Chapter 22 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Luminous
Glowing or bright
Relating to light
Ineptly
Lacking skill or ability
Impetuosity
Impulsive
Doing quickly with little thought
Goad
Rod to move animals
Something that moves people
Ramifications
Something that is the result of an action
Paternalistic
Governing intrusively
Coercion
To make someone do something by using force or threats
Inequities
Lack of fairness
Strident
Sounding harsh or unpleasant
Retroactivity
Extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed in the past
Guile
The use of clever and usually dishonest methods to achieve something
Pecuniary
Consisting of or measured in money
Debacle
A great disaster or complete failure
Fester
To become worse as time passes
Contours
The general structure or outline of something
Resuscitation
To bring back to a concours or active state