Monday, February 10, 2014

VOCAB #5

Cognitive:pertaining to the act or process of knowing, perceiving, remembering
Mundane: common or ordinary
Merriment: cheerful
Etymology: word origin
Evanescent: vanishing or fading away
Novelty: state of being new or unique
Reconciliation:to bring into agreement
Scant: limited
Unscrupulous: unprincipled
Tentative: unsure or uncertain
Inception:the beginning
Brevity:shortness of time, briefness
Empirical:derived from experience or experiment
Seminal:original, influencing the development of future events
Dissemination: spreading widely
Exemplify:to show by example
Valence: the capacity of one person or thing to react with or affect another in some special way
Impediment: obstacle
Vagary: an unpredictable event
Transitivity: transitional

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