Vocabulary Words Flashcards
(26 cards)
IMPUNITY
n. Freedom from penalty or harm.
PRECLUDE
v. To make impossible, especially by taking action in advance
IMMOLATION
n. Death or destruction.
ABSCORD
v. To go away suddenly and secretly
REPOSE
v. To lie dead or at rest
TERMINATION
n. An end, limit, or edge
SUBSIDE
v. To decrease in amount or intensity; settle down
APERTURE
n. An opening, such as a hole or a gap
IMMINENT
adj. about to occur
INFALLIBILITY
n. an inability to make errors
DOGGEDNESS
n. persistence;stubbornness
REITERATE
v. to repeat
PRECARIOUSLY
adv. insecurely, in a dangerous or unstable way
EXOTIC
adj. excitingly strange
EVANESCE
v. to disappear, vanish
HERESY
n. an action or opinion contrary to what is generally thought of as right.
INAUGURATE
v. to make a formal beginning of
EXHILARATE
v. to make merry or lively
PARAPHERNALIA
n. the articles needed for a particular event or activity
SQUANDER
v. to spend or use wastefully
PROSAIC
adj. dull; commonplace
SUFFUSE
v. to gradually spread through or over
POTENT
adj. powerful
GOAD
v. to drive or urge