List 1 Flashcards
(27 cards)
To make greater, richer, more powerful
To exaggerate
Aggrandize
Lacking freshness for originality; common place, ordinary
Banal
Trickery, especially in legal dealings; use of subterfuge or trickery in debate
Chicanery
To indicate
Denote
One who organizes and manages a business, assuming the risk or profit or loss
Entrepreneur
An inanimate object thought to have inherent magical powers, and therefore worshiped
Anything irrationally reverenced; obsession
Fetish
Hatefully bad or wicked; abominable
Heinous
Thinking deeply or seriously, often of sad or melancholy things
Pensive
To evoke resentment in
To arouse
Pique
Expressing sorrow; mournful
Plaintive
Forceful and effective; keen, penetrating
Trenchant
Green with growing plants or grass; green in color
Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated
Verdant
Badly, wrongly
Hater hatred
Mis-
Across
Trans-
Not
Un-
Struggle, contest
AGON
To fall, to befall, to happen
CAD, CAS, CID
To say
DIC, DICT
To bear, to carry
FER
To swear
JUR
Death
MORT
All
OMNI
To hang, to weigh, to pay
PEND, PENS
Pertaining to
-ac, -iac