Vocab 14 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Cleave
To cut or split open, to cling to
Annex
To add to, incorporate, attachment
Cordial
In a friendly manner, hearty; cheery
Cornerstone
Starting point of a building a fundamental principle
Debacle
An overwhelming defeat, rout a complete collapse or failure
Devitalize
To make weak or lifeless
Embroil
To involve in a conflict or difficulty: to throw into confusion
Exonerate
To clear from a charge or accusation
Glib
Ready and fluent in speech: thoughtless, insincere
Haphazard
By chance not planed lacking in order
Improvise
To compose or perform without preparation
Incite
To rouse, stir up, urge on
Influx
A coming in inflow
Pallor
An extreme or unnatural paleness
Pedigree
A list of ancestors
Precipitous
Very steep
Profuse
Profuse
Reconcile
To restore to friendship, to settle: to resign
Shackles
To put into chains
Threadbare
Shabby old and worn