Vocab 821 - 840 Flashcards
Famulus
– noun
1) a servant or attendant, especially of a scholar or a magician.
Skulk
– verb
1) to move in a stealthy manner: The panther skulked through the bush.
Asinine
– adjective
1) silly or stupid: It is surprising that supposedly intelligent people can make such asinine statements.
Derision
– noun
1) ridicule: The inept performance elicited derision from the audience.
– Related forms
derisory, adjective
Contemporaneous
– adjective
1) living or occurring during the same period of time; contemporary.
-- Related forms contemporaneity (Show IPA), contemporaneousness, noun contemporaneously, adverb noncontemporaneous, adjective noncontemporaneously, adverb noncontemporaneousness, noun
Indemnify
– verb
1) to compensate for damage or loss.
-- Related forms indemnifier, noun preindemnify, verb preindemnified, preindemnifying, unindemnified, adjective
Abberation
– noun
1) the departing from the right, normal or usual course.
– Related forms
aberrational, adjective
Perfective
– adjective
1) tending to make perfect or conducive to perfection.
– Related forms
perfectivize, verb
Philosophaster
– noun
1) one who has only a superficial knowledge of philosophy or who feigns a knowledge he or she does not possess.
Verbigeration
– noun
1) the constant or obsessive repetition of meaningless words or phrases.
Weltanschauung
– noun
1) a comprehensive conception or image of the universe and of humanity’s relation to it.
Thalassic
– adjective
1) of or pertaining to seas and oceans.
Subfuscous
– adjective
1) slightly dark, dusky, or somber.
Mysophobia
– noun
1) a dread of dirt or filth.
Screed
– noun
1) a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
