Week 4 Flashcards
(16 cards)
ambiguous
- doubtful or uncertain especially from being
obscure or indistinct. 2. Unclear in meaning because of being
understandable in more than one way.
ambient
existing of present on all sides
ambivalent
- holding opposite feelings and attitudes at the
same time toward someone or something. 2. Continually
wavering between opposites or alternate courses of action
amphitheater
- an oval or circular building with an open
area ringed by riding tiers of seats, used in ancient Rome for
contests and spectacles. 2. A large modern theater or
stadium.
ephemeral
- lasting a day only. 2. lasting a very short
time
epiphyte
A plant that obtains its nutrients from the air
and the rain and usually grows on another plant for support.
epithet
- a descriptive word or phrase occurring with or
in place of the name of a person or thing. 2. An insulting or
demeaning word or phrase.
epitaph
An inscription on a grave or tomb in memory of
the one buried there.
the one buried there.
hypocrisy
a pretending to be what one is not or to feel what
one does not really feel.
hypothermia
subnormal temperatures of the body.
hypothetical
- involving an assumption made for the sake of
argument or for further study or investigation. 2. imagined for
purposes of example.
hypochondriac
a person unduly concerned with health and
often suffering from delusions of physical disease
thermal
of, relating to, or caused by heat. 2. designed to insulate in
order to retain body heat.
thermocline
the region in a body of water that divides the warmer,
oxygen-rich surface layer from the colder, oxygen-poor deep water
thermocouple
a device for measuring temperature that makes use
of the way different metals respond to heat.
thermonuclear
of or relating to the changes in the nucleus of atoms
with low atomic weight, such as hydrogen, that require a very high
temperature to begin.
