Vocab 1 Flashcards
(19 cards)
Adjunct
Something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; An assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic; added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a facility or staff in an auxiliary captivity
Bellwether
A male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughterhouse; a leader is in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends
Caterwaul
To hollow or screech like a cat; to squirrel a harsh noise cry; a racket
Chimerical
Absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible
Effete
Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce; out of date
Fait Accompli
An accomplished and Presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action
Hidebound
Narrow minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudice; stubbornly in under thinking Lee conservative
Laissez faire
individual freedom and choice and action
Liturgy
A religious service or rite; The form of a ritual or other act of public worship
Morass
A patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand
Noisome
Offensive or disgusting; foul smelling harmful or injurious
Oblivious
Forgetful ; unaware
Poltroon
A base coward
Proselyte
A covert; a disciple
Quasi
Resembling but not actually being; seemly but not actually or completing
Raillery
Good-humored ridicule teasing
Ribald
Irreverently mocking; course, vulgar, or indecent in language
Supine
Laying flat on one’s back; listless or lethargic; apathetic or passive
Vignette
A short description or a sketch; a picture or illustration with edges that gradually shade off; a decorative design on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter
