Batch 19 vocabulary: 20 words with meanings
The 20 words in batch 19, each with a plain-English meaning. Tap a word for its picture card, example sentence, synonyms, antonyms and memory tip.
- Attenuate v.to reduce the force, effect, or intensity of something; to weaken
- Auxiliary adj.providing additional help or support; supplementary or held in reserve
- Conspicuous adj.standing out so as to be clearly visible or attracting notice
- Discrepancy n.a difference or lack of agreement between things that should match
- Encryption n.the conversion of information into a code so that only authorized parties can read it
- Endemic adj.regularly found among a particular people or in a particular region; native to one area
- Eschew v.to deliberately avoid or abstain from something
- Indefatigable adj.persisting tirelessly; incapable of being worn out
- Malign v.to speak harmful and untrue things about someone; to slander
- Memento n.an object kept as a reminder of a person, place, or past event
- Portend v.to be a sign or warning that something, usually momentous or bad, is likely to happen
- Preempt v.to act in advance so as to prevent something from happening or to forestall another's action
- Proclamation n.an official public announcement of something important
- Pseudonymous adj.written or published under a false name
- Recurrence n.the fact of happening again, especially repeatedly or periodically
- Seismic adj.enormous in effect or impact, like an earthquake; also relating to earthquakes
- Subsume v.to include or absorb something within a larger category, group, or system
- Surveillance n.close, sustained observation of a person, group, or place, especially to detect activity
- Tangential adj.only slightly connected to the main subject; peripheral or digressive
- Valorize v.to assign high value or importance to something; to praise or celebrate