Week 1: vocabulary
Sacr/
sanct: sacred
1.
Sacred:
devoted or dedicated to a deity or religious purpose
We have a sacred duty
to find out the truth.
2.
Sacrifice:
the offering of some living or inanimate thing to a deity in homage
The runner went to
second base on a sacrifice.
3.
Sanctify:
to make holy
The constitution
sanctified the rights of the people.
4.
Sanction:
authoritative approval
The country acted
without the sanction of the other nations.
5.
Sacrilege:
the violation of anything sacred
They accused him of
committing a sacrilege.
Ver:
truth
6.
Verdict:
any judgment or decision
Do you want my verdict
on the meal?
7.
Veracious:
habitually truthful
He has a reputation
for being veracious, so people generally take his word for things.
8.
Verity:
truthfulness
The local tourist
bureau is less concerned with the verity of the legend than the fact that it
attracts visitors to the area.
9.
Verisimilitude:
the appearance of truth
The novel's degree of
verisimilitude is compromised by 18th-century characters who speak in very
21st-century English.
10.
Aver:
to affirm, to declare to be true
He averred that he was
innocent.
Trans:
across, over, through, beyond
11.
Transport:
to carry
The movie transports
us to a world of stunning beauty.
12.
Transaction:
the act of exchanging money, goods, or services
The entire transaction
took place over the phone.
13.
Transparent:
easily seen through
His meaning in leaving
the conversation is transparent: he doesn't want to talk about his combat experiences.
14.
Transgress:
to violate or cross a law or code
There are legal
consequences for companies that transgress the rules.
15.
Transcendent:
going beyond ordinary limits
The star player's
transcendent performance helped the team to a surprise victory.
Man:
hand
16.
Manual:
operated by hand
Loss of abilities
related to manual dexterity may affect work performance and may threaten or end
essential career options.
17.
Manufacture:
to make by hand or machinery
Cultural products were
manufactured on a mass scale, marketed by advertising, made ever more
accessible by revolutions in technology.
18.
Emancipate:
to free from bondage
They did it to
liberate the people of Iraq, so that 25 million Iraqis would be emancipated
from a sadistic regime, the greatest victory for human rights since the defeat
of the Soviet Union.
19.
Manifest:
easily perceived by the senses
It
saves them from examining the manifest failings in their own actions.
20.
Manuscript:
a document written by hand or typed, rather than printed
The books and
manuscripts were written on vellum, a preparation of calf, goat and sheep
skins.
Circu:
around, on all sides
21.
Circumference:
the outer boundary of a circular area
His last work was on
the cycloid, the curve traced by a point on the circumference of a rolling
circle.
22.
Circumstances:
the conditions surrounding and affecting a situation
In
my view it was an opinion which is justified by the particular circumstances of
the case.
23.
Circuit:
the act of going or moving around
The
circuit was almost finished, and I was second.
24.
Circumambulate:
to walk about or around
We
walked barefoot and circumambulated the outer walls of the temple.
25.
Circuitous:
roundabout, indirect
We
had meandered off on a circuitous journey.
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