Vocab 11

congratulate

express ones pleasure to another persons 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

gratitude

thankfulness

gratuitous

given freely

unwarranted

gratuity

present of money in return for favor or service; tip

ingrate

ungrateful person

ingratiate

establish in the favor or good graces of another

immortal

not subject to death

not subject to oblivion; imperishable

immortality

eternal for life

lasting fame

moribund

dying; near death

mortal

destined to die

human

causing death; fatal

mortal

person

mortality

death rate

mortal nature

mortician

undertaker

mortification

shame; humiliation; embarassment

mortify

embarrass; shame; humiliate

mortuary

funeral home

rigor mortis

stiffness of the body that sets in several hours after death

corporal

bodily

corporation

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

corps

organized body of persons

branch of the military

corpse

dead body

corpulent

bulky; obese, very fat

corpus

general collection or body of writing, laws

corpuscle

blood cell

minute particle

corpus delicti

facts proving that a crime that has been commited

body of the victim in a murder case

esprit de corps

spirit of a body of persons; group spirit

habeas corpus

writ requiring a detained person to be brought before a court to investigate the legality of that persons detention

right of a citizen to secure court protection against illegal imprisonment

incorporate

combine so as to from one body

aqueduct

artificial channel for conducting water over a distance

conducive

tending to lead to; contributive; helpful

conduct

lead; guide; escort

deduction

taking away

reasoning from the general to the particular

duct

tube or channel for conducting a liquid; air

ductile

able to drawn out or hammered thin

easily led; docile

induce

lead on; move by persuasion

induct

admit as a leader; initiate

induction

ceremony by which one is made a member; initiation

traduce

malign; slander; vilify; calumniate

viaduct

bridge for conducting a road or railroad over a valley; river

consecutive

following in regular order; successive

consequence

that which follows logically; result

importance

execute

follow through to completion; carry out

put to death

inconsequential

of no consequence; trivial; unimportant

non sequitur

statement that doesn’t follow from previous statement

persecute

follow to the end or until finished

conduct legal proceedings against; sue

sequel

something that follows; continuation; consequence; outcome the following of one thing after another; orderly; series

sequential

arranged in a sequence; serial

concur

agree; be of the same opinion

happen together; coincide

concurrent

running together; occuring at the same time; simultaneous

current

now in progress

flow

curriculum

course of study in a school or college

cursive

running or flowing

cursory

running over hastily; superficially done

discursive

wandering from one topic to another; rambling; digressive

excursion

going out or forth; expedition

incur

meet with something undesirable

bring upon oneself

incursion

rushing into

hostile invasion; raid

precursor

forerunner; predecessor

recur

happen again

aggressive

disposed to attack; militant; assertive; pushing

egress

means of going out; exit

gradation

change by steps or stages

act of grading

grade

step; stage; degree; rating

gradient

rate at which a road; railroad track; tempertaure; voltage, rises or falls

slope; inclination

gradual

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

graduate

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

graduated

arranged in regular steps, stages, or degree

progressive

going forward to something considered better

regressive

disposed to move backward

retrograde

going backward

getting worse

retrogression

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

transgress

step beyond the limits or barriers; go beyond; break a law; violate

biped

two-footed animal

centipede

wormlike animal with one pair of legs on most of its segments

expedite

facilitate

accelerate or speed up

impede

hinder; obstruct; block

impediment

hindrance; obstacle

defect

millipede

wormlike animal with two pairs of legs on most of its segments

pedel

lever acted on by the foot

pedestal

support or foot of a column or statue

foundation

pedestrian

person traveling by foot

pedestrian

commonplace; unimaginative; dull

velocipede

childs tricycle

early form of bicycle

contact

touching or meeting; association; connection

contiguous

touching; in physical contact; adjoining

contingent

dependant on something else

accidental

intact

untouched or uninjured; kept or left whole

intangible

not capable of being perceived by the sense of touch

hard to grasp or define exactly

tact

sensitive mental perception of what is appropriate on a given occasion

tactful

having or showing tact; diplomatic

tactile

pertaining to the sense of touch

tangible

tangent

touching at one point

tangent

line or surface meeting a curved line or surface at one point, but not intersecting it

tangential

merely touching; slightly connected; disgressive

apprehend

seize or take into custody

understand

apprehensive

quick to understand or grasp

fearful of what may come; anxious