"advanced" words Flashcards
prosaic
lacking imagination
expansive
communicative; prone to talking
truculent
having a fierce, savage nature
saturnine
morose, gloomy
lascivious
lecherous; sexually perverted
feckless
lazy and irresponsible
perfunctory
done routinely; with little interest or care
penurious
lacking money; poor; miserly
arrant
complete and wholly
alacrity
an eager willingness to do something
fractious
irritable; likely to cause destruction
vicissitude
change in circumstances (for the worse)
defray
to help pay the cost of
apogee
the highest point
factious
produced by internal dissension (think FACTION)
indigent
poor; having very little
cow
to intimidate
kowtow
to bow; act in a subservient manner
chary
cautious; suspiciously reluctant to do something
equivocate
to speak vaguely with the intention to mislead
sedulous
done diligently and carefully