Vocabulary VIII Flashcards
Flux
A flowing or flow
Patch
Sector.
Area.
Cipher
Zero.
Nonentity.
Person of no influence.
Codify
To arrange in a systematic arrangement.
Collate
To gather and arrange.
Cull
To collect.
Gather.
Compile
To gather together
Countenance
noun.
(koun-tn-uns)
Facial expression or facial expression.
“He wore a sad countenance”.
verb.
To permit or tolerate.
“You should not have countenanced his rudeness”.
Way-station
A station intermediate between principal stations.
Flush
Full.
Overflowing.
Accretion
Build-up.
Growth.
Complicit
involved in an illegal activity.
Profligate
Immoral and excessive.
Dissipated
Shamelessly devoted to pleasure
Dissolute
Indifferent to moral restraints.
Improper and immoral.
Licentious
Sexually unrestrained.
Lewd.
Libertine
A person who is sexually or morally unrestrained.
Pious
Having or showing reverence for god or religion.
Misnomer
A misapplied or inappropriate name or designation.
Sapient
Intelligent.
Enlightened.
Auto
A combining form meaning “self”, “same”.
Example: autograph, auto coup
Standardize
To bring to or make of an established standard size, weight, quality, strength, or the like.
Example: to standardize manufactured parts.
Discrete
Apart or detached from others.
Separate.
Celestial
Pertaining to the sky or universe
Homogenous
Composed of parts which are all alike.
opposite of heterogeneous
Heterogeneous
Composed of parts which are dissimilar.
opposite of homogeneous
Autotroph
(aw-tuh-trawff)
An organism that creates its own food without depending on other organisms.
Example: plants using photosynthesis
Heterotroph
(het-er-uh-trawff)
(aka “consumer”)
An organism in a food chain that is dependent on producers to obtain nutrients.
Detritivore
(di-try-ti-vore)
An organism that uses organic waste as a food source.
- certain insects
Trophic
(traw-fik)
Of or relating to nutrition.
Foment
To instigate or promote.
Truncated
(trung-kay-ted)
Shortened by having a part cut out.
Cut short.
Proconsul
An appointed administrator over an occupied area.
