Voca 3 Flashcards
ominously
qui ne présage rien de bon
“I went into the kitchen and found him lying ominously still on the floor.
“I’m waiting,” Evelyn said ominously.”
Providential
happening exactly when needed but without being planned:
“a providential opportunity”
mundane
very ordinary and therefore not interesting:
prescient
knowing or suggesting correctly what will happen in the future:
a prescient warning
effusive
expressing welcome, approval, or pleasure in a way that shows very strong feeling:
“They gave us such an effusive welcome it was quite embarrassing.”
Obsequious
too eager to praise or obey someone:
too eager to praise or obey someone
“She is embarrassingly obsequious to anyone in authority.”
dogged
Someone who’s dogged is stubbornly persistent.
In the old Looney Tunes cartoons, Wile E. Coyote’s pursuit of the Road Runner is dogged. He simply will not give up.
sycophancy
behaviour in which someone praises powerful or rich people in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them:
“The cosy sycophancy toward Smith was unbearable.”
dismay
Désaroi,a feeling of unhappiness and disappointment:
Aid workers were said to have been filled with dismay by the appalling conditions that the refugees were living in.
Confound
to CONFUSEand very much surprise someone, so that they are unable to explain or deal with a situation:
An elderly man from Hull has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officially declared dead.
The singer confounded her critics with a remarkable follow-up album.
Confounding
surprising
Uncouth
Grossier
Affluent
having a lot of money
Screed
Long speech against
Impugn
To impugn means to call into question or attack as wrong.
Tremulous
Tremblant, frémissant
Coltish
Playful, folâtre
cumbersome
difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight
2:not elegant or graceful in expression
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