List 7 Flashcards
Benevolent
Showing, doing, or resulting in good; kindhearted
Badger
To harass persistently: to annoy
Elapse
To slip by as in time
Fitful
Stopping and starting intermittently
Genre
A category: a type
Haven
A place of safety : a sanctuary
Immaterial
Of little or no importance: irrelevant
Innate
Passed from birth; inborn; inherent
Kindle
To set fire; to catch fire; to arouse feelings; to stir emotions
Listless
Lacking energy: unebthusiastic
Meager
Lacking abundance; inadequate
Octogenarian
Someone between eighty and eighty-nine years old
Permeate
To spread or flow through; to penetrate throughout
Republic
A government in which citizens elect officials
Tether
A rope or chain used to restrain ; to use a rope or chain to restrain