MAT1 Flashcards
(32 cards)
lachrymose
showing sorrow
lassitude
a feeling of lack of interest or energy
licentious
lacking moral discipline
limpid
clear and bright
lissome
moving and bending with ease
lithe
moving and bending with ease
imprecation
the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil
impute
attribute or credit to
incredulous
not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving
inculpate
suggest that someone is guilty
indelible
cannot be removed or erased
indigent
poor enough to need help from others
indignant
angered at something unjust or wrong
inexorable
not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
fractious
easily irritated or annoyed
exculpate
pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
expurgate
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
dogged
stubbornly unyielding
doleful
filled with or evoking sadness
ebb
the outward flow of the tide
effrontery
audacious behavior that you have no right to
elegy
a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
corporeal
having material or physical form or substance
corpulence
the property of excessive fatness