Sentece Cmpletion Flashcards
(38 cards)
Fossilized
to make outmoded, rigid, or fixed
antediluvian-fossil
Realign
Change or restore to a different or former position or state
they worked to relieve his shoulder pain and realign the joint
Change one’s position or attitude with regard to (a person, organization, or cause)
he wished to realign himself with Bagehot’s more pessimistic position
Baneful
adverse, bad, baleful,nocuous, noxious, pernicious
Obtuse
Blunt, dull
imposing
: impressive in size, bearing, dignity, or grandeur
august, distingué, dignified, imposing, portly, solemn, staid, stately
Perspicacious
Shrewd
Synonyms
Synonyms: assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, stiff-necked, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity
Maverick
an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party
Interloper
an illegal or unlicensed trader ;
one that intrudes in a place or sphere of activity
Patent
Evident
Eradicate
Exterminate
1 : to pull up by the roots
2 : to do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots
prevalent
Powerful, dominant, widespread;
conventional, customary, going, popular, prevailing, current, standard, stock, usual
Disingenuous
: lacking in candor; also : giving a false appearance of simple frankness : calculating
Tossing
Uc
Virtue
Uc
Posterity
Uc
Convoluted
Uc
Tempered
Uc
Condenscension
1 : voluntary descent from one’s rank or dignity in relations with an inferior
2 : patronizing attitude or behavior
Patronize
provide aid or support for;
treat haughtily or coolly;
to be a frequent or regular customer or client of
Dismay
1 : to cause to lose courage or resolution (as because of alarm or fear)
2 : upset, perturb
Brooded
Uc
Unpeg
Uc
Fretful
Uc-restless
