Vocabulary B lessons 3 + 4

Excerpt (noun, verb)

a section or piece of a text, film, or song:

Exhilarate (verb)

To cheer; to stimulate; to liven

Exonerate (verb)

1. To free from blame

2. To relieve of a task

Exorbitant (adjective)

Excessive

Compound (verb, adjective, noun)

1. To mix togther; to combine two or more parts or elements

2. Having two or more parts or elements

3. A combination of elements, parts, or substances

Exposition (noun)

1. A precise statement or explanation

2. A public exhibit or show

Expound (verb)

To set forth on an explanation or view of something in detail (usually used with on)

Impose (verb)

1. To set up, or to force something (or oneself) on others

2. To take unfair advantage of someone

Imposter (noun)

One who deceives by using a false identity

Proponent (noun)

One who argues in support of something

Extraneous (adjective)

1. Coming from outside; foreign

2. Not essential or vital

Extraterrestrial (adjective)

Outside or originating outside the limits of the areth’s atmosphere

Extrovert (noun)

A person chiefly interested in things outside the self, directing thoughts outward rasther than inward

Mediate (verb)

To act as negotiator between opposing sides in a dispute

Mediocrity (noun)

The condition of being commonplace or ordinary, somewhere in the middle between high and low; a very ordinary person

Medium (noun)

1. A substance or element through which something is transmitted

2. A person thought to have communication with spirits of the dead

Non sequitur (noun)

A statement that does not follow logically from evidence

Obsequious (adjective)

Excessively willing to yield to others

Subsequent (adjective)

Coming after or later

Sequester (verb)

1. To go into hiding; to seek solitude

2. To isolate

EX

from, out of

PONO, PONERE, POSUI, POSITUM

to place, to put

EXTRA

on the outside

MEDIUS

middle

SEQUOR, SEQUI, SECTUM

to follow