Vocabulary Terms 211 - 240

noun a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

noun a sign of something about to happen

adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of importance or distinction; intended to attract notice and impress others

adj. having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water; good at remembering; having the capacity to retain something

noun the group following and attending to some important person

noun the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence; a source of materials to nourish the body

adj. based on sound reasoning or evidence

adj. sticking together; good at remembering; stubbornly unyielding

adj. having thin consistency; having little substance or significance

noun the right to hold property; the term during which some position is held; verb give life-time employment to

verb advance evidence for

verb mistake one thing for another; be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly

verb make sense of; assign a meaning to

noun a difficult problem

adj. having a puzzling terseness; of an obscure nature; having a secret or hidden meaning

verb be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

noun (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

adj. affording free passage; clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; noun a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention; verb make open to sight or notice; obtain a patent for; grant rights to; grant a patent for

noun the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions; intelligence manifested by being astute

adj. being in the earliest stages of development; not fully developed in mature animals; being or involving basic facts or principles

adj. large and roomy

adj. bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent

noun a complete extent or range; the entire scale of musical notes

adj. not capable of being computed or enumerated

noun the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet; a tiny or scarcely detectable amount

adj. of imposing height; especially standing out above others; of high moral value

noun the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); relative importance; a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities

adj. very small

adj. (informal) small and of little importance

noun an indication that something has been present