Found Words Flashcards
(31 cards)
Salubrious
Healthy, favorable to or promoting health or well-being
Fresh air and an exercise routine have always been considered salubrious activities
Paean
A work that praises or honors its subjects
Incipient
Beginning to come into being or becoming apparent
Inchoate
Being only partly in existence or operation; imperfectly formed
Fecund
Fruitful in offspring or vegetation; Intellectually productive to a degree
Irrefragable
Impossible to refute; impossible to break or alter
The prosecutor painstakingly built an irrefragable case.
Dogma
Something held as an established opinion. A point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds
Polity
Political organization
Draconian
Relating to the cruel or severe laws formed by Draco, a 7th century Athenian law giver
Mercenary
One that serves primarily for wages
Facetious
- Joking or jesting often inappropriately
2. Meant to be humorous or funny, not serious
Panegyric
- Eulogistic oration or writing
2. Formal or elaborate praise
Elocution
- A style of speaking especially in public
2. The art of speaking effectively in public
Paltry
Inferior, trivial, despicable
Abhorrent
Causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred
Impede
Slow the progress of
Desultory
Lacking a plan
Parsimonious
Frugal
Circumnavigate
To go around rather than through
Circumvent
To avoid altogether
Sacrosanct
Sacred, inviolable
Postulate
To hypothesize
Pestilential
Harmful, virulent
Insipid
Commonplace, boring