Nov 8th Flashcards
(45 cards)
Quantifiable
Able to be expressed as an amount, quantity or numerical value
zealous
Marked by fervent partisanship for a person, a cause, or an ideal: filled with zeal
Beguile
- HOODWINK
2. To engage the interest of or as if by guile
Forestall
- To exclude, hinder or prevent by prior occupation or measure
- To get ahead of something: ANTICIPATE
Baffle
To defeat by confusing
Insouciance
Nonchalance
Relaxed and calm as if not worried about anything or do not care about anything
Stoicism
Indifference to pleasure or pain
Nullify
To make null
Accentuate
To make something more prominent or noticeable
ACCENT, EMPHASIZE
Knotty
Marked by or fully of knots
COMPLICATED
Mundane
Full and ordinary
Relating to ordinary life
Vapid
Lacking favor, zest, interests
FLAT, DULL
Sagacious
Of keen and farsighted penetration and judgements: DISCERNING
Distressing
To cause great strain or difficulties
To cause to worry or be troubled
Detrimental
Causing damage or injury
Quixotic
- Foolishly impractical
2. CAPRICIOUS, UNPREDICTABLE
precarious
Not safe, strong, or steady
Rapacious
- Excessively grasping or covetous
- Living on prey
- RAVENOUS
Covetous
Marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possession
Rudimentary
- Consisting in first principles FUNDAMENTAL
- Of a primitive kind
- Very imperfectly developed or represented only by a vestige
Vestige
A trace, mark, or visible sign left by something vanished or lost
Perfunctory
- Characterized by routine or superficiality
2. Lacking in interests or enthusiasm
Futility
USELESSNESS
Degeneracy
- Sexual perversion
2. Having low moral standards