Vocabulary - Quiz 2
gauche - (adjective)
1. lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless
(roots - awkward from French)
incognito - (adjective & adverb)
1. with one's identity disguised or concealed
roots: in -- not, without cogn -- know
recapitulate - (verb)
(recap)
1. to repeat in a shorter form
2. to appear to repeat (the evolutionary stages of the species) during the embryonic development of the individual organism
root: re -- again capit--head ate--cause
plagiarize - (verb)
1. to use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own
2. to appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another)
3. to put forth as original to oneself the ideas or words of another
(from: "plagiarius"--kidnapper - quiz clue)
homogeneous - (adj.)
1. uniform in structure or composition
2. of the same or similar nature or kind
3. consisting of terms of the dame degree or elements of the same dimension
(roots: homo--same genos--kind)
polymer - (noun)
any of numerous natural or synthetic compounds of usually high molecular weight consisting of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple molecule
examples of polymers: polyester, cellulose
(roots: poly - many)
1. lacking grace or social polish; awkward or tactless
(roots - awkward from French)
incognito - (adjective & adverb)
1. with one's identity disguised or concealed
roots: in -- not, without cogn -- know
recapitulate - (verb)
(recap)
1. to repeat in a shorter form
2. to appear to repeat (the evolutionary stages of the species) during the embryonic development of the individual organism
root: re -- again capit--head ate--cause
plagiarize - (verb)
1. to use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own
2. to appropriate for use as one's own passages or ideas from (another)
3. to put forth as original to oneself the ideas or words of another
(from: "plagiarius"--kidnapper - quiz clue)
homogeneous - (adj.)
1. uniform in structure or composition
2. of the same or similar nature or kind
3. consisting of terms of the dame degree or elements of the same dimension
(roots: homo--same genos--kind)
polymer - (noun)
any of numerous natural or synthetic compounds of usually high molecular weight consisting of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple molecule
examples of polymers: polyester, cellulose
(roots: poly - many)