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Vocab Test #1
Vocab Test #1
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Literature
11th Grade
09/16/2010

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Term
Indigenous
Definition
This adjective describes people or things that are native to a region. Immigrants and translpants don't qualify.
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Interloper
Definition
Interlopers intrude where they aren't wanted, whether they are meddlers in the affairds of others or merely non-indigenous species of plants. The term originally applied to a trading company attempting business in an area where another company had a monopoly.
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Extraneous
Definition
This adjective can mean simply "coming from the outside" but it is more likely to have the st rong sense of irrelevant or unimportant.
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Germane
Definition
Nothing to do with Germany, this adjective means "relevant" or "suitable" or "closely connected". Literally, the root word means "having the same parents", so if you know Spanish, think "hermano".
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Pariah
Definition
This noun refers to a social outcast, someone not accepted in his or her society.
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Endemic
Definition
This adjective means native or commmon to or peculiar to a specific region or abstract area. Often is used to describe a negative phenomena.
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Intrinsic
Definition
This adjective is a rough synonym for "inherent", though careful stylists will find shades or difference.
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Ostracize
Definition
If you ostracize someone, you make him or her a pariah. It has the meaning of expelling a person from a community either literally or figuratively.
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Tangential
Definition
This adjective describes neither "in" nor "out", but something "slightly touching" or "barely connected".
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Ominous
Definition
Describes the threatening, the menacing.
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Portentious
Definition
Describes something carrying a sign, a portenet, of the threats of the future.
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Inauspicious
Definition
Forecasts something favorable.
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Imminent
Definition
Describes something about to occur.
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Impending
Definition
It can refer to something threatening or not. The near arrival of the event hangs over you.
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Minatory
Definition
This adjective always means "threatening", but by coincidence.
Term
Presage
Definition
This verb refers to a forewarning, an ominous feelings, a prediction.
Term
Bode/Forebode
Definition

Bode: referring to an omen

Forebode: An intenser omen.

Term
Propitiate
Definition
Describes the actions to appease or calm forces that might oppose a favorable outcome.
Term
Harbinger
Definition
Refers to a forerunner, an early warning or messener of what's to come.
Term
Squander
Definition
Expresses the idea of "wasting".
Term
Dissipation
Definition
A literal scattering or dispersing/a specialized sense of scattering one's energy through immoderate pursuit of trivial peasures.
Term
Disenfranchise
Definition
To lose the right to vote.
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Forfeiture
Definition
The idea of a penalty, a giving up of something in one's possession. It may be used in a trivial sense, or a serious one.
Term
Denude
Definition
"To make bare" often used to describe tree's losing their leaves.
Term
Privation
Definition
When you're deprived of basic necessities or comforts, you're experiencing privation.
Term
Divest
Definition
"getting rid of"
Term
Renounce
Definition
If you renounce something, you give it up.
Term
Elegiac
Definition
describes a feelings of sadness at many types of losses, friday, love, and youth.
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Bereave
Definition
"to leave desolate, usually by death". Almost always referring to events that have occured in the past.
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