Vocab List 12: Sect

(n) - the point at which two lines or roads 

meet and cut across each other

• insect

• intersection

• section

• sectional

(n) - a separate part of something

• transect

• section

• insect

• dissect

(n) - surgery on living animals; medical research 

that involves cutting into living animals to study organs, tissues, 

or diseases

• vivisection

• sectional

• section

• transect

(n) - a couch that is made up of separate pieces

• section

• bisect

• transect

• sectional

(v) - to cut into three separate pieces

• bisect

• sectional

• trisect

• sector

(v) - to cut into two pieces

• dissect

• trisect

• bisect

• vivisection

(v) - to cut apart for the purpose of investigation

• dissect

• bisect

• trisect

• insect

(n) - a separate part of a society, group, or area

• sector

• section

• sectional

• vivisection

(n) - a class of small arthropod animals that has 

three separate sections to their bodies; head, thorax, 

abdomen

• bisect

• trisect

• sector

• insect

(v) - to cut across something

• dissect

• bisect

• trisect

• transect