

Back 52

1. to denounce or condem
2. to prohibit, forbid

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subscribe (subscriber, subscript)

Back 53

1. to pledge to something or to contribute, to place an order by signing
2. to express consent or agreement
3. to sign ones name to something

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transcribe (transcriber, transcript, transpcription)

Back 54

1. to make a copy of, to write out fully
2. to make a sound recording for later reproduction
3. to arrange music for an instrument different from the one first composed for.

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acronym (acronymic, acronymous)

Back 55

a word composed of the first letters or parts of a name or series of words.

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onomatopoeia (onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic)

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a word that sounds like the thing it names

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pseudonym (pseudonymouse, pseudonumousness)

Back 57

a fictious name

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ignominious (ignominy)

Back 58

shameful;disgraceful

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nomenclature

Back 59

a system of naming especially in arts or science.

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epigram (epigrammatic, epigramatism, epigrammatize)

Back 60

a short, witty saying

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epigraph

Back 61

an inscription on a monument or bulding, on a coin, or at the beginning of a book or chapter

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choreogrphy

Back 62

the art of creating dances

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graffiti

Back 63

words or drawings scratched or scribbled on a wall.

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graphic

Back 64

1. [adj] relating to the visual arts like drwaing, painting, lettering, or engraving
2. giving a vivid description

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lithograph (lithographer, lithographic, litography)

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a print produced by a printing process in which a smooth surface si treated so that ink will adhere only to the design to be printed

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topography

Back 66

the fretures of an area [rivers, mountains...]

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eclectic (exlectic, eclecticism)

Back 67

consisting of parts selected from various sources

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lexicon

Back 68

1. spcialized dictionary
2. the spcialized vocabulary of a particular topic or profession

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analogy (analogize, analogous, analouge)

Back 69

a comparison between things that are alike in some ways

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apologist

Back 70

a person who makes an argument in support of someone or something

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epilouge

Back 71

short concluding section in a literary work

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logo

Back 72

a symbol or design that serves to identify an organization or institution

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logistics

Back 73

the organization of supplies and services

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eulogy

Back 74

a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially honoring the dead