Week 7 Flashcards
(19 cards)
1
Q
Tenacity
A
Firmness of purpose
2
Q
Soporific
A
Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep
3
Q
Lackadaisical
A
Lacking enthusiasm/determination, lazy
4
Q
Quiescent
A
Inactivity or dormancy
5
Q
Specious
A
Plausible but actually wrong
6
Q
Perspicacious
A
Insight to understanding things
7
Q
Escoteric
A
Understood by only a small number of people
8
Q
Decadent
A
Moral or cultural decline
9
Q
Deleterious
A
Casing harm or damage
10
Q
Subversive
A
Undermine power and authority
11
Q
Immutable
A
Unchanging/unable to be changed
12
Q
Penurious
A
Extremely poor
13
Q
Vacuous
A
Lack of thought/intelligence, mindless
14
Q
Modicum
A
Small quantity of a particular thing
15
Q
Confluence
A
Merging, junction of two rivers
16
Q
Sophistry
A
Using fallacy intending to deceive
17
Q
Fallacy
A
A mistaken belief, unsound argument
18
Q
Impunity
A
Exemption from punishment
19
Q
Cavalier
A
Showing lack of proper concern, offhand
