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| acrophobia | n. abnormal fear of high places |
| apathy | n. lack of interest/ n. lack of emotion |
| claustrophobia | n. an abnormal fear of being in an enclosed, narrow, or small place. |
| empathy | n. a sharing and underdstanding of others feelings, situation, or state of mind |
| hydrophobia | n. an abnormal fear of water |
| pathetic | adj. arousing pity or sadness combined with either sympathy or contempt |
| pathology | n. the branch of medicine that deals with nature, cause, and developement of disesase |
| pathos | n. the quality in somethign that evokes a feeling of pity, sadness, or comopassion |
| psychopath | n. a person haaving serious menetal disorder characterized by amoral or antisocial behavior |
| xenophobia | n. fear of hatred of strangers or anything strange or foreign |
| facilitate | v. to make easy or easier |
| foster | v. to help the growth and development of; promote |
| legion | n. a large number |
| nascent | adj. coming into being |
| novice | n. a person who's new to the activity, beginner |
| profound | adj. showing great understanding |
| prosaic | adj. common place; dull |
| relentless | adj. steady and persistant |
| syntax | n. the matter in which words are arranged to form sentences |
| tenet | n. a principal, doctrine, or belief held as truth by a person or a group |
| allegory | n. a story in which characters represent moral principals or ideas |
| allusion | n. a indirct reference made to something |
| connotation | n. a meaning or idea that is associated with a word in addition to its literal meaning |
| idiom | n. a phrase or expression whose meaning is different from the literal meaning of its individual words |
| jargon | n. the specialized vocab. used by those in a particular profession or a way of life |
| metaphor | n. a figure or speech in which one thing is compared to another suggest a similarity |
| parody | n. a humorous ot satirical literary or musical imitation of a serious work |
| patois | n. a regional dialect of a language, especially one other than the standard or literary dialect |
| solecism | n. a error in grammer or standard use of language |
| soliloquy | n. the act of talking to oneself/ lines in a play that a character says aloud to himself or herself |
| ascribe | v. to assign to a particular cause |
| conscript | v. to enroll by law to serve in the armed forces |
| detract | v. to take away value |
| extract | v. to pull out with effort |
| intractable | adj. hard to manage, stubborn |
| nondescript | adj. having no interesting or distinctive qualities |
| postscript | n. a note added to the end of a letter after the writer's signature |
| proscribe | v. to condemn; t o forbid |
| protract | v. to lengthen or draw out |
| scripture | n. a sacred or religous wirting or book |
