Vocabulary 12 Flashcards
Chalice
A cup, especially for the wine served at holy communion
Cretonne
A have you cotton material and printed designs for drapery and slipcovers
Connive
To conspire or cooperate secretly
Cavalier
Haughty, disdainful, arrogant
Disreputable
Not reputable; having a bad reputation
Harmonium
An organ-like keyboard instrument
Reparation
The making of amends for wrong or injury done. A compensation
Garrulous
Given to excessive chatter to talkativeness
Pious
Having or showing a dutiful spirit for god or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations
Rakish
Like a dissolute or immoral man, unlawful, sexually beyond morals
Florid
Reddish, ruddy, or rosy
Implacable
Not to be appeased or pacified, unbendable, inexorable
Discomfiture
Frustration of hopes or plans
Sash
A fixed or moveable framework as in a window or door, in which panes of glass are set
Litany
A form of prayer consisting of a series of supplication with responses, a prolonged or dreary account.
