Level 4 Flashcards
(50 cards)
Impute
To charge or attribute, especially with a fault or misconduct, lay the responsibility or blame upon, ascribe, assign.
Provident
Thrifty, economical, saving for future needs, prudent, frugal.
Astute
Shrewd, clever, perceptive, discerning, acute, keenly aware, quick-witted, sagacious, perspicacious, sapient.
Neophyte
A beginner, novice, amateur, tyro; a new member of or convert to a religion.
Enigma
A mystery, puzzle, riddle, perplexing problem, smth or smn hard to understand or explain, baffling, inexplicable, inscrutable.
Credence
Belief, acceptance.
Venerate
To respect deeply, revere, regard with awe and adoration.
Garrulous
Talkative, especially in a rambling, annoying, pointless, or long-winded way, verbose, loquacious, voluble, prolix.
Antonyms: reserved, reticent, taciturn, laconic.
Trenchant
Keen, penetrating, vigorously effective, sharp and to the point, forceful, acute, incisive.
Autonomous
Independent, self-governing, not under the control.
Panacea
A cure-all, universal antidote, remedy for all diseases and difficulties.
Ephemeral
Short-lived, passing, fleeting, lasting for a short time, brief in duration, transitory, evanescent, fugitive, fugacious.
Onerous
Burdensome, troublesome, oppressive, hard to bear, difficult to accomplish or endure: an onerous task.
Laity
Nonprofessionals, laypeople collectively, all the people outside of a given profession or specialized field.
Pungent
Sharp, penetrating, biting, acrid, caustic.
Prosaic
Dull, ordinary, uninteresting, unimaginative, commonplace, humdrum, tedious, dry, stale, mediocre, matter-of-fact, insipid, pedestrian, vapid, jejune.
Charlatan
A fake, quack, imposter, fraud, humbug; a person who pretends to have a special skill or knowledge.
Perfunctory
Mechanical, routine, listless, done merely as a duty, performed in an indifferent, halfhearted, superficial, without interest or enthusiasm.
Morass
A swamp, marsh, bog; fig., smth that traps, confuses, a sticky situation.
Sophistry
Deceptive reasoning, subtle and misleading argument.
Prolific
Fruitful, fertile, productive.
Antonyms: unproductive, barren, sterile, impotent, effete.
Mundane
Of the world, worldly, earthly, material as distinguished from spiritual, terrestrial, temporal, secular + sublunary (beneath the moon)
Antonyms: lofty, heavenly, sublime, celestial, ethereal, extraterrestrial.
Myriad
Countless, innumerable, infinite, consisting of a great or indefinite number.
Dissident
Disagreeing, disaffected, dissenting, nonconformist.