2017 Vocabulary #20 – Period 5
/1. rectitude / / [rek-ti-tood, -tyood]
–noun
1. rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue: the rectitude of her motives.
2. correctness: rectitude of judgment. /
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Origin: 1400–50; late ME < MF < LL /
2. feign [feyn]
–verb (used with object)
1. to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of: to feign sickness.
2. to invent fictitiously or deceptively, as a story or an excuse.
3. to imitate deceptively: to feign another's voice.
4. to make believe; pretend: She's only feigning, she isn't really ill.
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Origin: 1250–1300; ME
3. hamlet ham-lit]
noun
1. a small village.
Origin: 1300–50; Middle English
4. cadre kad-ree, kah-drey]
noun
1. Military. the key group of officers and enlisted personnel necessary to establish and train a new military unit.
2. a group of trained or otherwise qualified personnel capable of forming, training, or leading an expanded organization, as a religious or political faction, or a skilled work force:
They hoped to form a cadre of veteran party members.
Origin: 1905-10; < French:
5. coy koi]pell
adjective,
1. artfully or affectedly shy or reserved; slyly hesitant; coquettish.
2. shy; modest.
3. showing reluctance, especially when insincere or affected, to reveal one's plans or opinions, make a commitment, or take a stand: The mayor was coy about his future political aspirations.
Origin: 1300-50; Middle English < Anglo-French
6. happenstance hap-uhn-stans]
noun
achancehappeningorevent.
Origin: 1895-1900
7. eviscerate/ / [ ih-vis-uh-reyt]
–verb
1. to remove the entrails from; disembowel: to eviscerate a chicken.
2. to deprive of vital or essential parts: The censors eviscerated the book to make it inoffensive to the leaders of the party.
Origin: 1600–10; < L
8. rout/ rout]
noun
1. a defeat attended with disorderly flight; dispersal of a defeated force in complete disorder: to put an army to rout; to put reason to rout.
2. any overwhelming defeat:a rout of the home team by the state champions.
Origin: 1200-50; Middle English /
9. intransitive [in-tran-si-tiv]
–adjective
Designating a verb or verb construction that does not require or cannot take a direct object,
Origin:
1605–15; < L
10. platitude [plat-i-tood, -tyood]
noun
a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
Origin: 1805–15; < French: