User:Ethan nietche
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12 Angry Men Foreman ~ small, petty man, not overly bright but dogged. Juror #2 ~ A meek, hesitant man and is easily swayed. Juror #3 ~ A very strong, forceful person, antagonist. Juror #4 ~ man of wealth, only concerned with case facts. Juror #5 ~ A naïve young man that takes the case seriously. Juror #6 ~ An honest dull witted man that listens to accept opinions. Juror # 7 ~ A loud, flashy, salesman, that sees all sides of every question. Juror #8 ~ A quite thoughtful man, protagonist, unsure of the case. Juror #9 ~ A mild gentle old man, long since defeated by life and now just waiting to die. Juror #10 ~ An angry bitter man, a bigot. Juror #11 ~ A refugee from Europe who had come to this country in 1941. Juror #12 ~ A bright advertising man a superficial snob, but tries to be a good fellow.
Phil: loving Phon: sound Physi: nature Pseudo: false Psych: mind Pyr : fire Soph: wisdom Tele: far The: god Therm: heat Amphi: around Anti: against Arch: chief Dia: through Epi: upon Eu: good Hyper: excessive Hypo: under Kilo: thousand Meta: change Mono: one Neo: new Peri: around Poly: many Syn, sym: together Microprocessor: a computer main thinking unit Hardware: physical equipment Software: computer programs RAM: random access memory ROM: read only memory Terminal: a work station w/ a keyboard and a monitor Cursor: a blinking light where the words will be typed Merge: combing a document w/ a list of variables Bar code: machine-printed stripes Binary: belonging to a numbering system (1,0) Byte: storage space Kilobyte: 1000 bytes Interface: a link Format: the layout of a document page Justify: to produce text w/ even right margin Macro: a few timesaving keystrokes Affable: easy to talk to Altruistic: unselfish Ambidextrous: able to use both hands Aromatic: fragrant Asinine: stupid Astute: shrewd Bawdy: indecent Bellicose: hostile Berserk: crazed Bizarre: odd in appearance Buoyant: tending to float Buxom: healthily plump Cadaverous: corpse-like Candid: frank Craven: cowardly Dastardly: sneaky and mean Deft: skilled and neat in action Defunct: dead Destitute: extremely poor Diabolic: devilish Discreet: tactful Disenchanted: set free form one’s rosy illusions Dogmatic: strongly opinionated Droll: comical Dubious: doubtful Eccentric: odd Enigmatic: puzzling Exorbitant: extravagant Feasible: practicable Frugal: costing little Furtive: sly Gullible: easily cheated Impeccable: faultless Impromptu: offhand Indomitable: unconquerable Inept: clumsy Innate: inborn; natural Inscrutable: mysterious Insidious: treacherous Intrepid: very brave Lethal: deadly Lethargic: sluggish Lucid: clear Lunar: moon Myopic: nearsighted Naïve: childish Nebulous: cloudy Nostalgic: homesick Occult: beyond human understanding ominous threatening opaque: not letting light through ostentatious: showy and pretentious picayune: petty; trivial prolific: fruitful pusillanimous: cowardly raucous: rough-sounding sagacious: shrewd sedentary: involving sitting senile: aged and infirm sinister: hinging of imminent danger stoical: indifferent to pain or pleasure succinct: concise taciturn: not inclined to talk venerable: aged and worth of reverence verbose: wordy verdant: green vicarious: participating by imagination vindictive: revengeful zealous: enthusiastic bigot: a narrow-minded person braggart: a very boastful person buffoon: a person clowning around bungle : a clumsy, blundering fellow charlatan: one who pretends to have skill colleague: a fellow worker connoisseur: an expert in a special field culprit: one who is guilty dilettante: one that follows an art shallowly felon: a person who has committed a serious crime feminist: on who advocates women’s rights glutton: a person who greedily eats too much gourmet: a specialist in delicacies of the food huckster: an aggressive salesperson ingénue: the role in a play of a young woman luminary: a famous person inspiration to others magnate: a powerful or influential person martyr: one who suffers for a cause nomad: a wanderer without a fixed home oracle: on who makes wise or prophetic statements pacifist: one who is opposed to violence paragon: one who is a model of excellence patriarch: the aging father, ruler of a family prodigy: a remarkably talented person pundit: a very learned person raconteur: a skilled teller of anecdotes recluse: one who lives alone; a hermit ruffian: a brutal, lawless person saboteur: one who damages machines during war schlemiel: slang an awkward unlucky person skeptic: one with a doubting attitude tippler: one who habitually drinks alcohol tycoon: a wealthy and powerful person urchin: a small mischievous boy; any youngster virtuoso: a person with a dazzling technique in an art zealot: one who is extremely devoted to a cause; a fanitic Aphrodisiac : arousing sexual desire Boycott : to refuse to deal with Chauvinism : fanatical or blind patriotism Cynic sneering :disbelief in human goodness Darwinism : theory of evolution Frankenstein monster : dangerous to its creator Herculean :very powerful and courageous Jabberwocky : nonsensical talk Laconic : brief; pithy Lilliputian : very small; tiny person Machiavellian : crafty and deceitful in political strategy Maudlin : tearfully emotional Maverick : a person of unorthodox ideas; acts alone Mentor : a wise and loyal adviser Nimrod : a hunter Odyssey : a long eventful journey Pyrrhic victory : a too costly victory Quixotic : idealistic but ridiculously impractical Robot : a human-like machine Solon : a wise lawmaker Spoonerism : an accidental transposition of sounds Stentorian : extremely loud Tantalize : to tease and torment Utopian : impossibly ideal; socialist Vandal : a person who willfully destroys property Abscond: to depart hastily Acquit: to declare innocent adulterate: to cheapen; to corrupt alienate: to make unfriendly blaspheme: to speak profanely of God; curse bungle: to botch canonize: to declare a dead person sainthood canvass: to go through a district asking for votes cauterize: to sear with a hot iron condone: to pardon decimate: to kill many of deify: to make a god of disconcert: to embarrass disparage: to speak of with contempt disseminate: to scatter everywhere elucidate: to make clear expurgate: to remove obscene matter extradite: to return a fugitive to another place haggle: to argue in petty fashion about price heckle: to harass with questions immobilize: to make unable to move impeach: to accuse an official of wrongdoing intimidate: to make timid laud: to praise orient: to adjust to a situation ostracize: to exclude for society pander: to help satisfy procrastinate: to delay prognosticate: to predict rant: to speak wildly raze: to tear to the ground recant: to renounce simulate: to pretend slander: to utter falsehoods smirk: to simile in a conceited manner supersede: to take the place of simile: using “like” or “as” metaphor: figure of speech without “like” or “as” alliteration: the repeating of a sound onomatopoeia: use of words sounds as meaning hyperbole: a gross exaggeration litotes: when a point is made by denying of its opposite apostrophe: addressing a non-present person metonymy: name of a thing used for something else oxymoron: combining to contradictory words antithesis: strong contrast of expressions personification: making human like allusion: a passing reference to something irony: saying the opposite of what is meant symbol: an object or a story element with 2 meanings
