Speak Vocabulary Flashcards
(25 cards)
alleged
Accused of having done something wrong or illegal but not yet proven guilty.
Asphyxiated
to kill or make unconscious by depriving them of air.
Blather
Talk that doesn’t make much sense
Conundrum
A difficult problem
Delinquency
Bad or illegal behavior, especially by a young person.
Demerit
A mark for doing something wrong.
Demure
Quiet and well-behaved (often used to describe a girl).
dynamics
Someone who is full of energy
Errant
behaving wrongly
Faction
A group within a larger group that has different ideas and opinions than the rest of the group.
Inciting
To cause (somone) to act in an angry, harmful, or violent way.
Indoctrination
To teach (someone) to fully accept the ideas, opinions, and beliefs of a particular group and to not consider other ideas, opinions, and beliefs.
Maladjusted
Badly adjusted to the demands of a normal social environment.
Muse
It is a person or represented force that is the source of artistic inspiration for an artist.
Pseudo
Not real or genuine
Recessive
Causing or relating to a characteristic or condition that a child will have only if both of the child’s parents have it.
Sanctuary
A place where something or something is protected or given shelter.
Subjectivity
Having relation to the way a person experiences things in his or her own mind.
Submission
yielding to a superior force
Tenacious
Someone who is not easily stopped
Vespiary
A nest of social wasps. Also, a colony of wasps inhabiting such a nest.
Wan
Dark or gloomy
Wistful
Having or showing sad thoughts and feelings about something that you want to have or do and especially about something that made you happy in the past.
Xenophobic
Fear and hatred towards strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign.
