Chapter 4 Vocabulary Flashcards
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Amalgamate
To mix or merge so as to make a combination
Autonomous
Having autonomy; not subject to control from outside; independent
Bemoan
- To express distress or grief over; lament
- To regard with regret or disproval
Bicameral
Having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body
Cohesion
The action or fact of forming a united whole
Dogma
An official system of principle or tenets concerning faith, morals, behavior, etc, as of a church
Handicraft
- Manual skill
- An art, craft, or trade in which the skilled use of hand is required
Hostilities
A hostile state, condition, or attitude; enmity antagonism
Influx
- Act to flowing in
- An inflow
Intermittent
Stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again
Inundate
- To flood; cover or overspread
- Overwhelm
Lascivious
Inclined to lustfulness; lewd
Manumission
Release from slavery
Pestilence
A deadly or virulent epidemic disease
Piety
Reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligation
Privy
- Participating in the knowledge of something private or secret
- law a person participating directly in or having a derivative interest in a legal transaction
Propagate
To reproduce, as organism does
Periwig
A wig, especially a peruke
Rectitude
Rightness of principle, or conduct; moral virtue
Subsistence
The action of fact of maintaining or supporting oneself at a minimum level
Swell
To grow in bulk
Tenure
The holding or possessing of anything
Veneer
To make something look elegant when it’s not
Yeoman
A farmer who cultivates his own land
