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| capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership, private decisions, and open competition in a free market |
| capitulate | To surrender or stop resisting; give up |
| decapitate | to cut of the head or behead; to destroy or make useless |
| recapitulate | to repeat or summarize the most important points or stages |
| anthropoid | any of several large tailless apes |
| anthropology | the science and study of human beings |
| misanthropic | Hating or distrusting humans |
| philanthoropy | Effort to promote human welfare; an act or gift aimed at helping others |
| incumbent | imposed as a duty; holding a specific office or position |
| incubate | to sit on eggs or other materials to keep them warm artificially so that they will hatch or develop or react; to develop an idea |
| recumbent | leaning, resting, or lying down as if resting |
| succumb | To give in to greater strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire; to die |
| dynamic | relating to a physical force or energy; continuously and productively active and changing; energetic or forceful |
| dynamo | a power generator; a forceful, energetic person |
| dynasty | a line of rulers from the same family; a group, family, or team that keeps its powerful position for a long time |
| hydrodynamic | having to do with the science that studies fluids in motion and the forces that act on bodies surrounded by the fluids |
| degrade | to lower in status or level; to bring into disrepute or corrupt morally or intellectually |
| gradation | a series made up of successive stages; a step in an ordered scale |
| graduate | to separate into degrees, grades, classes, or intervals; to receive an academic degree or diploma; to pass from one stage to another |
| retrograde | moving or performed in a direction that is backward or opposite to the usual direction; moving toward a worse or earlier state |
| collate | to assemble pages in the proper order; to cllect, compare, and arrange data |
| prelate | a member of the church with a high rank |
| relativity | a theory that says that mass and energy are equivalent and that a moving object will experience changes in mass, size, and time which are related to its speed |
| correlate | to connect in a sysstemic way; establish the mutual relations of |
| criterion | a standard by which a judgment or decision is made |
| hypercritical | overly critical |
| critique | a judgment or evaluation, especially a rating or discussion or merits and faults; to review or criticize |
| hematocrit | an instrument for measuring the relative amounts of plasma and corpuscles in blood; the ratio of red blood cells to whole blood cells as determined by a hematocrit |
| adjure | to give up or reject by oath; to abstain or hold back from |
| perjury | the voluntary breaking of an oath to tell the truth; false swearing |
| jurisprudence | a system of law or the functining fo tht system;the philosophy behind a body of law |
| objurgate | to scold harshly |
| pentathlon | an athletic contest in which each athlete competes in five different events |
| Pentateuch | the first 5 books of the Old Testament, traditionally said to have been written by Moses |
| pentameter | aline of poetry consisting of 5 metrical feet |
| pentagram | a five-pointed star usually made by connecting alternate points with a straight line and sometimes in magic or occult practices |
| quincentennial | a 500th anniversary or the celebration of such an event |
| quintessential | representing the essence or the perfect or typical example of something |
| quintet | a musical piece for five instruments or voices; a group of five, such as the performers of a quintet or a basketball team |
| quintile | one or another of the values that divide a tested population into five evenly distributed classes; one of thoe classes |
