2nd Quarter Assignment Packets for Pre-Medicine Chemistry
November
WORD OF THE DAY

11-07  IDIOM – a phrase not to be taken literally; an expression whose meaning is not to be taken from the individual words but the phrase as a whole – example:  It’s raining cats and dogs.
11-08  STOIC – indifferent (at least outwardly) to pleasure or pain, joy or grief, fortune or misfortune; detached
11-09  IRASCIBLE – bad tempered; irritable; easily provoked to anger
11-10  TENACIOUS – tough; hard to defeat; determined; holding fast to an object or idea 
11-14  CRYPTIC – mysterious; mystifying; puzzling; secret; mystical
11-15  UNIFORM – (adj.) consistent; unchanging; the same for everyone; example – a uniform building code;  (noun) an identifying outfit worn by members of an organization or group
11-16  FICKLE – likely to change; unpredictable, like fickle weather; changing due to a sudden whim
11-17  VIRTUOSO – a masterful musician; a masterful practitioner who has special knowledge or skill in some field, such as music, art, culture, etc. 
11-21  NEUTRAL – not taking sides; unbiased; objective
11-22  TREPIDATION –fear; apprehension; nervous trembling 
11-28  LETHARGY – laziness; drowsiness; indifference; sluggishness 
11-29 FLAGRANT – shocking; outstandingly bad; something offensive that can’t be  
overlooked   
11-30 APPEASE – to soothe; to calm or make peaceful; to pacify
12-01  ACQUIESCE – to consent; to agree; to yield; to give in
12-02  (review of week’s words)
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