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REA 0002
Vocabulary Chapters 9 and 10
bolster• You can bolster your grade by
doing some extra credit.
• To support• To hold up • Strengthen or reinforce• Support with a rigid object
depreciate• The value of your car will
depreciate the moment you drive it off the lot.
• To become less valuable• To fall or decrease in value or price• To lower the value of
indiscriminate• I made too many indiscriminate
choices when I went shopping last week.
• Not selective• Not chosen carefully • Not based on careful selection
inquisitive• Inquisitive students do much
better than those who are less curious.
• Questioning• Curious• Eager to learn
nebulous• The student gave me a nebulous
reason about his absence.
• Indefinite• Vague• unclear
relegate• When you had family dinners, did your
parents relegate the younger children to eat in the kitchen.
• To send• To assign to a less important or less
satisfying position, place or condition
replete• The Thanksgiving table was
replete with all my favorite foods.
• Filled• Plentifully supplied• Well filled
sedentary• My job is very sedentary. I do not
get much exercise.
• Involving much sitting• Marked by much sitting• Requiring or taking little exercise
tenet• One tenet of the Christian religion
is to do unto others as you want them to do to you.
• A principle• A belief or principle held to be true
by an individual or group
terse• This is an example of a terse
sentence.
• Short• Brief and clear• Effectively concise
autonomy• We all want autonomy. But we
cannot always do just what we want.
• Freedom from control• Independence• Self-government
bureaucratic• MCC is an example of a
bureaucratic system.
• Over-regulated• Insisting on strict rules and routine
often to the point of hindering effectiveness
mandate• George W. Bush felt he had a
mandate from the people when he won the election.
• An authorization• A group’s expressed wishes• Clear Signal to act• Voter’s wish
ostracize• We did not want to ostracize John
from the class. But, his behavior required it.
• To reject • To expel or exclude from a group
raucous• The class became raucous when
the teacher announced the surprise test.
• Disorderly• Noisy and disorderly• boisterous
recourse• I had no recourse but to sue him
for my injuries.
• A way to get help• A source of help, security or
strength• Something to turn to
reiterate• Let me reiterate. The test will be
on Friday.
• To repeat• To state again or repeatedly
tantamount• Buying coffee at Starbucks is
tantamount to robbery.
• Just like • Equal in effect or value• The same as
tenacious• The hero had a tenacious grasp
on the side of the mountain.
• grasping strongly• Holding firm• Persistent• stubborn
utopia• It might be nice to live in utopia.
• A paradise• An ideal or perfect place or state• A place achieving social or political
perfection
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