fall Flashcards
(55 cards)
ramification
A complex or unwelcome consequence of an action or event. ‘any change is bound to have legal ramifications’
poignant
Evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret:
‘a poignant reminder of the passing of time’
prescient
Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place:
‘a prescient warning’
classism
Prejudice against people belonging to a particular social class:
‘they are told to be on watch against the evils of classism’
daunting
Seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; intimidating:
‘a daunting task’
charisma
Compelling attractiveness or charm that can inspire devotion in others:
‘he has tremendous charisma and stage presence’
nihilistic
Rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless:
‘an embittered, nihilistic teenager’
vernacular
he language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region:
‘he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience’
banal
So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring:
‘songs with banal, repeated words’
genre
A style or category of art, music, or literature:
‘the spy thriller is a very masculine genre’
‘the science fiction genre’
specter
A ghost:
‘a dread of spectres and witches affected every aspect of daily life’
condescending
Having or showing an attitude of patronizing superiority:
‘she thought the teachers were arrogant and condescending’
‘a condescending smile’
forlorn
Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely:
‘forlorn figures at bus stops’
unlikely to succeed or be fulfilled:
‘a forlorn attempt to escape’
grandiose
Extravagantly or pretentiously imposing in appearance or style:
‘the court’s grandiose facade’
Conceived on a very grand or ambitious scale:
‘grandiose plans to reform the world’
latent
existing but not yet developed or manifest; hidden or concealed:
‘they have a huge reserve of latent talent’
Lying dormant or hidden until circumstances are suitable for development or manifestation:
‘axillary buds or eyes in the leaf axils are latent growth buds’
multiplicities
A large number or variety:
‘the demand for higher education depends on a multiplicity of factors’
perpetuate
Make (something) continue indefinitely:
‘the confusion was perpetuated through inadvertence’
‘a monument to perpetuate the memory of those killed in the war’
justification
The action of showing something to be right or reasonable:
‘the justification of revolutionary action’
‘he made a speech in justification of his career’
intrinsically
In an essential or natural way:
‘murder is intrinsically evil’
‘I think music and spirituality are intrinsically linked’
caricature
A picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect:
‘a crude caricature of the Prime Minister’
‘there are elements of caricature in the portrayal of the hero’
bombastic
High-sounding but with little meaning; inflated:
‘bombastic rhetoric’
‘bombastic music that drowned out what anyone was saying’
penultimate
Last but one in a series of things; second last:
‘the penultimate chapter of the book’
portray
Depict (someone or something) in a work of art or literature:
‘the ineffectual Oxbridge dons portrayed by Evelyn Waugh’
ideograms
A character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. Examples include numerals and Chinese characters.
