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Vocab list #6 w/Latin Root
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10th Grade
04/30/2006

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Abase
Definition
Verb. To lower(physically), depress, bring or cast down
2. To lover in rank, office,condition, or character; to humiliate

a= without, not base=short/low stature
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Abduct
Definition
Verb. To lead or take away improperly by force or fraud; to carry off, kidnap
2. to draw a body apart from its natural position

ab = off, away, from
duct = to lead
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Abjure
Definition
Verb. To renounce on oath; to retract, recant
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Abstract
Definition
Verb. To remove, seperate
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Acclivity
Definition
Noun. The upward slope of a kill; an ascending slope
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Acquiescence
Definition
Noun. The act of accepting, complying, or submitting tacitly or passively.
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Daguerreotype
Definition
Noun. An early photopgraph produced on silver or a silver-covered copper plate
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Fallowness
Definition
Noun. The quality of being left untilled or unsown after plowing; being dormant or inactive
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Gangrene
Definition
Noun. Local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply
2. pervasive decay or corruption
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Gesticulate
Definition
V. to make gestues while speaking, as for emphasis
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Grail
Definition
Noun. The object of a prolonged endeavor
2. the cup or plate that was used by Jesus at the Last Supper
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Imperious
Definition
Adjective. Befitting or characteristics of one of eminent rank or attainments; commanding, dominant
2. intensley compelling; urgent
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Ingenuous
Definition
Adjective. Showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness
2. Lacking craft or subtlety
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Interim
Definition
Noun. An intervening time, interval of time; the meantime
2. A temporart or provisional arrangement, adopted in the meanwhile
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Jodhpur
Definition
Noun. A short riding booth that fastens with a buckle at the side
2. Flared trousers ending at the calves
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Ludicrous
Definition
Adjective. Amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, exxageration
2. Meriting derisive laughter or scorn as being absurdly false or foolish
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Malign
Definition
Adjective. Evil in nature, influence, or effect
2. Having or showing intense, oftence vicious, ill will
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Melodramatic
Definition
Adjective. Characterized with sensationalism, exaggeration, or an excess of emotion
Term
Opiate
Definition
Noun. Any medical preparation or and drug containing opium, used mostly to induce sleep or relive pain
2. Something that soothes or dulls the senses or causes drowsiness or inaction
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Plaintive
Definition
Adjective. Expressive of suffering or woe, melancholy
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Pyre
Definition
Noun. a combustible heap for burning a dead body as a funeral rite; a pile of material to be burned
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Retinue
Definition
Noun. The retainers or attendnants accompanying a high-ranking person
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Reverberate
Definition
Verb. To resound in succession of echoes
2. To have a prolonged or continuing effect

Adjective. Tending to reverberate
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Somnolent
Definition
Adjective. Inclined to induce sleep
2. Inclined to or heavey with sleep, drowsy, sleepy
Term
Vitality
Definition
Noun. The peculiarity that distinguishes the living from the nonliving; the capacity to live and develop
2. Power of enduring
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Abrupt
Definition
Adjective. Broken off; lacking in continuity
2. sudden, quick and unexpected
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Incorruptible
Definition
Adjective. Inflexibly honest
Term
Biocide
Definition
Noun. Substance that destroys many different organisms
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Regicide
Definition
Noun. act of killing a king
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Tyrannicide
Definition
Noun. Act of killing a tyrant
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