English vocab Flashcards
(50 cards)
Blight
Something that weakens, damages or destroys
Blatant
Very obvious, often offensively so.
Qualm
An uneasy feeling about how right or proper a particular action is
Garble
To mix up or confuse (a story of message); scramble
Plagiarism
Using someone else’s ideas or writings as one’s own.
Gloat
To feel or express delight or self-satisfaction often spitefully
Contrive
To plan cleverly, think up
Retaliate
To return an injury for an injury, pay back
Immaculate
Perfectly clean
Gaunt
Thin and bony
Squander
To waste, spend or use foolishly
Curtail
To cut short or reduce
Incentive
Something that moves one to take action or work harder, a motivation
Digress
To turn aside, or stray, especially from the main topic in speaking or writing.
Rigor
Great hardship or difficulty, harshness, severity
Devastate
To upset deeply, overwhelm
Succumb
To give in, stop resisting
Indispensable
Necessary
Incorporate
To unite into a single whole, combine
Intermittent
Starting and stopping from time to time, off-and-on
Covert
Secret, hidden
Cynic
A person who believes the worst of people’s behaviour and motives, who believes they are only motivated by selfishness
Intrinsic
Belonging to a person or thing by it’s very nature, built in
Infamous
Having a very bad reputation, widely known for being vicious, criminal or deserving of contempt
