Vocab 5 Flashcards
(22 cards)
Acuity
Keenness of sense perception, sharpness.
Delineate
To represent by sketch or diagram
Depraved
Morally corrupt, perverted
Emend
To amend, improve, better, reform, rectify
Enervate
To weaken
Esoteric
Understood by few
Fecund
Capable of producing offspring, fertile
Fiat
Authorization or sanction
Figment
Something invented, made up, or fabricated
Garner
To accumulate or collect something
Hallow
To render holy by means of religious rites
Idiosyncrasy
A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual
Ignominy
Great personal dishonor or humiliation
Malediction
A curse
Mundane
Commonplace, ordinary
Nuance
A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind
Overweening
Presumptuously arrogant , over bearing
Penchant
A strong liking
Reputed
Considered, presumed to be
Sophistry
Resorting sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive
Sumptuous
Rich and costly
Ubiquitous
Being everywhere.
