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Language - English
8th Grade
10/07/2012

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Term

assuage- verb

[uh-sweyj, uh-sweyzh]

 

ex: He has partially assuaged the sense of insecurity developed by margaret thatcher.

Definition
to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.

to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve: to assuage one's hunger.

to soothe, calm, or mollify: to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.
Term

covet- verb

[kuhv-it]

 

ex-  when he won the prize they all coveted.

Definition
to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.

to wish for, especially eagerly
Term

antipode- noun

[an-ti-pohd]

 

ex-

Definition
a direct or exact opposite.
Term

prototype- noun/verb

[proh-tuh-tahyp]

 

ex- The first prototype cell to use photonic crystals looks promising.

Definition

noun-

the original or model on which something is based or formed.

someone or something that serves to illustrate the typical qualities of a class; model; exemplar: She is the prototype of a student activist.

something analogous to another thing of a later period: a Renaissance prototype of our modern public housing.

Biology . an archetype; a primitive form regarded as the basis of a group.
verb- to create the prototype or an experimental model of: to prototype a solar-power car.
Term

aloof- adverb

[uh-loof]

 

ex- They always stood aloof from their classmates.

Definition
at a distance, especially in feeling or interest; apart: They always stood aloof from their classmates.
Term

banal- adjective

 

[buh-nal, -nahl, beyn-l]

ex-  a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier.

Definition
 
devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier.
Term

antecedent- adjective

[an-tuh-seed-nt]

 

ex- Being smart, it seems, is a necessary antecedent to freedom.

Definition
preceding; prior: an antecedent event.
Term

plausible- adjective

[plaw-zuh-buhl]

 

ex- On Mythbusters, the results they say for the myths are either busted, confirmed or plausible.

Definition
having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable: a plausible excuse; a plausible plot.

well-spoken and apparently, but often deceptively, worthy of confidence or trust: a plausible commentator.
Term

prudent- adjective

[prood-nt]

ex- Such control may be prudent at one stage of the malady and not at a later stage.

Definition
wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.

careful in providing for the future; provident: a prudent decison.
Term

aesthetic- adjective

 [es-thet-ik or, especially Brit., ees-]

 

ex- Aside from the obvious aesthetic benefits of this building style, there are engineering advantages.

Definition
pertaining to a sense of the beautiful or to the science of aesthetics.

having a sense of the beautiful; characterized by a love of beauty.

pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality.
Term

pre-: a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “before” ( preclude; prevent ); applied freely as a prefix, with the meanings “prior to,” “in advance of,” “early,” “beforehand,” “before,” “in front of,” and with other figurative meanings ( preschool; prewar; prepay; preoral; prefrontal ).

 

-able: a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,” associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin ( laudable ); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition to stems of any origin ( teachable; photographable ).

 

ant-: variant of anti- before a vowel or h: antacid; anthelmintic

 

cred:

n

slang short for credibility : street cred

 

proto- : first in time, order or rank; oraginal. ex- prototype.

 

 

 

 

 

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