Term 1 Week 5 Flashcards
(10 cards)
Render
Show in, or as in, a picture.
For a long time, in order to create a realistic virtual reality environment, you had to render as detailed a world as possible.
Rueful
Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow.
As she passed, the woman gave a lopsided smile of rueful apology.
Subordinate
Subject or submissive to authority or the control of another.
The data showed that any baboon might start moving away from the others as if to draw them on a new course — male or female, dominant or subordinate.
Tarry
Stay longer than you should.
May the next traveler not tarry and keep moving up the line, all the way to liberty.
Transgression
The violation of a law or a duty or moral principle.
To be caught in some small transgression—missing a day of work, speaking harshly of his rule, failing to attend mass— brought an unforgiving penalty.
Adamant
Impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason.
In the face of such adamant refusal, there was no agreed plan within the administration on how to proceed.
Audacious
Disposed to venture or take risks.
Harry’s was an age that spawned bold dreams and audacious dreamers.
Concise
Expressing much in few words.
A man of few words, Mendel was even more concise in his writing: he had distilled nearly a decade’s work into forty-four spectacularly dreary pages.
Elusive
Skillful at evading capture.
New beekeepers are told that the way to find the elusive queen is by first locating her circle of attendants.
Exasperate
Make furious.
