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to scold
ex.)the teacher reproved her students strongly for talking during her lecture |
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| worthy of blame or censure |
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deserving of blame
ex.)although the DNA evidence clearly proved he was culpable, the defendant continued to claim innocence |
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to accuse of an offense
ex.)the mob boss was indicted on ten counts of money laundering |
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| to blame; to express disapproval |
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to punish severely
ex.)We may blame the students, castigate them as lazy or lacking commitment, and even rebuke the students |
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to punish severely
ex.)Please do not berate others to propagate(cause to multiply; reproduce; spread in amount) what you think to be the ideal society |
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careful; ethical
ex.)always a scrupulous student; she made sure she got her assignments in on time |
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| attentive in detail; painstaking |
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| indefatigable (in-deh-fateh-bol) |
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minimal; full of self-discipline
ex.)Alissa's spartan regimen included learning 50 new vocabulary words each week |
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hard working;showing great care and perseverance
ex.)she was assiduous in enhancing every feature |
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| full of initiative and imagination |
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| determined; willing to push on |
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| to do what one is expected to do |
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| iconoclast (i-con-oh-clast) |
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one who challenges tradition
ex.)always an iconoclast, he did everything in his power to do the opposite of what was expected |
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| opinion or action that violates traditional belief |
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rebellious
ex.)the villagers became more insurgent each day that the army remained in their midst |
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a practice that comports(to conduct oneself; behave) with the norms of a society
ex.)Ms. Frazier's teaching style went against convention and thus angered the conservative school board |
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refusal to submit to authority
ex.)by punishing all insubordination, the commander showed his troops that no disobedience would be tolerated |
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an outlaw; a person who deserts a party or cause for another; traitorous
ex.)Cancer is a disease that begins as a renegade human cell over which the body has lost control. |
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an uprising; resistance against civil authority or an established government
ex.)The cheated victors became founders of the insurrection |
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| one who strongly opposes accepted opinion |
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| apostasy (ah-pos-teh-see) |
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abandonment of a belief
ex.)In countries ruled by Islamic law one can be killed for apostasy |
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an insult
ex.)when he found out that his dad had let him win, Frank took it as an affront to his tennis skills |
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unrefined
ex.)His crass behavior at the dinner table horrified the princess, who had never seen such poor manners |
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rudely bold
ex.)the young soldier's impudence would be punished; it is not wise to undermine the authority of a superior officer |
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crude; barbaric
ex.)the boorish barbarians ripped at the meat with their bare hands and spit bones out onto the table |
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1. disrespectful
ex.)the irreverence with which he mocked his teachers showed he had no respect for their authority
2. irrelevant |
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| disrespectfully jocular; using humor inappropriately |
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cruel and aggressive; eager or quick to argue/fight
ex.)his days of truculent defiance were over |
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| effrontery (eh-fron-tury) |
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boldness; brashness
ex.) She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples |
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| having a cold personality |
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relating to the stars
ex.)the supernova is perhaps the most dramatic of astral events |
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pertaining to sailing
ex.)the southern tip of Africa poses many nautical challenges to even the most adept and experienced sailor |
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fertile; fruitful
ex.)over the summer, our fecund vegetable garden provided us with an endless supply of wonderful salads |
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| unused; plowed but not cultivated |
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able to be cultivated
ex.)save the arable land for food |
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| desiccated (des-eh-kate~ed) |
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the state or process of being completely dried out
ex.)The forest trees were desiccated by the blazing sun heat |
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1. swampy land; a soft boggy area of land that gives way underfoot
ex.)torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire
2. difficult/complex/awkward situation; muddle; predicament |
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characteristic of the countryside
ex.)Apple orchards nearby add to the bucolic charm |
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| to nurture; to grow crops |
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lack; scarcity
ex.)I love good food, so I'm frustrated by the paucity of good restaurants in town |
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an excessive amount
ex.)the surfeit of food on the table for Thanksgiving dinner left us all with bulging stomachs |
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abundant
ex.)the copious mistakes in his final paper showed his lack of effort |
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having lots of room
ex.)the capacious auditorium had enough seats for the whole school to sit in with room to spare |
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completely filled
ex.)the old storage facility was replete with decrepit furniture that had far outlived its usefulness |
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| thinly dispersed or scattered |
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to make less dense or less plentiful
ex.)moisture rarefies when heated |
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plentiful; of common or frequent occurrence
ex.)Increasingly, the world seems to be rife with contamination |
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| a cause of great trouble or suffering |
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| feeble; characterized by oxygen deficiency in the blood |
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| a disorder causing suffering |
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| a poem or song relating to death |
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| an inscription found on a gravestone |
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| the blues; persistent unhappiness |
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the study of the origin of words
ex.)a good understanding of etymology can help you succeed on the SAT |
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| the study of human activities and cultures in the past |
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| the study of human cultures |
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the study of the meaning of words and symbols
ex.)It's amazing that the noun pedestrian and the adjective pedestrian can be so different semantically |
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| the study of human social behavior and social institutions |
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| the study of statistics relating to human populations |
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| the study of fossils and ancient life |
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| the study of the human brain and nervous system |
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| to exclude from a group; exile |
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| one who likes to live alone; hermit |
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| an individual who has been excluded from a group; outcast |
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to banish; to demote in rank
ex.)they aim to prevent women from being relegated to a secondary role |
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| a period of isolation for someone infected with a contagion |
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| disseminate (dis-sem-en-ate) |
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to spread information
ex.)the members of the band disseminated flyers that advertised their debut concert |
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| to grow rapidly; to produce offspring at a rapid pace |
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| to accumulate; to gather together |
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to swell; to increase in size because of pressure inside
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to cause to multiply; to publicize; to travel through a medium; to spread and promote widely
ex.)the French propagated the idea that the English were violent and gluttonous drunkards |
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1. to flood; deluge
ex.)the islands may be the first to be inundated as sea levels rise
2. overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with
ex.)we've been inundated with complaints from listeners |
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| disperse; to spread out, as a gas |
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| to attach; to acquire land to expand an existing country |
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something added; a supplement to a book
ex.)after he completed the story, the author wrote an addendum explaining why he finished it the way he did |
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| a message added after the completion of a letter (P.S.) |
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| an extra chapter added onto the end of a novel |
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to affix something; to add on as an attachment or supplement
ex.)the results of the survey are appended to this chapter |
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added in a subordinate capacity; a thing added to something else as a supplementary rather than an essential part
ex.)although principally a biologist, Dr. Carter was also an adjunct professor in the zoology department |
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to add onto; to make greater
ex.)one way to augment your SAT score is to study vocabulary |
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the act of surrendering or yielding
ex.)the cession of twenty important towns |
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to take another's work or possessions as one's own, usually without permission
ex.)his images have been appropriated by advertisers |
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| supplementary material at the end of a text |
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| to add something to complete or strengthen a whole |
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having/enclose with distinct boundaries or limits; encircle
ex.) to circumscribe a city on a map |
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1. conduct oneself; behave
ex.)articulate students who comported themselves well in television interviews
2. accord with; agree with
ex.)the actions that comport with her own liberal views |
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