Monday, February 22, 2010

Vocab words 2

1. accord- harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters “In a perfect world, the views of the Republican and Democratic party, would live in perfect accord”

2. bias- influence in an unfair way “The judges ruling in the case turned out to have extreme bias”

3. incognito- without revealing one's identity “The man acting as a waiter on table 9, was actually a spy from the government in complete incognito”

4. deduct- make a subtraction “The cruel cop, wrote him a ticket that would deduct 200 dollars from his already feeble bank account”

5. paradigm- systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word “The word aardvark had an odd Paradigm to her”

6. plagiarize- take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech “ The crowd later found out that the governors speech was completely plagiarized from a speech by Socrates”

7. objectivity- judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices “ The mans statement about the crook seemed to have a sense of objectivity to it”

8. precipitous- done with very great haste and without due deliberation “The teacher could tell that that paper was written very precipitously, and without care, and assumed he had written it the night before”

9. recapitulate- summarize briefly “The Greek speaker recapitulated the battle to the king”

10. reciprocate- act, feel, or give mutually or in return “ John reciprocated the offer, stating htat it was just too much for him to accept

11. empathy- understanding and entering into another's feelings “ Jimi felt some empathy for the aspiring musician, wishing him the best, and giving him advice”

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