Unit 1 Flashcards

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PHOT/PHOS

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“light”

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Phototropic

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Tending to grow or move toward light

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Phosphorescent

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Giving off light without heat

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Photogenic

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Attractive in pictures or photographs

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LUC

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“light”

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Lucid

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Easy to understand; clear

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Elucidate

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To make clear by understanding

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Translucent

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Allowing light to pass through

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SPEC/SPECT

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“to look at”

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Prospect

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That which is expected

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Specter

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A ghost or phantom

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VID/VIS

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” to see, to look at”

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Invidious

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Hateful or spiteful

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Providential

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Happening by good fortune

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Improvise

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to create without forethought or preperation

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Enunciate

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to pronounce or articulate

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Renounce

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to reject by deceleration

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Pronouncement

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A declaration of opinion ; judgement

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NUNC/NOUNC

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to announce

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VOK/VOC

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to call

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Invoke

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to call on for support

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provocative

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causing disturbance or excitement

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revoke

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to make invalid;deactivate

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FA

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to speak

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Infantile
Childish;immature
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Affable
easy to converse with; friendly
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DIC/DICT
to say, to tell
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Edict
an official order
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Indict
to charge with crime; accuse
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dictum
a formal or authoritative statement
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HIB/HAB
to have to hold
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prohibit
to stop one from doing something; prevent
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Inhibit
to get in the way; hinder
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FUS/FOUND
to pour out
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Suffuse
to fill up within; to spread throughout
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Confound
to confuse and frustrate
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infuse
to inject; to fill something or someone with
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TEN/TAIN/TIN
to hold
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sustain
to support for an extended period of time
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abstain
to not do something; refrain
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tenacious
stubbornly persistent; determined
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retinue
a group that attends an important person
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PLE
to fill
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Replete
filled up with
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Implement
to put into action; execute
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Deplete
to use up;waste
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misinformation
untrue or wrong information
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formative
occurring at the time with most influence
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reform
to bring back to rightness, order, mortality
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Inept
Unskilled;clumsy
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FORM
to form to establish
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APT/EPT
to fit
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adept
skilled;expert at
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Apptitude
skilled or suitable for
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POS/PON
to put in place
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posit
to put forth; assert
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Dispotision
attitude or mood
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Impose
to forcibly place upon
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FIG
to shape
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Figment
something invented or imaginary
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prefigure
to look like or predict a later thing or event
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Effigy
a figure constructed of mockery
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BELL
war
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Bellicose
warlike in nature
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Antebellum
occurring before a war
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Belligerence
Warlike mood or attitude
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AM
love
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Enamored
Fond of, feeling love towards
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Amiable
Good-natured;cheerful
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Amicable
Not bitter or hostile; friendly
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AGON
contest, struggle
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Antagonize
to act hostile towards; provoke
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protagonist
The central character in a work of literature
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Antagonist
One who is hostile towards; one who opposes
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PHIL
love
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Philosophical
calm and wise; reasonable
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philanthropy
charitable donation to public causes
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Bibliophile
one who loves books
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PED
food
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Expedient
practical; prudent
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Impediment
Something that gets in the way, obstacle
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Pedestrian
lacking excitement; ordinary and dull
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PED - 2
child
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pedant
one possessing abundant knowledge of minor, often uninteresting, things
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pedagogue
a teacher, especially one who is dull and narrow minded
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VEST
clothing
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travesty
a bad imitation of; a preservation of
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vested
significance to one's own profit or well-being
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Vestment
Clothing worn to symbolize religious or political authority
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Divest
To strip or remove a title or potion of authority
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CORPOR/CORPU
body
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Corporeal
having to do with the body
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Corpulent
Extremley fat; obease
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incorporate
to bring together features, ideas, or elements