Reading Flashcards
(31 cards)
Unpropitious
Unfavourable
Propensity
Natural tendency to behave in a certain way
Profligacy
Extreme wastefulness in terms of resources
Unwearied
Not becoming tired
Eminence
Fame or recognized superiority
Irksome
Irritating
Endeavour
Try hard to do or achieve something
Mendacity
Tendency to be untruthful
Presage
A foreboding (predicting feeling) of what is about to come
Vociferous
Conspicuously and offensively loud
Solace
To give comfort
Insidious
Sky and harmful
Entreaty
Ernest or urgent request
Supplicate
Ask humbly
Spurned
Reject with contempt
Abhorrent
Offensive to the mind
Beseech
Ask earnestly
Perpetrate
Perform an act with a negative connotation
Replete
Fill(Ed) to satisfaction
Infringe
Go against the rules
Asylum
Shelter from danger
Peremptory
Insisting on immediate action or obedience.
“Just do it!” came the peremptory reply.
Demure
Reserved and modest
Perfidious
Deceitful and untrustworthy