Vocab 15/16 Flashcards
Agression
The act of launching attacks (habitually)
Antipodus
Any two places opposite of each other (like earth. Arctic/antarctic)
Degradation
Reducing in rank/status/dignity <
Digress
Step away from the main topic/to turn aside from
Expedient
useful for acheiving a goal/helps
Expedite
to help/to hurry the progress
Gradiation
Process through the stages/spectrum (red blue spectrum)
Impede
to hinder/slow/to block out of the way
Pedigree
The ancestry
Pedometer
Calculates distance through steps
peon
common person
pediatry
the study of feet
podium
platform
regress
to go back/to return to a former condition
Ambulotory
Able to walk about (walking)
Constituent
Serving as a necessary part/whole
Desist
To cease something (used with from)
Destitute
Altogether lacking/poverty stricken
interstice
A space that intervenes between things
Obstinate
Very stubborn/inflexible
Oust
to force out of a position
Preamble
a introduction statment in a speech
Recalcitrant
Stubbornly resistant to authority
Restitution
Restoration of a thing that is its proper state
Stance
The position of a body while standing
Static
A rest/unmoving/electrical charges
Subsist
to exist/to be/to live