Semester 1 Final

• annotation


  A note added for explanation or commentary.
• appellation

  A name or title by which something is known.
• eponym


  A person after whom a discovery is named.
• linguistics


  The scientific study of language and its structure.
• malapropism

  Misuse of a word by confusion with a similar sound.
• neologism

  A newly coined word or expression.
• parlance

  A particular way of speaking or using words.
• patois


  A regional dialect, especially a nonstandard one.
• polyglot


  A person fluent in multiple languages.
• vulgar


  Lacking sophistication or good taste; crude.
• contingent

  Dependent on certain conditions or events.
• eventuality

  A possible event or outcome.
• implausible

  Not seeming reasonable or probable.
• inconceivable

  Not capable of being imagined or grasped.
• in vain


  Without success or a result.
• perchance


  By some chance; perhaps.
• preposterous


  Contrary to reason or common sense.
• proclivity


  A tendency to choose or do something regularly.
• prone


  Likely to suffer from or experience something.
• theoretical


  Based on theory rather than practical application.
• evolve


  To develop gradually, especially from a simple to a more complex form.
• immutable


  Unchanging over time or unable to be changed.
• inveterate


  Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established.
• malleable


  Easily influenced; pliable.
• metamorphosis


  A change of the form or nature of a thing.
• modulate


  To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
• protean


  Able to change frequently or easily.
• sporadic


  Occurring at irregular intervals or only in a few places.
• transmute


  To change in form, nature, or substance.
• volatile


  Liable to change rapidly and unpredictably.
• abstruse


  Difficult to understand; obscure.
• acumen


  The ability to make good judgments and quick decisions.
• ascertain


  To find out or learn with certainty.
• cerebral


  Related to the brain or intellect.
• faculty


  An inherent mental or physical power.
• obfuscate


  To deliberately make something unclear or difficult to understand.
• ruminate


  To think deeply about something.
• stymie


  To prevent or hinder the progress of.
• surmise


  To suppose that something is true without evidence.
• tenet


  A principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion.