VOCAB 5.2 (Vocabulary for the highschool student chapter 5 part 2)

hand

release from bondage; free; liberate

handcuff

1. authorization to act

2. command; order; injunction

1. operate with hands; handle or manage skillfully

2. manage unethically to serve a fraudulent purpose

1. small, helpful book carried by hand; handbook

2. relating to or done with the hands

document written by hand or typewritten

hang

attach; add as a supplement

matter added to the end of a book or document

threatening to occur soon; imminent

hanging ornament

1. waiting to be settled; not yet decided

2. until (preposition)

1. hang by attaching to something

2. stop temporarily; hold up; make inoperative

condition of being left hanging or in doubt; mental uncertainty; anxiety; apprehension

put

1. put out of office; dethrone

2. state under oath; testify; swear

put on as a burden, duty, tax, etc.; inflict

put off; defer; delay

put on top of or over; attach as an addition

change the relative order of; interchange

write

enroll into military service by compulsion; draft

something inscribed on a monument, coin

condemn as harmful or illegal; prohibit; forbid

1. order; dictate; direct

2. order as a remedy

person who writes; author; journalist

1. written text of a play, speech, etc.

2. handwriting; penmanship

one who writes his or her name at the end of a document, thereby indicating approval; one who regularly receives a magazine, newspaper, etc.

similar, like, same

1. make similar or alike

2. take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb

opposite of similar, unlike, different

likeness; resemblance

comparison of two different things using "like" or "as"

give the appearance of; feign; imitate

existing or happening at the same time; contemporary; concurrent

alone, lonely, single

1. left alone; deserted; forlorn; abandoned

2. Lay waste; ravage; devastate

one and only; single; lone

speech made to oneself when alone

opposite of accompanied; being or living alone; without companions

condition of being alone; loneliness; seclusion

musical composition or anything performed by a single person

loosen

1. completely free (“loosened”} of constitutional or other restraint; autocratic; despotic

2. utter; outright; unquestionable

1. break up; disintegrate; disband

2. cause to disappear; end

solving; solution; answer

break; solve; explain; unravel

1. capable of being dissolved or liquified

2. solvable

(noun) substance (usually liquid) able to dissolve another substance, know as the solute

(adj.) able to pay all of one's debts

wave, flow

1. be well supplied; teem

2. be plentiful; be present in great quantity

more than sufficient; plentiful

flood; overflow; deluge; overwhelm

exceeding what is necessary; superfluous; surplus; opposite of concise

flow back as a result; contribute

true, truth

state to be true; affirm confidently; assert; depose; opposite of deny

truthfulness

decision of a jury; opinion; judgment

prove to be true; confirm; substantiate; corroborate

true; actual; genuine; real; authentic

truth; something true; true statement

see, look, sight

foresee; envisage; have a mental picture of

compose, recite, or sing on the spur of the moment; invent offhand; extemporize

not able to be seen; imperceptible; indiscernible

look at again to correct errors and make improvements; examine and improve

having to do with the transmission or reception of what is seen

make a video tape recording of an event or TV program

degree of clearness of the atmosphere, with reference to the distance at which objects can be clearly seen

having to do with sight

before

against, contrary

from, away, off

in, into, on, against, over

around, round

together, with

against, in the way, over

through, to the end, thoroughly

before, beforehand, fore

forward, forth

opposite of, differently, apart, away

after

good, well

to, toward, near

down, down from, opposite of

not, un

evil, ill, bad, badly

apart

within

outside

out, from, away

between

light

letter

side

stick

gather, flock

birth, kind, class