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Chapter 2 Flashcards

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CONDESCENDED                                               Ch. 2 #1
part of speech
(VERB)
phonetic spelling
(kŏn′dĭ-sĕnd)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. To do something that one regards as beneath one’s social rank or dignity; lower oneself.
  2. To behave in a patronizing or superior manner toward someone: Viewed as a popularizer more than a scholar, he was condescended to by his academic colleagues.
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FORAY                                                                  Ch.2 #2
part of speech
(NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(fôr ā′, fŏ rā′)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. A sudden raid or military advance.
  2. A venture or an initial attempt, especially outside one’s usual area: an actor’s foray into politics.
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TRANSACTION                                                     Ch.2 #3
part of speech
(NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(trăn-săk shən, -zăk -)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. The act of transacting or the fact of being transacted.
  2. Something transacted, especially a business agreement or exchange.
  3. Communication involving two or more people that affects all those involved; personal interaction: “a rich sense of the transaction between writer and reader” (William Zinsser).
  4. transactions A record of business conducted at a meeting; proceedings.
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APPREHENSIVELY                                               Ch.2 #4
part of speech
(ADJECTIVE)
phonetic spelling 
(ăp′rĭ-hĕn sĭv)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy: was apprehensive before the surgery.
  2. Archaic Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.
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INDIGENOUS                                                        Ch.2 #5
part of speech
(ADJECTIVE)
phonetic spelling
(ĭn-dĭj ə-nəs)
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Dictionary meaning:
1. Originating, growing, or produced in a certain place or region. See Synonyms at native.
2.
a. Being a member of the original inhabitants of a particular place.
b. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of such inhabitants.

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SECEDED                                                              Ch.2 #6
part of speech
(VERB)
phonetic spelling
(sĭ-sēd )
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Dictionary meaning:

1. To withdraw formally from membership in a state, union, or other political entity.

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CATAWBA                                                             Ch.2 #7
part of speech
(NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(kə-tô bə)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting territory along the Catawba River in North and South Carolina and now located in western South Carolina.
  2. The Siouan language of the Catawba.
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CUNNING                                                              Ch.2 #8
part of speech
(ADJECTIVE)
phonetic spelling
(kŭn ĭng)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.
  2. Executed with or exhibiting ingenuity.
  3. Delicately pleasing; pretty or cute: a cunning pet.
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LITERATE                                                              Ch.2 #9
part of speech
(ADJECTIVE)
phonetic spelling
(lĭt ər-ĭt)
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Dictionary meaning:
1.
a. Able to read and write.
b. Knowledgeable or educated in a particular field or fields.
2. Familiar with literature; literary.
3. Well-written; polished: a literate essay.

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ILLICITLY                                                               Ch.2 #10
part of speech
(ADJECTIVE)
phonetic spelling
(ĭ-lĭs ĭt)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. Not sanctioned by custom or law; improper or unlawful.
  2. Linguistics Improperly formed; ungrammatical.
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SENTIMENTALITY                                                Ch.2 #11
part of speech
(NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(sĕn′tə-mĕn-tăl ĭ-tē)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. The quality or condition of being sentimental, especially excessively or extravagantly so.
  2. A sentimental idea or an expression of it.
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UNION SUIT                                                         Ch.2 #12
part of speech
(NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(none)
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Dictionary meaning:

1. A one-piece undergarment combining shirt and long pants.

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ENTAILMENT                                                       Ch.2 #13
part of speech
(VERB/NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(ĕn-tāl , ĭn-)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. To have, impose, or require as a necessary accompaniment or consequence: The investment entailed a high risk. The proposition X is a rose entails the proposition X is a flower because all roses are flowers.
  2. To limit the inheritance of (property) to a specified succession of heirs.
  3. To bestow or impose on a person or a specified succession of heirs.
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VEXATIONS                                                        Ch.2 #15
part of speech
(NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(vĕk-sā shən)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. The condition of being vexed; annoyance: frowned in vexation.
  2. A source of irritation or annoyance: could no longer bear the vexations of the job.
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HILT                                                                      Ch.2 #16
part of speech
(NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(hĭlt)
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Dictionary meaning:
1. The handle of a weapon or tool.
Idiom:
to the hilt
To the limit; completely: played the role to the hilt.
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SUBSEQUENT                                                     Ch.2 #17
part of speech
(ADJECTIVE)
phonetic spelling
(sŭb sĭ-kwĕnt′, -kwənt)
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Dictionary meaning:

1. Following in time or order; succeeding.

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MORTIFICATION                                                 Ch.2 #18
part of speech
(NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(môr′tə-fĭ-kā shən)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. A feeling of shame, humiliation, or wounded pride.
  2. Discipline of the body and the appetites by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially when undertaken for religious reasons.
  3. Death or decay of living tissue; gangrene.
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SMILAX                                                                Ch.2 #19
part of speech
(NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(smī lăks′)
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Dictionary meaning:

  1. See catbrier.
  2. A climbing asparagus (Asparagus asparagoides) native to southern Africa, that has glossy foliage sometimes used in floral arrangements and that grows as a weed especially in Australia and New Zealand.
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UNINITIATED                                                       Ch.2 #20
part of speech
(ADJECTIVE/NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(ŭn′ĭ-nĭsh ē-ā′tĭd)
A

Dictionary meaning:

  1. Not knowledgeable or skilled; inexperienced.
  2. An uninformed, unskilled, or inexperienced person or group of people. Often used with the: “What’s the difference, the uninitiated may ask, between eggshell white and wedding gown white?” (Wall Street Journal).
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SOJOURN                                                            Ch.2 #21
part of speech
(VERB/NOUN)
phonetic spelling
(sō jûrn′, sō-jûrn )
A

Dictionary meaning:

  1. To reside temporarily: “His family had sojourned in New Jersey for one year only, and had then gone back to Michigan” (Jane Smiley).
  2. A temporary stay; a brief period of residence.

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