CLA 30 FINAL easily confused words

conservatism

a belief that it's not the best to make changes

rout

a crushing defeat and disorderly retreat

statue

a form of a person or animal made out of stone

stanza

a group of 4 or more verses

route

a highway or a regular course

officious

a person who offers unnecessary and unwanted services

statute

a rule or regulation set up by a legislative body

verse

a single line in a poem or music

dessert

a sweet meal

perimeter

area around something

climatic

average of the weather conditions in a given zone

illusion

belief not in accord with the facts

parameter

boundary, limit

violation

breaking a minor law

alimentary

connected with food

sanguinary

covered with blood

volition

deliberate act of will

dessicated

dry

conntation

emotional meaning that a word has

biweekly

every 2 weeks

ingenuous

frank, open, simple, naive

ingenious

gifted

innocuous

harmless

sanguine

having a health amount of blood so as to make one optimistic

compliment

little things that are polite or flattering

supine

lying facing upwards

prone

lying on one's stomach

marital

married

extinct

no longer existing

unconscious

not being conscious, being deprived of one's senses

unconsciounable

not guided by one's conscious

disinterested

not influenced by selfish motives

uninterested

not interested

elementary

of first principles, fundamental

complement

parts that taken together make up a whole

official

person in position of authority

denotation

plain, direct meaning of a word used

altercation

quarrel with another person

allusion

reference to something or someone in an indirect or csasual way

tortured

severe pain

stationary

standing without moving

extant

still existing

climactic

the highest point of something

conservation

the preservation of things, such as natural resources

raise

to build

alteration

to change from one thing to another

adapt

to change to meet a new situation

adopt

to choose something for ourselves

inoculate

to create an immunity by injecting a disease into an animal or plant

dissected

to cut apart

raze

to demolish

desert

to leave, abandon

pore

to read, study intensely

pour

to send a liquid flowing or falling

except

to take something out of the rest

accept

to take something to yourself

semiweekly

twice a week

tortuous

twisted, full of curves

martial

warlike

stationery

writing materials