Top 66 Flashcards
(66 cards)
Adept
Very skilled, able, proficient
Advocate
One who acts I support or defense of a person or cause
Aesthetic
Pertaining to what is considered beautiful or tasteful
Anachronism
Someone or something out of its correct chronological or historical order
Anecdote
A short account or story of something interesting if humorous
Apprehensive
- Uneasy, anxious, or fearful about the future
- Quick to understand or learn
Arrogance
- Overbearing pride
- On offensive display of self-importance or superiority
Boorish
- crude, coarse, oafish, insensitive
- Resembling or characteristic of a boor
Brevity
The quality of being brief in time or duration
Cathartic
Emotionally purging
Censure
- To expressing disapproval a strong or visioning session
- to criticize
Cite
To quote as an example
Commendable
Worthy of great praise or approval
Conciliatory
- Attempting to regain goodwill through pleasantness
- Overcoming hostility
- Accommodating, appeasing
Consensus
- Majority of opinion in a group
- general agreement
Consummate
- Complete or perfect in every respect
- supremely skilled
Cursory
Performed hastily and without attention to detail
Defiant
- Boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
- challenging
Depict
To represent or characterize in words, pictures, or sculpture
Deride
To ridicule
Disparage
- To speak of with disrespect
- to belittle
Disparity
- difference
- lack of equality or similarity
Eclectic
Wide variety of sources
Elaborate
Planned or executed with great care and attention