Tuesday, March 19, 2013

VOCAB!

Here are ALL the words! Let me know if your have questions!
3rd Quarter Vocab
Roots:
ang: bend
belli: war
clar: clear
counter: against
gram: writing
luc: light
lum: light
tele: far
vor: eat
rupt: break
vac: empty
sol: alone

Prefix:
Anti: against
semi: half
sub: under

Vocab:
amiable: friendly/good/natured
comply: to follow
condone: to allow a behavior that's wrong to occur
fervor: intense emotion
heed: to listen to
hypercritical: excessively critical
inadvertent: accidental
indifferent: not caring one way or another
obscure: unclear/hard to understand
repress: to hold back
tangible: touchable
verbose: talkative


SECOND QUARTER
Roots:
anthrop: man
phil: love
photo: light
migr: move
Therm: heat
Aero: air
Sect:cut
Term:end
Fic: make
Sci: know
Tact: touch

 
-ist: one who
-less: without
-ism: belief
-y: full of
-ful: full of
-er/-or: one who

supercilious: prideful
philanthropist: one who loves mankind
fickle: not reliable
lucrative: moneymaking/profitable
sage: a very wise person
mar: to damage or ruin
hoopla: excitement around an event
incredulous: skeptical/hard time believing something
zealous: having great energy and enthusiasm
dearth: a lack of something
ostracize: to exclude
diligent: hard working


FIRST QUARTER
aud-hear
bi-two/halves
biblio/bibl -book
bio-life
cap-head
chron-time
corp -body
cred-believe
credulous
dem-people
div-divide/part
egregious
eradicate
falter
gen-birth
graph-write
im-not
implore
lavish
mort-death
obliterate
pacify
pervade
pop-people
post-after
pre-before
re-again
scrupulous
snarky
spec-see
squander
struct-build
un-not
vid-see



VOCAB MEANINGS:
Credulous: gullible, easily believe something
egregious: shocking or very bad
eradicate: to get rid of
falter: to mess up or lose momentum
fickle: not reliable
hoopla: excitement around an event
implore: to beg urgently
incredulous: skeptical, have a hard time believing something
lavish: rich or luxurious
lucrative: profitable/moneymaking
mar: to damage or ruin
obliterate: to completely destroy
pacify: to calm
pervade: to spread throughout
philanthropist: a person that helps others
sage: a very wise person
scrupulous: very careful while doing something.
Snarky: rude or sarcastic
Squander: to waste something (money or time)
Supercilious: thinking you’re better than others

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