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Eng 11 vocab 9
"Advancing" vocab Ch 9
Term | Definition |
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bolster | To hold or to prop up |
depreciate | to decrease in value or price |
indiscriminate | not chosen carefully |
inquisitive | curious |
nebulous | vague -- cloudy |
relegate | to assign a less important or satisfying position, place or situation |
replete | full of, plentiful |
sedentary | no exercise, sitting around |
tenet | fundamental belief or principle |
terse | short, curt, effectively concise. |
suffix --ate | suffix: usually turns a word into a verb (means "to make") |
suffix --ive | suffix: adjective (turns a word into a descriptive word) |
prefix re-- | prefix: means "to do again" (like REpeat) |
prefix in-- | prefix: can mean "not" or "the opposite of" |
suffix --ous | suffix: adjective (turns a word into a descriptive word) |