TC_SE_practice_words_3_reverse Flashcards
verb: to persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do:
example: The court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.
coerce
Mettlesome means full of spirit, courage, or determination.
mettlesome
adj: relating to a person’s own country:
adj: belonging or relating to the home, house, or family:
noun: a fight or attack that happens in a home between people who know each other:
domestic
noun: a person or thing that is similar to an earlier type:
example: He’s an unappealing throwback to the days of 80s City slickers.
throwback
noun: a person who is a perfect example of something:
example: She played a character who was the personification of evil.
noun: the act of giving a human quality or characteristic to something which is not human, or an example of this:
example: In the scriptures, there is a very strong personification of wisdom as feminine.
personification
noun: (a way of) being saved from danger, loss, or harm:
example: After the diagnosis, getting to know Mary was his salvation.
salvation
If you become inured to something unpleasant, you become familiar with it and able to accept and bear it:
example: After spending some time on the island they became inured to the hardships.
inured
noun: (the quality of often having) a sudden and usually silly wish to have or do something, or a sudden and silly change of mind or behaviour:
example: The $300 million palace was built to satisfy the caprice of one man.
caprices
verb: to weigh someone or something down, or to make it difficult for someone to do something:
example: Today, thankfully, women tennis players are not encumbered with/by long, heavy skirts and high-necked blouses.
encumbering
verb: to kill all the animals or people in a particular place or of a particular type:
example: Once cockroaches get into a building, it’s very difficult to exterminate them.
exterminated
adj: A conniving person deceives others for their own advantage:
example: He’s a conniving bastard!
conniving
noun: a particular system of religious belief:
example: The Roman cult of Mithras admitted only men.
cult of something
adj: helping people and doing good acts:
example: a beneficent aunt
beneficent
verb: to have an equal but opposite effect on something so that it does not have too much of a particular characteristic:
noun: something that has an equal but opposite effect on something so that it does not have too much of a particular characteristic:
counterbalancing
verb: To rehabilitate someone who has been ill or in prison means to help them to live a normal life again. To rehabilitate someone who has a drug or alcohol problem means to help them stop using drugs or alcohol.
verb: To rehabilitate a building or an area means to improve its condition so that it can be used again.
rehabilitative
adj: A flagged path or area of ground is covered with large, flat, square pieces of stone.
flagged
adj: extremely interesting:
example: It was a riveting story.
riveting
noun: the quality or state of being universal (= existing everywhere, or involving everyone):
example: She wrote about the universality of the themes of world mythology.
universality
verb: to do something that a law or rule does not allow, or to break a law or rule:
example: The company knew its actions contravened international law.
contravene
adj: not limited by rules or any other controlling influence:
example: Poets are unfettered by the normal rules of sentence structure.
unfettered
not measured, counted, or clearly known:
example: An indeterminate number of workers have already been exposed to the danger.
indeterminate
adj: not able to be understood:
He muttered something unintelligible.
unintelligible
verb: to lose strength or purpose and stop, or almost stop:
example;
The dinner party conversation faltered for a moment.
falters
verb: to make feelings, especially of excitement or enjoyment, less strong:
example: Nothing you can say will dampen her enthusiasm.
dampen
