6B Flashcards
(10 cards)
Fetter
Noun & Verb
-a chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner, typically placed around the ankles.
-restrain with chains or manacles, typically around the ankles.
shackles, manacles, handcuffs, irons,
Heinous
adjective
-(of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked.
Evil, monstrous
Immutable
adjective
-unchanging over time or unable to be changed.
Fixed, set
Insurgent
adjective and noun
-rising in active revolt.
-a rebel or revolutionary.
Renegade, revolutionary
Megalomania
noun
-obsession with the exercise of power
-delusion about one’s own power or importance
Politicians, delusions of grandeur
Sinecure
noun
-a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit.
Easy job, Cushy job
Surreptitious
adjective
-kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.
Sly, sneaky
Transgress
verb
-infringe or go beyond the bounds of (a moral principle or other established standard of behavior).
-spread over land (from the sea)
Misbehave, fall from grace
Transmute
verb
-change in form, nature, or substance.
Alter, translate
Vicarious
adjective
-experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person.
-acting or done for another.
-of or pertaining to the performance by one organ of the functions done by another
Indirect, surrogate