WORDS Flashcards
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Importune
To beg, urge, or solicit persistently or troublesomely
Intransitive verb
An intransitive verb is not used with a direct object. If something comes after an intransitive verb, that is, in the position usually inhabited by the direct object, it doesn’t answer what? or whom?; instead it answers a question like where?, when?, how?, or how long?
Transitive verb
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object, which is a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase that follows the verb and completes the sentence’s meaning by indicating the person or thing that receives the action of the verb. The direct object typically answers the question what? or whom?
A transitive verb can also have an indirect object, which is a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase that comes before a direct object and indicates the person or thing that receives what is being given or done. Many common verbs can be used with both direct and indirect objects.
Ardour
- An often restless or transitory warmth of feeling
- Sexual excitement
- Extreme vigor or energy
Ridotto
A public entertainment consisting of music and dancing often in masquerade popular in 18th century England
Dissipation
An act of self-indulgence
Slovenly
- Untidy especially in personal appearance
2. Lazily slipshod
Apostates
one who commits apostasy;
an act of refusing to continue to follow, obey, or recognize a religious faith
syncretism
The combination of different forms of belief or practice
expostulate
Discuss, Examine
To reason earnestly with a person for purposes of dissuasion or remonstrance
remonstrate
To say or plead in protest, reproof, or opposition
peruse
To examine or consider with attention and in detail
To read over in an attentive or leisurely manner
sanguinary
BLOODTHIRSTY, MURDEROUS
consisting of blood
“a sanguinary stream”
sublunary
of, relating to, or characteristic of the terrestrial world
Temerity
Unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition
