List11 Flashcards
(88 cards)
Overture
Something introductory, prelude
Proposal
Bleak
Not warm, friendly, cheerful
Not hopeful or encouraging
Generic
General
Gravity
a serious situation or problem
The condition of being grave or serious
Diverting
Providing amusement or entertainment
Propitious
Favourable
Likely to have or produce good result
Brute
Very strong and forceful
Very harsh
Flout
to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn
Culpable
Blameworthy
Guilty
Fret
To agitate
To cause to suffer emotional strain
To become worried
Stagnate
To stop developing, moving etc
Arduous
Very difficult.
Outlandish
Very strange or unusual
Foreign
Frenzy
A temporary madness
intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity
Intrinsic
belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing
Sway
to cause (someone) to agree with you or to share your opinion
Refute
to prove wrong
Disregard
: to ignore (something) or treat (something) as unimportant
Idle
lacking worth or basis
not occupied or employed
Lazy
Rehash
to talk over or discuss again
to present or use again in another form without substantial change or improvement
Transcend
To overcome
Manage
to have control of
to take care of and make decisions about
Empirical
based on testing or experience
Obscure
not well-known : not known to most people
Difficult to understand
difficult or impossible to know completely and with certainty