AP English : Vocab 11-12

Question 1

abscess

Answer 1

swollen, inflamed area of body tissues

Question 2

aphasia

Answer 2

loss of power to use or understand words, usually caused by brain disease or injurt

Question 3

arteriosclerosis

Answer 3

a thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, as in old age

Question 4

benign

Answer 4

beneficial; not malignant

Question 5

biopsy

Answer 5

the cutting out of a piece of tissue for diagnostic examination by microscope

Question 6

cadaver

Answer 6

dead body; corpse for dissection

Question 7

carcinogen

Answer 7

any substance that causes cancer

Question 8

comatose

Answer 8

as if in acoma; lethargic

Question 9

etiology

Answer 9

the science of the causes that origins of disease

Question 10

malingerer

Answer 10

one who fakes illness and pretends to be suffering

Question 11

mastecomy

Answer 11

the surgical removal of a breast

Question 12

prosthesis

Answer 12

replacement for a missing part of the body

Question 13

Simian

Answer 13

of or like a monkey or an ape

Question 14

tharapeutic

Answer 14

curative; serving to heal

Question 15

vasectomy

Answer 15

the surgical removal of the duct that conveys the male sperm

Question 16

behemoth

Answer 16

huge animal; something enormous

Question 17

bovine

Answer 17

an ox, cow, or related animal; having oxlike qualities; slow, dull, stupid

Question 18

carnivorous

Answer 18

flesh eating

Question 19

equine

Answer 19

a horse; or, like, or characteristic of a horse

Question 20

feline

Answer 20

a member of the family that includes lions, tigers, hagyars, and wild and domestic cats; resembling or suggestive of a cat, as in suppleness, slyness, treachery

Question 21

harbinger

Answer 21

forerunner

Question 22

leonine

Answer 22

of or pertaining to, or characteristic of a lion

Question 23

porcine

Answer 23

of or pertaining to swine of pigs

piglike

Question 24

predator

Answer 24

an animal that preys on others

Question 25

saurian

Answer 25

of or having the characteristics of lizards

a lizard

Question 26

ursine

Answer 26

of of characteristic of a bear

Question 27

venomous

Answer 27

malicious, spiteful, poisonous

Question 28

vixen

Answer 28

a female fox, a quarrelsome shrewish or malicious woman

Question 29

vulpine

Answer 29

of, resembling, or characteristic of a fox

clever, devious of cunning