Week Twenty Three Flashcards
(5 cards)
philistine
(adj) - lacking in, hostile to, or smugly indifferent to cultural and artistic values or refinements
Synonyms: boorish, lowbrow; yahoo
refractory
(adj) - stubborn; hard or difficult to manage; not responsive to treatment or cure
Synonyms: unruly, disobedient, mulish
picaresque
() - involving or characteristic of clever rouges and adventurers
Synonyms: roguish, rascally, rakish
malleable
(adj) - able to be malleted; able to be shaped
Synonyms: pliable, adaptable, impressionable
lampoon
(noun) - a malicious satire
(adj) - to satirize or ridicule
Synonyms: burlesque; parody