Vocab List #3

1. Noun: a disparaging abusive word or phrase about a person or thing

1. Adj: tending or intended to evade

1. Verb: to call forth, up, or bring recollection to mind

1. Adj: tryingly or incessantly severe in making demands

2. Adj: requiring careful attention and precision

1. Verb: to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand

1. Verb: to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises

2. Verb: guess, surmise

3. Verb: to involve or point out as a normal outcome of thought

4. Verb: to draw conclusions that is not logically derivable from the assumed premises

1. Adj: worthy of praise

1. Adj: overspread with light

2. Adj: having full use of one's abilities

3. Adj: clear to the understanding

1. Verb: (used with object) to examine in detail with careful or critical attention

2. Verb: (used without object) to conduct an examination or investigation

1. Noun: a meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject, especially a meeting at which several speakers talk on or discuss a topic before an audience

2. Noun: a collection of opinions expressed or articles contributed by several persons on a given subject or topic

3. Noun: an account of a discussion meeting or of the conversation at it

4. Noun: (in ancient Greek and Rome) a convivial meeting, usually following a dinner, for drinking and intellectual conversation

5. (Initial capital letter; italics) a philosophical dialogue (4 century b.c.) by Plato, dealing with ideal love and the vision of absolute beauty

1. Adj: having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich

2. Adj: abundant in anything

3. Adj: flowing freely

4. Noun: a stream that flows into another body of water

5. Noun: a person that is abundant in anything

1. Noun: shortness of time or duration

2. Noun: the quality of expressing much in few words

1. Noun: the suggesting of associated or additional meanings of a word or expression in addition to its literal meaning

2. Noun: something suggested or implied by a word or thing rather than being explicitly named or described

3. Noun: Logic. the set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term and thus determining the range of objects to which that term maybe applied; comprehension; increased in degree

 

1. Verb: to make beautiful with ornamentation

2. Verb: to heighten the attractiveness of by adding decorative or fanciful details

1. Verb: to drink (esp. alcoholic drinks)

2. Verb: Literary. to take in or to compare (ideas, facts, etc.)

3. Verb: to take in as if by drinking

4. Verb: to absorb or cause to absorb liquid or moisture

1. Noun: a longing desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life

1. Adj: experiencing or exhibiting nostalgia, a sentimental or longing yearning for the happiness felt in a former place, time, or situation

1. Noun: a person who is new to the circumstances, work, etc., in which he or she is placed; beginner

2. Noun: a person who has been received into a religious order or congregation for a period of probation before taking vows

3. Noun: a person newly become a church member

4. Noun: a recent convert to Christianity

1. Noun: (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or contentedly confident of one's ability indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes

2. Noun: (initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of ancient Philista

3. Adj: (sometimes initial capital letter) lacking in or hostile to culture

4. Adj: contentedly confident in one's ability commonpalcel or conventionaly

5. Adj: (initial capital letter) of or belonging to the ancient Philistines

1. Verb: (used with object) to say or do again or repeatedly; repeat, often excessively

1. Noun: a periodic payment, especially a scholarship or fellowship allowance granted to a student

2. Noun: fixed or regular pay; salary