week 1 vocab

culpable

(adj) deserving blame

inculpate

(v) accuse or blame

exculpate

(v) to free from blame

mea culpa

(n) my fault

edict

(n) an order issued by someone in authority

interdiction

(n) a prohibition; the act of forbidding

Jurisdiction

(n.) the official power to make legal decisions and judgments.

malediction

(n) a curse; a wish of evil upon another

cognitive

(adj) how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information

diagnosis

(n) Identification of an injury or disease

prognosis

(n) a forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease or situation

incognito

(adj., adv.) in a disguised state, under an assumed name or identity; (n.) the state of being disguised; a person in disguise

apiary

(n) place where bees are kept

lycanthropy

(n) a condition in which people believed themselves to be possessed by wolves and imitated their behavior

ornithologist

(n) scientist who studies birds