Wordly Wise 1 Flashcards
(30 cards)
bewail (verb)
to express deep regret or sorrow over
I bewailed when the party I didn’t go to ended up being fun.
- Many soccer fans bewailed over the retierment of the best footballer of all time Lionel Messi
Destitute (adj)
- Without resources or possessions,
During Well, Europe was destitue of resources. - Lacking; devoid of.
esspecially the necessities of life.
Because the potato famine in Ireland, Ireland was destitue of food
Extol (verb)
To praise highly
I was extoled when I got 100% on my test.
Detract (verb)
To take away, especially from the value, beauty or importantce of.
Todays modern houses detract from the older houses from many years ago.
emancipate (verb)
To set free from slavery; to liberate
The Emancipation Proclamation made saves free
Flamboyant (adj
Excessivly showy; unrestrained (uncontrolled or uncontrollable)
The lady’s outfit was flamboyant
impetus (noun
1.A driving force; anything that causes an action.
2. Increased activity resulting from a driving force
My low grade made me impetus to study more.
Maxim
A general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying
“You never how hard someones life is until you walk in their shoes” is a very important maxim
Insuperable
Adj: Incapable of being overcome or defeated.
I thought passing the social stuidies test was insuperable
Intermittent
adj: Not continuous; happing in intervals
I studied intermittently to be the most efficient.
obligatory
adj: Required or demanded
the constitution test is obligatory to pass
Vagabond
A person who wanders from place to place
The man was a vagabong before he setteled in a city
visage
A face, especially one that expresses feelings
You could tell the girl was sad by her visage
Plumb
1.adj vertical; straight up amd down
2 v. to measure the depth of water
The lake was too deep for us to plumb.
3.To understand by examining closely; to solve
4.To reach the deepest part of
wheedle
- v To coax by using sly persuasion or insincere praise.
He tried to wheelde his father into letting him go to a movie on a school night by complimenting him and being nice to him
2.To gain using sly persausion or in sincere praise
I wheedled the information about the test from a friend who took it earlier
Alacrity
n.1. Promptness in responding
The girl felt alacrity since she knew all the answers
- eagerness
I felt alacrity to leave school in the last minutes because it was summer break.
array
- n. A large group of poeple or things
- An orderly arrangement or display
.v to place in order - To dress up
deduce
To draw a conclusion from given facts
Sherlock Holmes deduced that jimmy was the murderer because of the stories amd facts.
encumber
1v. To weigh down or burden
I emcumbered the loss of my field hockey
2. to delay or prevent the aciton of
fraught
adj. Full of accompained by (usally followed with)
We abandond our idea of traveling the Amazon Rain forest once we learned that we would he fraught with danger
The situtitation was fraught with solutions and problems
haphazard
adj. Marked by lacked of plan, order, or direction
We workijg haphazard to set up because the concert got moved indoors.
incontrovertible
adj. Impossible to dispute; unquestionable
His statement about climate change was incontrovertible
inexplicable
Hard to explain or impossible to understand
Calculus seemed inexplicable necause of how hard it was
ingenious
adj: Marked by imagination, resourcefulness
I was ingenous with my building in the jungle