Vocabulary Flashcards
Smock
A light loose garment worn especially for protection of clothing
Harken
Refer to the past
Chagrin
Distress or embarrassment at having failed or been humiliated
Morpheme
Smaller word parts that carry meaning
Replete
Filled, full
Epitome
Perfect example of a type
Adage
An old familiar saying
Bona fide
In good faith
Parlance
Way of using words
Doozy
Excellent and unprecedented
Roly Poly
Pill bug that can conglobate
Pro bono
For public good
Free legal services
Put something through its paces
Testing it
Menagerie
Strange and large collection of people and things
Quad muscles
In the front of the thigh
Venerable
Respect due to age, wisdom and character
Disparate
Different in kind
Myriad
Extremely large number of people
Mung
Manipulate data
Interdisciplinary: pronounce
Glute
Gluteal or buttock muscles
Animus
Ill feeling or motivation to do something
Corpus
Collection of written text, particularly for an author or subject