Vocabulary Builder Unit 8

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having a tendency to pick fights

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contentious

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`to swell or become expanded

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distend

Front 3

to give a sign or warning beforehand

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portend

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leaning toward a particular point of view; biased

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tendentious

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something joined on to a larger or more important body or thing

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appendage

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to pay out or use up

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expend

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an often intense natural inclination or preference

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propensity

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a sum of money paid at regular intervals in return for services or to cover expenses

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stipend

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a remedy for all ills or difficulties; cure-all

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panacea

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a wild uproar or commotion

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pandemonium

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a formal speech or statement giving high praise to someone or something

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panegyric

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a magnificent or impressive array

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panoply

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situated in or relating to a region beyond the material world

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extramundane

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to extend or project facts or data into an area not known in order to make assumptions or to predict facts or trends

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extrapolate

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A person mainly concerned with things outside themselves; a sociable and outgoing person

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extrovert

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Giving off a glow that continues after an energy source has stopped transmitting energy

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phosphorescent

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very suitable for being photographed

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photognic

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a tiny particle or bundle of radient energy

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photon

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the process by which green plants use light to produce organic matter from carbon dioxide and water

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photosynthesis

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to clarify by explaining

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elucidate

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Giving off light; easily seen through

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lucent

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hard and difficult study; the product of such study

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lucubration

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partly transparent; allowing light to pas through but diffusing it so that objects beyond cannot see clearly

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translucent

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deathless or unending existence

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immortality

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in the process of dying or approaching death; inactive or becoming out moded

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moribound

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a person who prepares the dead for burial or cremation and manages the funeral

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mortician

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to subdue or deaden (the body) espcially by self-displine or self-inlicted pain. to embarass greatly; humiliate

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mortify

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deadly; mutually destructive

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internecine

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the usually localized death of living tissue

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necrosis

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harmful to or destructive of living things

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noxious

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extremely harmful or destructive

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pernicious

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a box with strings that produce musical sounds when wind blows on them

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aeolian harp

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a guide; a center of attention

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cynosure

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using extremely few words

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laconic

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having to do with the memory; assisting the memory

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mnemonic

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relating to the philospher Plato and his teachings; involving a close relationship in which romance and sex are absent

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Platonic

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lesbian; relating to a poetic verse pattern associated with Sappho

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sapphic

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having to do with the philosopher Socrates or with his teachin method, in which he systematically questioned the student in conversation in order to draw forth truth

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socratic

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a grammatical mistake in speaking or writing. a blunder in etiqutte or proper behavior

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solecism