Vocabulary Unit 14 Flashcards
(20 cards)
What means a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce?
Armistice
What means to make larger, greater, or stronger; enlarge; extend?
Amplify
What means to making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud?
Arrogant
What means lacking in special interest, liveliness, individuality, etc.; insipid; dull?
Bland
What means to deny or repudiate interest in or connection with; disavow; disown?
Disclaim
What means a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events?
Epoch
What means to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of?
Estrange
What means to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings?
Gratify
What means unbounded or unlimited; boundless; endless?
Infinite
What means easily angered; agitated; simply irritated?
Irascible
What means a person’s relatives, family,or friends.
Kindred
What means having or showing unaffected simplicity of nature or absence of artificiality; unsophisticated; ingenuous?
Naïve
What means an ornamental recess in a wall or the like, usually semicircular in plan and arched?
Niche
What means to blot out or render undecipherable; efface?
Obliterate
What means loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky?
Ramshackle
What means to search thoroughly or vigorously through?
Ransack
What means routine; a fixed, habitual, or mechanical course of procedure?
Rote
What means able to pay all just debts?
Solvent
What means wordy so as to cause weariness or boredom, as a speaker or writer; prolix?
Tedious
What means a person or agency that sells?
Vendor
