Vocabulary Flashcards
VOC
to call to speak or voice
Define advocate
To speak on behalf of a cause
Define avocation
Hobby or calling
Define invocation
To call on someone or something for guidance a prayer
Define provoke
Speak out against someone or to bug
Define revoke
Call back
Define vocab
Words for language
Define vocation
A calling for a career or occupation
Find voucher
A document that serves as evidence of money you’ve spent and can be redeemed
BENE OR BON
Good or well
Define benevolent
Well-meaning and kindly
Define bona fide
Sincere or genuine
Define Bennison’s
A blessing
Define benign
Gentle kindly or good usually in terms of disease
Define beneficial
Resulting in good
Define Bonnie
Beautiful
MIN
Small or less
Define miniature
Small representation
Find minor
Less serious
Define minority
Smaller part
PORT
To carry or entrance
Define port
Entrance for ships
Define portage
To carry canoes or supplies across the landmass
GENS
People or kind
Define degenerate
Somebody who is corrupt immoral or person considered who has lost qualities
Define indigenous
Originating or occurring in the same place
Define progeny
Descendent of a person animal or plant an offspring
Define regenerate
Regrow to replace lost or injured tissue
VIS OR VID
To se or to look
Define improvise
Looking for a way to see if you can do something without proper materials
Define provide
Look for somebody else’s needs
Define revision
Take another look at something
Define visa
A country has looked at you and says you can come in
Define visor
It’s something you can see through
Define visionary
Looking into the future
SCRIP OR SCRIB
To write
Define conscription
Written enkistment for state to service the army
Define manuscript
Something that is written by hand
Define scrivener
A clerk who writes
Define subscribe
A written order of publication
Define transcribe
Put something into written form
Define transcript
A written version of material
NOM OR NYM
name
Define congnoman
Personal name
Define misnomer
Wrong name
Define name sake
Person or thing that has the same name as another
Define NOM de plume
A pen name
Define nomenclature
Choosing of names typically in science
Define pseudonym
Pen name
Define renown
A well-known name
MITT or MISS
To send
Define commissary
Sent to keep order
Define intermittent
Occurring at random times and is unsteady
Define Missile
Device that us sent forcibly at a target
Define missive
Along official letter that is sent out
Define permission
To send authorization
Define remittance
Money sent as a payment for goods or as a gift
Define submissive
Obedience and ready to obey authority
CHRON OR TEMP
Time
Define anachronism
A thing from a different period of time than that of which it exists
Define chronic
Of illness is persisting for a long time or always reoccurring
Define Chronicle
Factual written account of important historical events in order of when it happened
Define chronology
Order of events when it happened
Define contemporary
Living or occurring at same time
Define extemporaneous
Didn’t spend time on it
GEO OR TERR
Earth
Define geocentric
Having representing earth as a center and is a theory
Define geodesic
Shortest possible line between two points on earth
Define internment
Putting person in prison or detention
Define terra firma
Dryland on earth
