Unit 2 Vocabulary

Vocabulary

100

Make something grow in strength

Intensify

100

To smother something

Stifle

100

To express sympathy or sorrow

Condole

100

A practice or procedure widely used by a group; a custom

Convention

200

To something right or valid

Justify

200

To do something with intense emotion

Vehemently

200

A facial expression of pain or disgust

Grimace

200

To tell about in advance, especially on the basis of special knowledge

Predict

300

To have comparable or similar parts

Parallel

300

Jeering laughter or ridicule

Derision

300

A tendency to believe too readily

Credulity

300

The study of mental processes and behaviors

Psychology

400

To think of an idea

Conceive

400

To be false or deceptive

Hypocritical

400

Something, such as money, that is received as payment

Compensation

400

A condensed, or shorter, report that includes the main points of a text or event

Summary

500

Annoy

Vex

500

Something that is dangerous

Peril

500

The acceptance of something that is inescapable

Resignation

500

The systematic or orderly procedure by which a task is accomplished

Technique