Word List 3 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Something one hopes to achieve
Aspire
To make hostile, to cause to feel unwelcomed
Aleinate
To give birth to
Beget
To talk nonsensically
Blather
Slingshot
Catapult
A fortress overlooking a city
Citadel
Pleasant to be around
Congenial
General agreement
Consensus
Cowardly
Craven
To lessen by cutting away
Curtail
A period or condition of depression or inactivity
Doldrums
To put in a rage
Enrage
To make easier
Facilitate
A long narrow inlet from sea between hills
Fjord
The distance around something
Girth
One who has a unhealthy capacity for something
Glutton
Overly dramatic
Histrionic
Weariness
Lassitude
One who pretends suffering to gain sympathy
Martyr
Environment or surroundings
Milieu
A way or method of doing something
Mode
To gather up
Muster
Block headed or slow in comprehension
Obtuse
Unreasonable anxiety
Paranoia