Hackers Lesson 46-49 Flashcards
eulogy
an honorific speech at a funeral
despondent
lacking hope
doleful
filled with grief
anemic
feeble; characterized by oxygen deficiency in the blood
malady
a disease
anguish
extreme suffering
dirge
a funeral song
blight
a diseased condition
affliction
a disorder causing suffering
elegy
a poem or song relating to death
epitaph
an inscription found on a gravestone
doldrums
the blues; persistent unhappiness
adversity
hardship
etymology
the study of the origin of words
archaeology
the study of past cultures
anthropology
the study of human cultures
ethics
the study of and philosophy of moral choice
semantics
the study of the meanings of words and symbols
theology
the study of religion
pathology
the study of disease
sociology
the study of human social behavior and social institutions
entomology
the study of insects
genealogy
the study of ancestry
demographics
the study of statistics relating to human populations
oncology
the study of tumors
paleontology
the study of fossils and ancient life
neurology
the study of human brain and nervous system
hermit
one who prefer to live alone
ostracize
to exclude from a group
exile
a banishment
expel
to force to leave
recluse
one who like live alone
isolate
to place something apart from everything
solitude
isolation; the quality of being alone
banish
to force to leave an area
outcast
an individual who has been excluded from a group
seclusion
privacy
pariah
an individual who has been excluded from a group
relegate
to banish. To demote in rank
quarantine
a period of isolation for someone infected with a contagion
disseminate
to spread information
diverge
to go apart
proliferate
to group rapidly
amass
to accumulate; to gather together
distend
to swell; to increase in size
propagate
to cause to multiply; to publicize; to travel through a medium
inundate
to flood
diffuse
to spread, as a gas
germinate
to sprout; to grow
disperse
to spread apart
rampant
growing out of control
dissipate
to scatter
saturate
to fill completely, as with a liquid or solute
annex
to attach; to acquire land to expand an existing country
addendum
something added; a supplement to a book
postscript
a message added after the completion of a letter
epilogue
an extra chapter added onto the end of a novel
append
to affix something; to add on
adjunct
added in a subordinate capacity
augment
to add onto; to make greater
cession
to act of surrendering or yielding
affix
to attach
appropriate
to take another’s work or possessions as one’s own
encore
an extra performance at the end of a show
appendix
supplementary material at the end of a text
supplement
to add something to complete or strengthen a whole
circumscribed
having distinct boundaries or limits
