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VOCAB 8

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eccentric
kooky, unconventional
debunk
to prove wrong
penurious
stingy; realating to great poverty
squander
to waste
avarice
greed for money
indulgent
lenient; yielding to desire
assiduous
hard working, busy
insuperable
incapable of being over come or solved
assuage
to soothe, relieve
incantation
chant
capitol
the building, dome
capital
place, city
preciptous
head first
decapitate
take head down
CIPIT, CAPIT
head
consitution
everything standing together
stationery
writing paper
stationary
standing, unmoving
desist
stand down
ST(A), SIST, STIT
standing
nondescript
not able to be written down/ ordinary
scribe
person who knew how to write
SCRIB, SCRIPT
to write, draw, make marks
nominal
in name only/ not even woth mentioning
nominate
put name before everyone else
NOMEN, NOMIN
names
trajectory
throwing across the path
ejaculate
expression that you throw out
project
throw forward
JACT, JECT
throw, hurl with force
erroneous
mistaken, full of error
aberrant
straying from the norm
aberration
deviation from the norm
erratic
going all over the place
ERR
to wander/ straying off the path/ mistake
TABOO DEFORMATION
take that which is not spoken, change pronunciation so that you can say it.
(gosh, golly, gee-whiz, Jimini Cricket, heck, dang, darn)
CIRCUMLOCUTION
lengthy way of expressing the simple
(corporate downscaling= fired)
EUPHEMISM
nice, less offensive name
(passed away, with child, powder my nose)
invalid
strength
vale
roman's form of goodbye "be strong"
valor
to be strong
ambivalent
both have woth/ dont care
VAL, VAIL
to be strong, have worth
remit
send it back
demise
death, sent down
manumit
to liberate
manumission
liberating a slave
mission
you are sent
MIt, MISS
to send, to drop, let go
你很呆...也我愛你!
<3
gesticulation
over acting gestures
gesture
way you carry your body
exaggerate
carry something out to another place/build up
gestation
period of carrying a fetus
Belligerent
to wage war
GER, GEST
carry
contradict
going against something that is said
edict
something that is said out
dictate
tell someone else what to do
DIC, DICT
to talk
declamation
delivering someone else's speech
proclaim
shouting forward
CLAM, CLAIM
shout
prodigal
drive forward, squashing, wasteful
exigence
the main point of a speech that demands attention
exigent
demanding attention
exigency
demanding situation; you have to do something
intransigent
stubborn, not doing something
transaction
doing something across the table
agile
able to do
AG, ACT
to do/ drive
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