English Flashcards
Vocabulary (29 cards)
Loquacity
Talkativeness
Incorrigible
Beyond correction or reform
Ocular
Visual
Demagogue
Rabble-rouser
Connoisseur
A person who knows a lot about art, good food, etc
Gourmet
Connoisseur of good food
Magnanimous
Generous
Clandestine
Secret and often not legal
Placate
To change feeling of hostility to one of friendliness
Vacillate
To swing back and forth in indecision
Intrepid
Fearless
Diaphanous
Sheer and gauzy/ light and thin
Malign
Slander/ The action or crime of false spoken statement to damage the reputation
Unequivocal
Leaving no doubt/ clear and forthright
Vicarious enjoyment
obtained by watching or reading about someone rather than oneself
Iconoclastic
Sneering at tradition/ criticising cherished beliefs
Anachronous
Something is chronologically out of place, or misplaced in time
Laconic
Terse and meaningful
atisankshipt
Cavalier
Haughty and highhanded
Disdainful
Indifferent
Considering oneself to be superior
Semantic
The study of meaning in language, including how words and expressions got their meanings, etc
Enervated
completely exhausted
Perspicacity
The quality of having a ready insight into things;
Shrewdness (good powers of judgement)
Martinet
Strict disciplinarian
Gregarious
Very sociable
Liking to be with other people
