Vocab 13-14 2
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- Aisthanesthai
- to percieve
- aesthete (n)
- who cultivates a superior apperciation of beauty, excessive, impractical
- aesthetic (adj)
- relating to appreciation of beauty
- Beo
- to make blessed
- beatific (adj)
- demonstrating extreme joy or blessedness
- beatitude (n)
-
supreme blessedness;exalted happiness
series of declartion of blessedness by Jesus - Bene
- well
- benign (adj)
-
kindly; mild and gentle effect
not a cancerous tumor - benignant (adj)
- benefical, kindly; especially to inferiors
- Benison (n)
- a blessing or benediction
- Bonus
- good
- bona fide (adj)
- genuine
- Bonanza (n)
- rich mass of ore
- bon vivant (n)
- person who enjoys good food, wine, lives a luxurious life
- boon (adj)
-
jolly
a benefit greatly enjoyed - debonair (adj)
- suave, urbane
- Eu
- good
- eugenics
- study of improving a specie through genetics control
- euphemism (n)
- use of mild words instead of ones that might offend
- euphony (n)
-
pleasant sounds; especially form a spoken language
lullabies -
male
malus - bad
- maladroit (adj)
-
clumsy w/hands
tactless (socially clumsy) - malaise (n)
- vague feeling of ill health; depression
- malapropism (n)
- misuse of a word (unintentional) w/comic effect
- Malefactor (n)
- evildoer; person who commits a crime
- malevolent (adj)
- wishing harm to someone; malicious
- malign (n,adj)
-
n:speak harmful lies abt someone/to traduce
adj: an evil disposition, intending harm - malefeasance (n)
- misconduct especially by authority
- malinger (v)
- to pretend to be sick to escape resonsablities
- mendum
- fault; defect
- mendacious (adj)
- lying
- mendicant (n)
- begger
- emendation (n)
- alteration or improvement of writing to remove errors
- peccatum
-
sin
offense
crime - peccadillo (n)
- small sin or fault
- impeccable (adj)
- flawless
- licentia
- freedom
- licentious
- lacking moral discipline; especially in sexual matters
- illicit (adj)
- illegal