Lesson 50   -   edHelper.com
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Word List
surmount
surpass
susceptible
sustain
swindle
symptom
synchronize
synthesis
systematic
tangible
tawdry
tedious
temperate
tempered
temporal
tenacious
tenet
tentative
tenure
terminology
terrestrial
therapeutic
thesis
threadbare
thrive
 
 


Matching

Match each definition with a word.

      terrestrial 1. of or pertaining to land as distinct from water; tellurian; worldly; uncelestial
___________________________ 2. highly retentive; sturdy; stout
___________________________ 3. admitting or capable of some specified treatment; liable; subject; sensitive
___________________________ 4. (of finery, trappings, etc.) gaudy; showy and cheap; meretricious; brazen
___________________________ 5. the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature; jargon; language
___________________________ 6. any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and serving as evidence of it; sign; index; mark
___________________________ 7. moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc; modest
___________________________ 8. to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and cross over; conquer; hurdle
___________________________ 9. involving or based on a method or plan; not random or chaotic; orderly; methodic
___________________________ 10. any belief, opinion, doctrine, or the like, that a person or esp. an organization holds as being true; dogma
___________________________ 11. Music. tuned in accordance with some other temperament than just or pure temperament, esp. tuned in equal temperament; dyspeptic; rusty; hot-tempered
___________________________ 12. shabby, as a garment or a person's appearance or manner of living; tagrag; down-at-heel; seedy
___________________________ 13. of or pertaining to time; banausic; materialistic; worldly
___________________________ 14. real or actual, rather than imaginary or visionary; tactile; palpable
___________________________ 15. to obtain by fraud or deceit; cozen; do; beat
___________________________ 16. of, pertaining to, or capable of healing; curative.
___________________________ 17. to keep in existence; maintain
___________________________ 18. to cause to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another
___________________________ 19. long and boring; dull; wearisome; boresome
___________________________ 20. not yet fully developed or definitely decided; provisional; provisory; conditional
___________________________ 21. the combining of discrete elements into a unified compound or entity, or the unified whole formed by such a combining. (Cf. analysis.)
___________________________ 22. the fact, right, or condition of holding or possessing something, such as property or a position; grip; grasp
___________________________ 23. to go beyond in excellence or achievement; be superior to; excel; top; transcend
___________________________ 24. to prosper; be fortunate or successful; boom; flourish
___________________________ 25. a subject for a composition or essay; contention