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