10/4 Flashcards by Katie Slenker

Martinet

A strict disciplinarian, exacting demands

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Polyglot

Speaking many languages

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Dissembler

To disguise or conceal (ones true nature) behind a false appearance; to make a false show of, feign

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Dissimilitude

Lack of resemblance, dissimilarity, difference

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Labyrinthine

Complicated, tortuous, resembling and labyrinth

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Pithy

Concise and forcefully expressive expressive

Syn: terse, concise, succinct

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Notion

A conception or belief of something

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Perils

Dangers, challenges

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Disposed

Inclined or willing, having an attitude to or towards

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Ambivalent

Having contradictory feelings

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Deride

Express contempt for, ridicule

Syn: mock, scoff, taunt,nsneer, jeer

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Permissive

Habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerant of something others might disapprove of

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Contrivance

Something that is created skillfully and inventively to serve a particular purpose
Or the use of a skill to bring about something

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Abound

To be in abundance

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Binary

Double, dual, two fold

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Enthrall

Spell bound

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Prevail

To come out on top

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Miser

Hoards wealth and spends as little as possible

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Brusque

Abrupt or offhand in speech or manner

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Pointed

Expressing criticism in a direct and unambiguous way

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Polemical

Impassioned, argumentative attack on something

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Extant

In existence

Few documents from 1700 are extant today

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Ephemeral

Short lived

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Pragmatic

Practical

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Alacrity

Brisk and cheerful readiness; eagerness

Voracity

Full of hunger

Maintain

To assert | A scientist maintains that a recent finding supports her theory.

Contrite

To feel remorse, affected by guilt

Pugnacious

Verbally combative, aggressively argumentative

Disparate

Two things that are fundamentally different

Egregious

Outstandingly bad, shocking OR Remarkably good

Ploddingly

To go very slowly, take time

Dissolution

Something comes apart | Dissolution of NATO.

Scrupulous

Ethical, do the right thing; show attention to detail

Hoodwink

Trick or deceive

Dovetail

To come together or fit together nicely

Conciliate

Make peace with

Concede

To accept, give in

Contrive

To bring something about or try, but comes unnaturally To create or bring about by deliberate use of skill and artiface Manage to do some the foolish or create an undesirable situation. Syn: invent, concoct, fabricate, think up, devise

Auspicious

Favorable, conducive to success

Mercurial

Animated, sprightly

Reticent

Tight lipped, not prone to saying much

Inculpate

To accuse or charge with wrong doing

Proxy

Acting on ones behalf

Malaise

Weakness, discomfort preceding an illness

Quash

Suppress completely

Shirk

Avoid ones work or duties | Syn: evade, neglect, avoid

Dynamic

Characterized by constant change

Limpid

Calm, without worry

Scrimping

Sparing

Repose

To lay at rest

Cogitation

Intense thinking or mediation

Complaisance

Tractability, quality of complying with others wishes

Acquiesce

Agree with something passively

Abet

Support an action, especially something illegal

Tacit

Implied but not expressed | like a group leader who assumes the role and its basically understood

Fledgling

Inexperienced, still learning

Incommutable

Not exchangeable or not tolerable

Insensate

Without feeling, sense, understanding or judgment

Attrition

A reduction or decrease in numbers,size, or strength | A wearing down or weakening of resistance, especially as a result or continuous pressure or harassment

Torpidity

Inactive or sluggish

Rebuke

Criticize

Lambaste

Reprimand harshly

Adulate

Praise highly

Requite

To repay or reciprocate

Mountebank

Charlatan

Anyone running a con

Dilettante

One who takes up an activity in a superficial way or claims an area of interest without real commitment or knowledge

Sybarite

A person devoted to luxury or pleasure

Feckless

Lacking in efficiency or vitality

Avon

Declare or state assuredly

Flag

Decline

Descry

To catch sight of | Syn: espy, discern ,perceive, behold

Redouble

Double, echo, go back over

Proclivity

An inclination, predisposition

Celerity

Speed, rapidness of movement or action

Forlorn

Lonely, miserable, hopeless

Complicit with

Involved with but not directly responsible for a moral or legal wrong

Unflapppable

Not easily excited

Perfidious

Treacherous, deceitful

Superagatory

An action performed beyond what is expected

Retrograde

Progressing of moving backward

Etiolate

Weaken or drain of vigor

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