REA 0002

Vocabulary Chapters 9 and 10

bolster

• You can bolster your grade by doing some extra credit.

• To support• To hold up • Strengthen or reinforce• Support with a rigid object

depreciate

• The value of your car will depreciate the moment you drive it off the lot.

• To become less valuable• To fall or decrease in value or price• To lower the value of

indiscriminate

• I made too many indiscriminate choices when I went shopping last week.

• Not selective• Not chosen carefully • Not based on careful selection

inquisitive

• Inquisitive students do much better than those who are less curious.

• Questioning• Curious• Eager to learn

nebulous

• The student gave me a nebulous reason about his absence.

• Indefinite• Vague• unclear

relegate

• When you had family dinners, did your parents relegate the younger children to eat in the kitchen.

• To send• To assign to a less important or less

satisfying position, place or condition

replete

• The Thanksgiving table was replete with all my favorite foods.

• Filled• Plentifully supplied• Well filled

sedentary

• My job is very sedentary. I do not get much exercise.

• Involving much sitting• Marked by much sitting• Requiring or taking little exercise

tenet

• One tenet of the Christian religion is to do unto others as you want them to do to you.

• A principle• A belief or principle held to be true

by an individual or group

terse

• This is an example of a terse sentence.

• Short• Brief and clear• Effectively concise

autonomy

• We all want autonomy. But we cannot always do just what we want.

• Freedom from control• Independence• Self-government

bureaucratic

• MCC is an example of a bureaucratic system.

• Over-regulated• Insisting on strict rules and routine

often to the point of hindering effectiveness

mandate

• George W. Bush felt he had a mandate from the people when he won the election.

• An authorization• A group’s expressed wishes• Clear Signal to act• Voter’s wish

ostracize

• We did not want to ostracize John from the class. But, his behavior required it.

• To reject • To expel or exclude from a group

raucous

• The class became raucous when the teacher announced the surprise test.

• Disorderly• Noisy and disorderly• boisterous

recourse

• I had no recourse but to sue him for my injuries.

• A way to get help• A source of help, security or

strength• Something to turn to

reiterate

• Let me reiterate. The test will be on Friday.

• To repeat• To state again or repeatedly

tantamount

• Buying coffee at Starbucks is tantamount to robbery.

• Just like • Equal in effect or value• The same as

tenacious

• The hero had a tenacious grasp on the side of the mountain.

• grasping strongly• Holding firm• Persistent• stubborn

utopia

• It might be nice to live in utopia.

• A paradise• An ideal or perfect place or state• A place achieving social or political

perfection