a Flashcards
corporeal
A: relating to a person’s body, as opposed to a spirit; bodily, carnal, freshly
the tried to bring Frank into corporeal existence
N: corporeality
demography-dem-people
N: 人口统计学; the study of births, deaths
locomotive
N: a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.
dictate
V: say aloud
2. impose, prescribe, command, decree强行规定; give orders authoritatively
I have 4 letters to dictate
2. that doesn’t give you the right to dictate me
verdict
N: an opinion or judgment
2. 有罪/无罪 的裁决
I am anxious to know your verdict on me
2. the jury returned a verdict of not guilty
domain
N: an area/territory owned/controlled by a ruler or government
2. field, area
they extended their domains by raiding neighboring peoples
2. the report was very significant in the arts education domain
eulogize
V: extol, acclaim
the police eulogized the positive affect of speed cameras
fallacious
A: based on a mistaken belief
fallacious beliefs
N: fallaciousness
infallible
A: incapable of making mistakes
doctors are infallible;she had an infallible sense of timing
falsify
V: alter (info or knowledge) as to mislead.
a laboratory that was alleged/said to be but without proof to have falsified test results
converse
V: engage in conversating
he fell in beside her they began to converse amicably
N: conversation
2. a situation, object, or statement that is the reverse of another or corresponds to it but with certain terms transposed.
A: having characteristics which are the reverse of something else already mentioned.
“the slow process of growth and the converse process of decay”
scribe
N: copyist, clerk, secretary; a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
V: write
2. mark with a scriber/marker
“he scribed a note that he passed to Dan”
2. “mark the position of the lock body on the door edge, then scribe a center mark”
