Advanced Vocab Words - Set 9 Flashcards Preview

adj. dishonest

Phyllis is mendacious yet entertaining; she is fun to talk to at a party, but I wouldn't believe a word she says.

adj. important
adj. pompous, self-important

I am not prepared to accept such consequential airs from a journalist 20 years my junior.

adj. trembling, timid, fearful

He signed the contract with a tremulous hand.

n. a beggar, a supplicant

There was a large number of mendicants stalking the street.

n. exit
v. to exit

It was thought that the prisoner, seeking egress from his cell before the spreading fire consumed it, had managed to slip out between the warping floorboards.

adj. beyond what is normal or natural

Occasionally, people with mental illnesses also exhibit preternatural abilities in mathematics or memorization.

v. to verbally attack
v. to explode

The crotchety old fool fulminated about every sort of modern improvement while we listened, too stunned to interrupt him.

v. to fool or deceive

They gulled Akiko so well that she walked right into her own surprise party without suspecting a thing.

n. a riddle in which words are represented by pictures

Pictures of bees and eyes are commonly used in a rebus to symbolize the words "be" and "I".

adj. commonplace, trite, unremarkable

Timothy's dissertation was lengthy but pedestrian.

adj. distracted as a result of anxiety

The distrait teacher kept pausing mid-sentence to look out the window.

adj. vicious, evil

The nefarious conspirators left nothing in the poor woman's house.

adj. inclined to make arguments, divisive, contentious

Many networks purposely select factious personalities to appear in their reality T.V. shows in the hopes that their bickering will attract viewers.

adj. dishonorable, disgraceful

The ignoble act of profiteering at someone else's expense is not to be condoned.

n. a characterizing phrase
n. a disparaging word or phrase

Ivan the Terrible's name was one epithet I do not envy.

adj. pain-relieving, soothing; bland
n. a distress-reliever

She tried to keep the conversation as anodyne as possible

adj. uninteresting, dull
adj. immature
adj. lacking in nutrition

It may be said that her verse is jejune, but I happen to find a sage sensibility in her later poems.

adj. agreeable; overcoming distrust or hostility

Karen's conciliatory attitude helped her to move up in the business.

n. a dispersion of people from their homeland (esp. Jews)
n. a community of dispersed people

The African diaspora throughout the world has settled into certain traditions, some of which are not actually African in origin.

v. to writhe, toss about; to be in turmoil

The lake weltered in the storm, tossing the boat all over.

mendacious
(men-dey-shuhs)

synonyms: deceptive, false

consequential
(kon-suh-kwen-shuhl)

synonyms: significant, considerable; egotistic

tremulous
(trem-yuh-luhs)

synonyms: quivering, cowardly, nervous

mendicant
(men-dih-kuhnt)

synonyms: panhandler, pauper

egress
(n. ee-grehss; v. ih-grehss)

synonyms: departure, escape, withdrawal

preternatural
(pree-ter-nach-er-uhl)

synonyms: anomalous, irregular, bizarre

fulminate
(fuhl-muh-neyt)

synonyms: berate, condemn; blast, blow up

gull
(guhl)

synonyms: mislead, hoodwink, dupe

rebus
(ree-buhss)

synonyms: puzzle, enigma

pedestrian
(puh-dess-tree-uhn)

synonyms: everyday, dull, uninteresting