Chapter 6 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Extenuate (v.)
to represent (a fault, offense, etc.) as less serious: to extenuate a crime.
to serve to make (a fault, offense, etc.) seem less serious.
to underestimate, underrate, or make light of: Do not extenuate the difficulties we are in.
Archaic.
to make thin, lean, or emaciated.
to reduce the consistency or density of.
Fastidious (adj.)
excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking.
Expostulate (n.)
to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate: His father expostulated with him about the evils of gambling.
Disparate (adj.)
distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar: disparate ideas.
Emolument
profit, salary, or fees from office or employment; compensation for services: Tips are an emolument in addition to wages. Synonyms: earnings, pay, recompense, stipend, honorarium.
Disport (n.)
to divert or amuse (oneself). to display (oneself) in a sportive manner: The picnickers disported themselves merrily on the beach.
Encomium
a formal expression of high praise; eulogy: An encomium by the President greeted the returning hero.
Enunciate (v.)
to utter or pronounce (words, sentences, etc.), especially in an articulate or a particular manner: He enunciates his words distinctly.
to state or declare definitely, as a theory.
to announce or proclaim: to enunciate one’s intentions.
Doggerel (n.)
comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure.
rude; crude; poor.
Ellipsis (adj.)
the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction, as the omission of who are, while I am, or while we are from I like to interview people sitting down.
the omission of one or more items from a construction in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items that are in a preceding or following construction, as the omission of been to Paris from the second clause of I’ve been to Paris, but they haven’t.
Dissemble
to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one’s incompetence in business.
Febrile (adj.)
pertaining to or marked by fever; feverish.
Dolorous (adj.)
full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful: a dolorous melody; dolorous news.
Epicure
a person who cultivates a refined taste, especially in food and wine; connoisseur.
Archaic. a person dedicated to sensual enjoyment.
Fecundity (n.)
the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
fruitfulness or fertility, as of the earth.
the capacity of abundant production: fecundity of imagination.
Exiguous (adj.)
scanty; meager; small; slender: exiguous income.
Facile (adj.)
moving, acting, working, proceeding, etc., with ease, sometimes with superficiality: facile fingers; a facile mind.
easily done, performed, used, etc.: a facile victory; a facile method.
easy or unconstrained, as manners or persons.
affable, agreeable, or complaisant; easily influenced: a facile temperament; facile people.
Edify (v.)
to instruct or benefit, especially morally or spiritually; uplift: religious paintings that edify the viewer.
Equanimity (n.)
mental or emotional stability or composure, especially under tension or strain; calmness; equilibrium.
Evince (v.)
to show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove.
to reveal the possession of (a quality, trait, etc.).
Equable (n.)
free from many changes or variations; uniform: an equable climate; an equable temperament.
uniform in operation or effect, as laws.
