Vocabulary Lesson 6

Assiduous

1. Constant in application or effort

2. Persevering, not giving up

Dissident

A person who openly disagrees (dissents)

Sedentary

1. Characterized by or requiring a sitting posture

2. Accustomed to sit a great deal and get little exercise

Supersede

1. To replace in power, authority, acceptance, etc.

2. To set aside, or cause to set aside, as useless, void, or irrelevant

Emancipate

To free from

Manacle

A shackle for the hand, handcuffs

Mandate

A rule, requirement or law “handed” down

Manipulate

1. To manage or influence skillfully, especially in an unfair manner

2. To handle, manage or use especially with skill

Dexterity

A skill or adroitness in using the hands or body, agility

Mental adroitness or skill, cleverness

Ambidextrous

1. Able to use both hands equally well

2. Unusually skillful

Genuflect

1. To bend the knee or touch the knee to the floor in reverence or worship

2. To express a servile (submissive) attitude

Imbibe

To drink, absorb, soak up

Hyperbole

Expression that includes great exaggeration

Synthesize

To form a theory or system by combining ideas

Anaphora

Repetition of a word or a phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Apophasis

A rhetorical device where the speaker raises an issue while claiming not to mention it

Euphemism

The substitution of a mild, socially acceptable expression for one seen as offensive or harsh

as(ad)

to, toward

sid, sed, sede

to sit

dis

apart

super

above

e(x)

out of, from

man(d) / mani

hand

dexter

right (as in right and left)

ambi

both

genu

knee

flect

bend

im

not

bibe

drink