Week 5 Flashcards
Rampant
Going unchecked, widespread
There is rampant crime in bad areas
Inane
Foolish
The inane students annoy me
Ethics
Code of principles
I have no ethics for myself
Concur
Agree
When I asked my mom to buy more clothes she did not concur
Clandestine
Secret, undercover
When getting a snack at night I try to be clandestine to not wake anyone up
Morals
Your personal restrictions
Degenerates have no morals
Flagrant
Outrageous, glaringly bad
The flagrant game filled us all with disappointment
Admonish
To warn, to reprove
My mom will admonish me for coming home late
Duress
Compulsion, force
The man crumbled under duress
Culprit
The guilty person
The felon tried to convince he was innocent but I knew he was the culprit
Inexorable
Inflexible, unrelenting
The inexorable avalanche destroyed many trees
Egregious
Remarkably bad
The man made egregious mistakes and lost his fans
Distraught
Mentally confused, crazed, really upset
The man was distraught after losing the game
Duplicity
Cunning, trickery
The duplicity of the thief duped all the dupes
Acrimonious
Bitter
The acrimonious comments made me frustrated
Paucity
Scarcity
There is a paucity of good horror nowadays
Elicit
To draw forth
I failed to elicit an answer from the stupid kid
Pernicious
Harmful, causing injury
The pernicious man intimidated the scared people
Tolerate
To put up with, to bear
I have had to tolerate my little brother for all my life
Construe
To make a deduction, to infer
I construed that my friend was bad at the game
Impunity
Freedom from punishment, acts as if they are
I walked by the police officer with impunity
Misconstrue
Misinterpret
I misconstrued the man yelling at the kid for yelling at me
Illicit
Illegal
The man with illicit drugs in his bag walked by the police officers with impunity
