Vocab - Set 7 Flashcards
(100 cards)
1
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officious
Barron’s 333
A
intruding, intrusive, meddling
2
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ossify
A
become rigid or fixed
3
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overweening
A
overconfident, conceited, cocky
4
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palaver
A
chatter, babble
5
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palimpsest
A
something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form
6
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panacea
A
cure of something, elixir
7
Q
panegyric
A
eulogy
8
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paragon
A
ideal, exemplar
9
Q
parvenu
A
newly rich person
10
Q
patent
adjective
A
obvious
11
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pecuniary
A
relating to money, banking, or investments
12
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pellucid
A
crystal clear
13
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penurious
A
extremely poor
or
miser with money
14
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percipient
A
being perceptive
15
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peremptory
A
authoritative, dictatorial
16
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perfunctory
Barron’s 333
A
cursory, carried out without real interest, feeling, or effort
17
Q
peripatetic
A
travel by foot
18
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perspicacious
A
ability to notice and understand things that are difficult
19
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phantasmagorical
A
delusional
20
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philistine
A
materialist
21
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phlegmatic
Barron’s 333
A
emotionless
22
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picayune
A
petty/of little significance
“the picayune squabbling of party politicians”
or
narrow-minded, illiberal
23
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pillory
A
harshly criticize
24
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pith
A
most important part of something
25
plucky
courageous, heroic
26
Pollyannaish
unrealistically optimistic
27
ponderous
dull
or
slow because of large weight
28
pontificate
harangue, express one's opinions in a pompous and dogmatic way
29
portentous
ominous
or
pompous
or
amazing, prodigous
30
precipitate
hasty
or
aftermath of something
31
presentiment
premonition
32
primacy
state of being above others in rank or importance
33
probity
Barron's 333
honesty, integrity, morality
34
prognostication
forecasting, foretelling, predicting
35
prolixity
the state or quality of being unnecessarily or tediously wordy
36
promulgate
1. to spread/promote idea/belief
2. to enforce a law/regulation
37
propitiate
Barron's 333
mollify, pacify someone
38
prosaic
average, common
"the masses were too preoccupied by prosaic day-to-day concerns"
OR
unimaginative, uninspired
"prosaic language can't convey the experience"
39
proscribe
Barron's 333
forbid, prohibit
40
proselytize
persuade someone to convert to diff faith
41
protean
tending or able to change frequently or easily.
"it is difficult to comprehend the whole of this protean subject"
OR
able to do many different things; versatile.
"protean thinkers who scan the horizons of work and society"
42
provident
economical
or
perceptive, careful about future
43
puerile
juvenile, kiddish
44
puissant
influential, powerful
45
punctilious
meticulous
46
pyrrhic
won but at too great a cost
47
quail
draw back in submission
48
quisling
backstabber, betrayer
49
quixotic
extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.
"a vast and perhaps quixotic project"
50
raconteur
amusing storyteller
51
raillery
good-natured teasing
52
rapprochement
communion, fellowship
53
rarefied
Barron's 333
understood or experienced by only a very small group of people who share a particular field of activity or knowledge, esoteric
or
places with less oxygen
54
recapitulation
summarizing something and restating its main points
55
recrimination
incrimination, accusation, complaint
56
recrudesce
reopen, restart, resume
57
redoubtable
daunting, formidable
58
remonstrate
object, protest
59
reprisal
compensation, penalty
or
retaliation
60
ribald
lewd, vulgar, indecent
61
sagacious
wise, prudent
62
sangfroid
composure, cool, coolness
63
sardonic
sarcastic and snarky
64
sartorial
relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress
65
saturnine
dreary, gloomy
66
schadenfreude
pleasure at someone else's expense
67
sedulous
dedicatedly trying again and again
68
effacing
erase, to make something disappear; to remove something
self-effacing - be modest, discreet, humble, unassuming
69
semblance
fake/deceptive and insincere behavior
70
sententious
be too moralistic in pompous, too preachy way "holier than thou" attitude
71
simulacrum
an image or representation of someone or something
"a small-scale simulacrum of a skyscraper"
OR
an unsatisfactory imitation or substitute
"a bland simulacrum of American soul music"
72
sinecure
a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit
73
solecism
improper remark
74
solicitous
Barron's 333
1 : showing attentive care or protectiveness : manifesting or expressing solicitude - eager/ eager to help / attentive
2 : full of concern or fears : apprehensive
3 : meticulously careful
75
solicitude
Same as solicitous
anxiousness
or
carefulness of something
76
spartan
austere, lack of comfort and luxury
77
splenetic
ill-tempered
78
squelch
crush something
79
stalwart
fearless, lionhearted
80
stultify
cause to lose enthusiasm and initiative, especially as a result of a tedious or restrictive routine
81
subterfuge
trickery, artfulness
82
supercilious
arrogant
83
surfeit
overabundance
84
surreptitious
behind-the-scenes, underhanded action
85
sybarite
hedonist, playboy, pleasure seeker
He was not used to travelling on omnibuses, being something of a Sybarite who spared nothing to ensure his own comfort.
86
temerity
shameless boldness
87
tempestuous
explosive or tumultuous, turbulent
88
tendentious
intending to promote a controversial cause or point of view
89
transmute
transform
90
trenchant
sharp, incisive, pointed, keen
91
truculence/ truculent
Barron's 333
inclination to fight
or
willingness to cause pain and harm/ insult
92
turgid
bloated, swollen
93
turpitude
sinking to a state of immorality
94
tyro
beginner
95
umbrage
offended/annoyed
96
unassailable
indisputable (rights?), irrefutable
97
unflappable
unshakable, cool headed
98
unimpeachable
principled, respectable, righteous
99
unprepossessing
unpleasant, unappealing
100
unpropitious
unfavorable
