Lesser Known 2nd Meanings Flashcards
August (adj)
Majestic, venerable
Alloy (v)
To commingle
Bent (n)
Leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
Brook (v)
To tolerate; to endure
Chauvinist (n)
A blindly devoted patriot
Consequential (adj)
Pompous, self-important (primary definition = logically following)
Damp (v)
To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound (damper pedal)
Die (n)
A tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop
Essay (v)
To test or try; to attempt; to experiment
Fell (adj)
Inhumanly cruel
Flag (v)
To sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline
Grouse (v)
To complain or grumble
Guy (n)
A rope cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide
Intimate (v)
To imply, suggest, or insinuate
List (v)
To tilt or lean to one side
Meet (adj)
Fitting, proper
Mince (v)
To pronounce or speak affectedly or too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps/tiptoe
Nice (adj)
Exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
Obtain (adj)
To be established, accepted, or customary
Occult (adj)
Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
Pedestrian (adj)
Commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
Pied (adj)
Multicolored, usually in blotches
Pine (v)
To lose vigor (as through grief) to yearn
Prize (v)
To pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoil
Rent (v)
Torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such
Quail (v)
To lose courage; to turn frightened
Qualify (v)
To limit
Sap (n)
A fool or nitwit
Scurvy (adj)
Contemptible, despicable
Stand (n)
A group of trees
Strut (n)
The supporting structural cross-part of a wing
Table (v)
To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration
Tender (v)
To proffer or offer
Waffle (v)
To equivocate; to change one’s position
Wag (n)
Wit, joker
Abjure (v)
To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant
Adumbrate (v)
To foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
Anathema (n)
A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
Anodyne (adj/n)
Soothing; something that assuaged or always pain, comforts
Apogee (n)
Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
Apostate (n)
One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
Apotheosis (n)
Exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection
Asperity (n)
Severity; rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
Asseverate (v)
To aver, allege, or assert