List 4 Flashcards
Characterized by constant changes, activity, or progress
Dynamic
A powerful explosive
Dynamite
A machine for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy; a generator
Dynamo
To hold someone closely in one’s arms, especially as sign of affection
Embrace
To fix an object firmly and deeply in a surrounding mass
Embed
To give someone the authority or power to do something
Empower
A feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness
Euphoria
A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically some who has just died
Eulogy
A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant
Euphemism
To remove or take out especially by effort or force
Extract
To make something visible by uncovering it
Expose
To force someone to leave a place especially a country
Expel
A mistaken belief especially one based on unsound argument
Fallacy
The state of being untrue
Falsehood
To alter information as to mislead
Falsify
To strengthen a place with defensive works to protect it against attack
Fortify
Courage in pain or adversity
Fortitude
A military stronghold especially a strongly fortified town fit for a large garrison
Fortress
To study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics
Genetics
To produce or create something
Generate
The origin or mode of formation of something
Genesis
A circumstance that happens by chance
Happenstance
Lacking any obvious principle of organization
Haphazard
Unfortunate
Hapless
