Reading ACT Flashcards
Exoplanet
a planet that revolves around a star other than the sun.
Habitable
capable of being inhabited
Intensity
the quality or condition of being intense
Entrepreneur
a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk.
Psychology
the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
Revel
to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in ): to revel in luxury.
Unwittingly
inadvertent; unintentional; accidental: His insult, though unwitting, pained her.
Catastrophic
of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
Manure
excrement, especially of animals, or other refuse used as fertilizer.
Organic
noting or pertaining to a class of chemical compounds that formerly comprised only those existing in or derived from plants or animals, but that now includes all other compounds of carbon.
Recession
the act of receding or withdrawing.
Forum
the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people.
Infringement
a breach or infraction, as of a law, right, or obligation; violation; transgression.
Rite of passage
Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person’s change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
Undaunted
undismayed; not discouraged; not forced to abandon purpose or effort: undaunted by failure.
Conformity
action in accord with influence over others social standards, attitudes, practices, etc.
