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Vocabulary
Read through the following list of words taken from assigned readings. Match the ones you know to their definitions. Do not guess!! If you are not completely familiar with a particular word, look it up in the dictionary. The definition I use is the one that matches the way the word is used in the text. The quiz will have ten definitions and the full bank of 40 words to choose from. There will be four versions of the quiz.
Vocabulary Review 9: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
Words
- abhor
- animism
- artifact
- barren
- brackish
- check
- circa
- cosmopolitan
- crack
- decimate
- desert
- ecclesiastical
- emporium
- entice
- etymology
- exegesis
- gross
- hagiography
- heterogeneous
- homogenous
- imam
- indigenous
- itinerant
- manumission
- matrilineal
- melting pot
- middleman
- minaret
- monopoly
- muezzin
- nexus
- plausible
- prey (v)
- prodigious
- progenitor
- propitiate
- savannah
- steppes
- suffice
- vibrant
VR 9 � Definitions
- a country, place, or area in which immigrants of various nationalities and races are assimilated
- a forefather or ancestor in direct line; source from which something comes
- a high, slender tower attached to a mosque, with one or more projecting balconies from which a muezzin calls the people to prayer
- a trader who buys commodities from the producer and sells them to the retailer or consumer
- about (with a date)
- any object made by human work, esp. a simple or primitive tool, weapon, etc.
- attract by offering hope of reward; tempt
- be enough; be sufficient or adequate
- belief that all natural phenomena have souls independent of their physical being
- book or writing about the lives of saints
- cause to become favorably inclined; appease or conciliate
- cause to stop suddenly; halt abruptly
- common to or representative of all or many parts of t he world; not national or local
- composed of similar or identical elements or parts; uniform
- composed of unlike or unrelated elements or parts; varied; miscellaneous
- connection, tie, or link between individuals of a group
- designating or descent of kinship or derivation through the mother
- dry, barren, sandy region, naturally incapable of supporting almost any life
- excelling in skill or performance; first-rate
- exclusive control of a commodity or service in a given market
- existing, growing, or produced naturally in a region; native to
- explanation, critical analysis, or interpretation of a word, literary passage, etc.
- freeing or being freed from slavery
- glaring; flagrant
- great plains of SE Europe and Asia that have few trees
- in Muslim countries, a crier, as in a minaret, who calls the people to prayer five times a day
- leader of prayer in a Muslim mosque; any of various Muslim leaders and rulers
- make a profit from a victim as by swindling; plunder; rob
- not producing crops or fruit; unproductive
- of great size, power, extent; enormous, huge
- of the church, organization of the church, or clergy
- origin and development of a word or phrase
- originally, to select by lot and kill every tenth one of; now, to destroy or kill a large part of
- place of commerce; trading center; marketplace
- seemingly true, but often implying disbelief
- shrink from in disgust; detest
- somewhat salty; having an unpleasant taste
- throbbing with life and activity
- traveling from place to place
- treeless plain or grassland with scattered trees, esp. in tropical or sub-tropical region having seasonal rains
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