Lesson 6
Terms
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- Presentiment
- 1/A feeling that something is about to occur.
- Precursor
- 1. A person or thing that comes before and indicates the approach of another; a forerunner.
- Brackish
- 1. Made up of a mixture of fresh water and seawater;salty water. 2. Having an unpleasant taste.
- Cognitive
- 1. Relating to mental processes such as awareness, remembering, and reasoning.
- Inebriated
- 1. Deprived of good sense and judgment, especially as the result of imbibing alcohol.
- Actuate
- 1. To cause to put into mechaniccal motion. 2. To cause to take action.
- Genealogy
- 1. the history of a family and how its members are related to one another; also the study of such family histories.
- Dissertation
- 1.A lengthy, usually written discussion of a topic, often for a college or university degree.
- Fecund
- 1. Producing or capable of producing many offspring. 2. Intellectually or artistically productive; creative.
- Torpor
- 1. A state of mental or physical sluggishness or inactivity.
- Endemic
- 1. Widespread or peculiar to a certain place or among a certain people.
- Ramificaction
- 1. An outgrowth of a simple idea or plan; a resulting development or consequence.
- Interloper
- 1. One who intrudes on or interferes in the affairs of others.
- Insidious
- 1. Seemingly harmless while actually being dangerous; treacherous or deceptive. 2. Spreading harmfully in a subtle or gradual way.
- Dolorous
- 1. Causing or marked by pain, misery, or sorrow.