Lecture Vocabulary Review
Flow, Lightness, and Yielding
Mellifluous: Sweetly flowing or sounding.
Levity: Lack of seriousness; jolly or joking manner.
Alleviate: To make less painful or dangerous.
Leaven: To make less heavy or serious.
Cede: To surrender.
Concession: Something given up or yielded.
Affluent: Wealthy and privileged; well-to-do.
Superfluous: Additional to what is necessary; extra.
Movement, Sequence, and Consistency
Relapse: A falling back into an old illness or bad habit.
Elapse: To slip away; go by.
Collapse: Complete failure and ruin.
Recede: To move back or away from.
Regress: to go back to a less mature or less positive state.
Consecutive: following in order.
Digress: to move away from the topic at hand; ramble.
Amble: to casually walk; stroll.
Actions, Orders, and Logic
Execution: the way something is done.
Incur: to bring about.
Recurrent: happening repeatedly.
Preamble: a passage or speech which introduces another, longer passage or speech.
Enjoin: to command; to urge.
Injunction: an order which legally prevents something.
Rejoinder: an answer; reply.
Inconsequential: having no effect or importance.
Perspectives, Bias, and Decision-Making
Impartial: having no bias or favor.
Partisan: believing and acting on the ideas of political party or group.
Inclusive: containing all; not keeping any out.
Inconclusive: providing no clear answer or solution.
Preclude: prevent from happening.
Indecisive: unable to make choices.
Impart: to give away; share.
Precise: accurate; definite.
Transformation, Conflict, and Likeness
Metamorphosis: change in form; transformation.
Metaphorical: symbolic rather than literal.
Incision: a cut made in order to get something inside.
Alienate: To make hostile.
Inalienable: not able to be taken or given away.
Alternate: to go back and forth; change from thing to another.
Altercation: a fight or dispute.
Simulate: to mimic; imitate.
Dissemble: to conceal the truth; to deceive.
Semblance: Rough likeness.