Level 6 Flashcards
(50 cards)
Puerile
Childish, immature, infantile, juvenile; foolish, silly, inane, frivolous, asinine, fatuous, sophomoric, callow.
Legerdemain
Sleight of hand, a cleverly executed trick, magic, prestidigitation, thaumaturgy.
Complicity
Conspiracy, criminal participation, direct association in guilt, confederacy, collusion, complicity.
Transmute
Transform, change from one nature/form/substance into another (better one).
Abstruse
Difficult to understand, hard to grasp mentally, deep, profound, incomprehensible, unfathomable; inscrutable, esoteric, occult, cryptic, enigmatic, arcane, recondite, acroamatic.
Antonyms: manifest, discernible, lucid, perspicuous.
Edify
To instruct, improve, teach, enlighten (intellectually, morally, spiritually).
Supercilious
Haughtily, proud, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful.
Dissemble
To disguise, conceal under a false appearance, speak or behave hypocritically, mask under a pretense or deceptive manner, feign, affect, simulate, camouflage, equivocate, prevaricate.
Vacuous (figurative)
Empty, vacant, blank, unintelligent, shallow, stupid, senseless, inane, fatuous.
Capacious
Roomy, spacious, ample.
Figuratively: broad, comprehensive.
Mnemonic
Helping or pertaining to the memory, improving the ability to recall.
Sonorous
Resonant; deep, full and rich in sound; having or capable if producing a powerful, impressive sound.
Admonish
To warn or notify of a fault, to criticize gently but earnestly, advise, counsel, caution, apprise, exhort, expostulate.
Paradigm
An example, model, pattern.
Circuitous
Roundabout, indirect, not straightforward, devious, meandering, sinuous, tortuous, serpentine, labyrinthine.
Vindicate
To clear from blame, free from suspicion of wrongdoing, exonerate, acquit.
Bucolic
Rural, rustic, pastoral, provincial, agrarian, idyllic, Arcadian.
Antonyms: urban, municipal, civic, metropolitan, cosmopolitan.
Ostracize
To banish, send into exile, expel from a place;
To bar, exclude, reject from a group.
Plethora
An excess, surplus, overabundance, oversupply, superabundance, profusion, superfluity, surfeit.
Plethoric - bombastic.
Antonyms: scarcity, insufficiency, dearth, paucity
Proclivity
An inclination, liking, leaning, a strong tendency, partiality, penchant, predisposition, predilection, propensity.
Commensurate
Proportionate; equal, of the same size or extent.
Incessant
Constant, uninterrupted, continuous, unceasing, interminable, relentless, unremitting.
Antonyms: occasional, irregular, intermittent, incidental, sporadic, fitful, erratic.
Sycophant
A flatterer, parasite, toady, fawning follower, hanger-on.
Tangential
No closely related, only slightly connected, digressive, divergent.
