set 8 Flashcards
Candor
Franknes, Honesty
latin candor ‘whiteness;
Reticent
Restrained, Uncommunicative
latin re ‘back’ tacere ‘silent’
amerliorate
To improve
Servile
Overly Submissive
latin servus ‘slave’
derision
Contemp, Ridicule
latin deridere ‘scoff at’
disparity
Inequality
latin paritas ‘parity’
Flagrant
Gnaringly wong, Conspicuously evil
flagrare ‘blazing’
indolence
Lazyness
Parsimony
Stinginess
parcere ‘be sparring’
respite
A break, a rest
latin respectus ‘refuge, consideration’
Desecrate
To show disrespect, or to deface somethign sacred
latin des ‘reversal’ sacer ‘sacred’
guile
Cunning, deceitfulness
Bastion
A stronghold, A fort
bastire ‘build’
Zeal
Enthusiasm
latin zelos
adulation
excessive admiration or praise:
Latin adulari ‘fawn on’
Languid
Slow and listless
latin laxus ‘loose, lax’
pious
Religious, devout
latin pius ‘dutiful’
contrite
thouroughly sorry
latin conterere ‘grind down’ from con ‘together’ terere ‘rub’
gullible
Overly Trusting
andragogy
The mothods used to teach adults
Latin paid ‘boy’ agogos ‘guide’
Articulate
Uttered clearly in distinct syllabals, capable of speech
latin articulus ‘small connecting part’ from artus ‘joint’
assonance
Resemblance of sounds
Latin ad ‘to’ sonus ‘sound’
Benchmarking
A standard of excellence, in which similar things must be judged
latin margo ‘margin’
Conundrum
A riddle or play on words
Criterion
a standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something.
latin criticus ‘a judge’
Cumulative
Increasing or growing by accumulation or successive additions
cumulare ‘a heap’
emergent
Coming into view or notice
latin e ‘out’ mergere ‘to dip’
epitath
a commemorative incription on a tomb or mortuary monument
latin epi ‘upon’ taphos ‘tomb’
formative
Giving form or shape, molding
latin formare ‘to form’
homonym
a word pronounced the same as another but different in meaning
latin homos ‘same’ onomus ‘name’
Jargon
The language, esp vocab, particular to a particular trade or profession
juxtapose
act of placing two things together side by side
latin juxta ‘next’
malapropism
the act of misusing words
motif
A recurring subject, theme, or idea esp in literally, artistic or musical work
myriad
a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things
latin muriori ‘10,000’
onomatopoeia
the formation of a word by immitation of a sound ex cokkoo caca
latin onoma ‘name’ poiein ‘to make’
ostentatious
characterized by giving pretentious show in attempt to impress others
Oxymoron
opposite words “Cruel Kindness”
latin oxus ‘sharp’ moros ‘foolish’
paraphrase
a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form
phrazein ‘declare, tell’
pedantic
Ostentatious in ones learning
Perusal
A reading, act of reading
Phoneme
any of a small set of units, usually about 20 to 60 in number, and different for each language, considered to be the basic distinctive units of speech sound by which morphemes, words, and sentences are represented.
phonology
the study of the distribution and patterning of speech sounds in a language and of the tacit rules governing pronunciation.
plagiarism
an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author’s work as one’s own, as by not crediting the original author
latin plagium ‘a kidnapping’
soliloquy
an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself disregardful of any hearers present
latin solus ‘alone’ loquis ‘speak’
similie
two unlinke things are compared
latin similis ‘like’
