Vocab Flashcards
Flit
flit v. (flits, flitting, flitted) [no obj., with adverbial of direction] move swiftly and lightly: small birds flitted about in the branches | FIGURATIVE the idea had flitted through his mind. -[no obj.] chiefly SCOTTISH & N. ENGLISH move house or leave one’s home, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations. ■ n. BRITISH INFORMAL an act of moving house or leaving one’s home, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations: moonlight flits from one insalubrious dwelling to another. Middle English (in the Scots and northern English sense): from Old Norse flytja; related to fleet5.
glowering
glower /laə/ v. [no obj.] have an angry or sullen look on one’s face; scowl: she glowered at him suspiciously | [as adj.] (glowering) his father’s glowering face. ■ n. [in sing.] an angry or sullen look. gloweringly adv. late 15th century: perhaps a Scots variant of synonymous dialect glore, or from obsolete glow ‘to stare’, both possibly of Scandinavian origin.
ajar
Slightly open
exodus
Mass departure of people
Orifice
orifice /rfs/ n. an opening, particularly one in the body such as a nostril or the anus. late Middle English: from French, from late Latin orificium, from os, or-‘mouth’ + facere ‘make’.
rendezvous
Meeting place
existential
existential /εzstεn(ə)l/ adj. relating to existence. -[PHILOSOPHY] concerned with existentialism. -[LOGIC] (of a proposition) affirming or implying the existence of a thing. existentially adv. late 17th century: from late Latin existentialis, from existentia (see EXISTENCE).
angst
Deep feeling of dread
malevolent
Having or showing a wish to do evil to others
Intrepid
intrepid adj. fearless; adventurous (often used for rhetorical or humorous effect): our intrepid reporter. intrepidity n. intrepidly adv. late 17th century: from French intrépide or Latin intrepidus, from in-‘not’ + trepidus ‘alarmed’.
plumes
Long soft feather arrangement used by humans
