vocab unit final 2

Visage

A persons face, countenance, and appearance

Vis a vis

Preposition in relation to or compared with, face to face

Visionary

A person who has strong, creative, but impractical ideas; foresight or imagination

Visitation

Visit or a short stay to examine something, a parent’s privilege to have temporary access to care for a kid

Auspicious

Promising success, favorable fortune; indicating a positive future

Conspicuous

Obvious, standing out to be clearly visible or attracting attention

Introspection

Examination of your conscious thoughts/ feelings

Perspicacious

Having keen, acute, and shrewd mental perception/judgement

Midas Touch

Uncanny ability or talent to make money easily in every venture

O.g: King Midas wished that everything he touched turned to gold, led to EVERYTHING becoming gold

Pyrrhic Victory

Victory not worth winning because of an excessive cost in the process

Og: Pyrrhus beat the Romans but lost all of him men

aberrant

morally wrong, straying from the right or usual type

errant

mistake, straying from the proper course, wandering

erratic

no fixed course, lacking consistency

erroneous

mistake or incorrect

accede

give approval or consent to a demand or request

antecedent

a preceding event, state, or cause one's ancestors/parent

concession

yielding of a point, privelage unwilling acknowledgement/admission

precedent

an example used in subsequent circumstances and used as a guide later

Hades

a dark, inescapable state, underground home of the dead

lethargic

sluggish, apathetic, indifferent

Auditor

A person authorized to examine financial accounts or a student who attends a course to listen

Auditory

Perceived or experienced through hearing

Audition

A trial to evaluate a performer’s skill

Inaudible

Unable to be heard

Dissonant

Clashing or discordant music

Resonance

Quality of deep, echoing, continued sound

Sonic

Speed of sound

Ultrasound

Sound waves with higher frequencies than able to be heard to make images to diagnose internal medical conditions

Croesus

A very rich man

Dragon’s teeth

Seeds of conflict - create conditions for future conflict

complement

a counterpart that completes or fills up to perfection

deplete

use up supply or resources

implement

to take steps to fulfill or practice

replete

full or abundantly filled or supplied

metric

related or based on the metric system

odometer

an instrument for measuring the distance traveled

symmetrical

having balanced proportions, corresponding in size or shape

tachometer

instrument that measures the speed of rotation

martial

having to do with war and military - mars god of war

curriculum vitae

resume, a brief account of a person's education, qualifications, and experiences

Abrogate

To abolish or annual, ignore or treat as nonexistent

Arrogate

Take or claim something without justification

Derogatory

showing low or poor opinion of something or someone

Prerogative

A right or privilege that sets one part from another

Inquisition

A period of harsh or severe investigation

Perquiste

A special perk or privilege in addition to a base salary or an exclusive right

Acquisitive

Excessively interested in acquiring money, greedy

Requisition

An official demand made with proper authority for materials or supplies

Caveat emptor

The principle that the buyer’s responsible for checking goods before purchase

Corpus Delicti

Body of the crime, substantial fact of a crime, material substance

Eugenic

Improving the desirable traits through controlled breeding

Euphemism

The use of an agreeable word in substitute for a harsh, disgusted expression

Euphoria

State of well-being, great elation

Evangelism

The preaching of the Christian gospel

Dysfunctional

Impaired or abnormal operation

Dyslexia

Interference with reading, writing, and spelling

Dyspeptic

Having indigestion or an irritable temperament

Dystrophy

A hereditary disorder where muscle or nerves waste away

Bona fide

genuine, authentic, made in good faith

Carpe diem

Urge someone to enjoy the present without worrying about the future

Orthodontics

A branch of dentistry that treats irregularities and crooked teeth

Orthodox

Holding established beliefs, especially in religion

Orthopedics

A branch of medicine, dealing with the correction or prevention in deformities of bones and muscles

Orthography

The conventional spelling in words according to standard language or language concerned with letters and spelling

Rectitude

Moral uprightness or integrity; the correctness of procedure

Rectify

To set right

Rectilinear

Moving in a straight line or having straight lines

Rector

Member of the clergy that is in charge of the church or head of university

A posteriori

Reason based on facts or experiences/ personal observations

a priori

Reason from deduction rather than an experience; self evident propositions

Protagonist

Main character in a literary work

Protocol

Original copy or record of a document, or a code of rules and behaviors

Protoplasm

Substance that makes up the living parts of the cell

Prototype

A first, full scale, working version of an original model

Antechamber

A small outer waiting room to enter the main one

Antedate

Precede in time, to date smth with an earlier date

Ante meridian

Before noon

Anterior

Situated towards the front, coming before in time of a development

Augean stable

A place marked by a great accumulation of filth

A fortiori

From the stronger argument, drawing the more obvious conclusion

Deflect

To turn aside

Flexor

A muscle or part of the body that serves to flex or bend

Genuflect

To kneel on one knee, then rise out of respect

Inflection

Modulation of the voice pitch tone or loudness

Posterior

Situated toward the rear or back

Posthumous

Published after the death of an author

Postmodern

Movement that reacts against modernism

Postmortem

Occurring after death or a following event

Procrustean

Cruelly enforcing conformity or making things the same without regard to individualism

Protean

Displaying great versatility or variety, taking on many different forms

Affidavit

A sworn written statement

Diffident

A lack of confidence, timid, cautious, or unassertive

Fiduciary

In involving trust that is holding another or one who holds a trust ($) for another

Perfidy

Untrustworthy, faithlessness, treachery

Concurrent

Happening at the same time

Cursory

Hasty or not thoroughly done

Discursive

Passing from one top to another; logical progression

Precursor

Indicates the coming of another

Palladium

Precious silver, white metal related to platinum used in electrical contact or an alloy with gold to make white gold

Penelope

A modest, domestic wife