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Intro to Broadcasting List 10
Week Ten Vocab Quiz
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 1
03/17/2009

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Remuneration
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reward; pay
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Rendezvous
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An agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place
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Renege
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to go back on ones word
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repertory
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a theatrical company that perfomrs regularly and in alternate sequence several plays, operas or the like
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Repertoire
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the list of dramas, operas, or the like, that a company actor , singer is prepared perfom
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Reputable
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held in good repute; honorable; respectable
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Rescind
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to invalidate by a later action or higher authority; annul revoke
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Resilience
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the power or ability to return to the original form or position; ability to recover
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Respite
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a delay or cessation for a time; an interval of relief
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resuscitate
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to revive edp from apparent death or unconciousness
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Reticent
Definition
disposed to be silent; reserved
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risque
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daringly close to indelincacy or impropriety; off-color
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saboteur
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a person who commits or practices sabotage
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safari
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an expedition for hunting esp in East Africa
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Salient
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prominent or conspicuous
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Sclerosis
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a hardening or induration of a tissue
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semantics
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the study of meaning and the history of words
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senile
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of, pertaining to, or characteristics of old age, esp referring to a decline of the mental faculties
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Sequel
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a literary work that is complete in itself but contains the narrative of a preceding work
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Seismograph
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an instrument for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes
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Sincerity
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Freedom from deciet, hypocrasy or falsness
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Sovereignty
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supreme and independent power or authority in a state
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statistician
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an expert in or compiler of statistics
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Statistics
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the science that deals with numerical facts and data
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Stereophonic
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of, or having a system of widely seperated speakers for enhancing the realism of sound
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strontium
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a harmful radioactive isotope of stronium, produced in certain nuclear reactions
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suave
Definition
smoothly agreeable or polite; agreeably or blandly urbane
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suponea
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the usual writ for the summoning of witnesses before a court
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subsidary
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serving to assist or supplement; auxilary
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subtle
Definition
delicate or faint and mysterious; fine or delicate in meaning or intent
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