ELA VOCAB 4/19/23

congratulate

express one's pleasure to another person at that person's success

gracious

pleasant; courteous; kindly

grateful

feeling or expressing gratitude; thankful; obliged

gratify

give or be a source of pleasure or satisfaction

gratis

without charge or payment; free

gratitiude

thankfulness

gratuitous

1. given freely

ingrate

ungrateful ("not thankful") person

ingratiate

establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of another

immortal

1. not subject to death

immortality

1. eternal life

moribund

dying; near death

mortal

1. destined to die

mortician

undertaker

mortification

shame; humiliation; embarrassment

mortify

embarrass; shame; humiliate

mortuary

funeral home

rigor mortis

stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death

corporal

bodily, as corporal punishment

corporation

body authorized by law to act as a single person and to have rights and duties

corps

1. organized body of persons

corpse

dead body

corpulent

bulky; obese; very fat

corpus

general collection or body of writings, laws, etc.

corpuscle

1. blood cell ("little body")

corpus delicti

1. facts proving that a crime has been committed

esprit de corps

spirit of a body of persons; group spirit

habeas corpus

1. writ (order) requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that person's detention

incorporate

combine so as to form one body

aqueduct

artificial channel for conducting water over a distance

conductive

tending to cause or bring about

conduct

lead; guide; escort

deduction

1. taking away; subtraction

duct

tube or channel for conducting a liquid, air, etc.

ductile

1. able to be drawn out or hammered thin

induce

lead on; move by persuasion

induct

admit ("lead in") as a member; initiate

induction

1. ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation

seduction

enticement; leading astray into wrongdoing

traduce

slander

vladuct

bridge for conducting a road or a railroad over a valey, river, etc.

consecutive

following in regular order; successive

consequence

1. that which follows logically; result

execute

1. follow through to completion; carry out

inconsequential

of no consequence; trivial; unimportant

non sequitur

statement that does not follow from previous statements

persecute

oppress; harass; annoy

prosecute

1. follow to the end or until finished

sequel

something that follows; continuation; consequence; outcome

sequence

the following of one thing after another

sequential

arranged in a sequence; serial

concur

1. agree; be of the same opinion

concurrent

running together; occurring at the same time; simultaneous

current

now in progress; prevailing; flow

curriculum

course of study in a school or college

cursive

running or flowing (said of handwriting in which the letters are joined)

cursory

running over hastily; superficially done

discursive

wandering from one topic to another

excursion

going ("running") out or forth; expedition

incur

1. meet with ("run into") something undesirable

incursion

1. rushing into

precursor

forerunner; predecessor

recur

happen again

aggressive

disposed to attack (literally, "step toward"); militant; assertive; pushing

egress

means of going out; exit

gradation

change by steps or stages

grade

step; division

gradient

1.) rate at which a road, railroad track, temperature, voltage, etc. rises or falls

gradual

step-by-step; proceeding by small stages or degrees

graduate

complete all the steps of a course and receive a diploma or degree

graduated

arranged in regular steps, stages, or degrees

progressive

going forward to something considered better

regressive

disposed to move ("step") backward; retrogressive

retrograde

1. going backward

retrogression

act of going from a better to a worse state; deterioration

transgress

to go beyond a limit or boundary

biped

two-footed animal

centipede

(literally, "hundred-legged" creature); wormlike animal with one pair of legs on most of its segments

expidite

1. facilitate

impede

hinder; obstruct

impediment

1. hindrance; obstacle

2. defect

millipede

(literally, "thousand-legged" creature); wormlike animal with two pairs of legs on most of its segments

pedal

a lever that is moved with one's foot

pedestal

1. support or foot of a column or statue

pedestrian

a person who walks across the street on foot

velocipede

1. child's tricycle

contact

touching or meeting; association; connection

contiguous

touching

contigent

1. dependent on something else

intact

untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole

intangible

1. not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch

tact

sensitive mental perception of what is appropriate on a given occasion

tactful

having or showing tact

tactile

1. pertaining to the sense of touch

tangent

touching at only one point

tangential

merely touching or slightly connected; only superficially relevant

apprehend

1. seize or take into custody

apprehensive

1. quick to understand or grasp

comprehensible

able to be grasped mentally; understandable