Words - June 15 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Epitome
Equivocal
Espouse
Estrange
Evanescent
Epitome (n) - a perfect or worthy example of someone or something
Equivocal (adj.) - ambiguous, it can be what one says or something to interpret is ambiguous
Espouse (v) - adopt, embrace - a cause, belief, a way of life,a spouse, marrying
Estrange (v) - cause to separate someone from friendly terms, no longer living with spouse, make them a stranger to yourself
Evanescent (adj.), Evanesce (v) - fleeting, vanishing, temporary, short-lived, fading
Extrinsic
Exult
Facetious
Facile
Rectitude
Extrinsic (adj.) - external, coming from outside, not
Part of essential nature of someone or something
Exult (v) - show, express elation, jubilation
Facetious (adj.) - humour, treating serious issues with inappropriate humour, witty, sarcastic
Facile (adj.) - achieved easily, shallow, uncomplicated, superficial
Rectitude (n) - righteousness, morally correct behaviour or thinking
Crucible
Ingenue
Cadge
Flout
Ennui
Crucible (n) - a metal or ceramic contained in which metal or other such stances are heated at high temperature or melted; a severe station or test, where different elements interact to form something new, a conflict takes place producing something new
Ingenue (n) - naive, unsophisticated young woman.
Cadge (v with obj.) - beg, ask, obtain (something to which one is strictly not entitled to)
Flout (v) - openly disregard ( a law, rule or convention); mock, scuffle
Ennui (n) - feeling is listlessness, boredom, dissatisfaction due to lack of occupation or excitement
Urbanity
Vicissitude
Hubris
Fallow
Fatuous
Urbanity (n) - courteous, elegance and refinement of
Manner, urban life.
Vicissitude (n) - alteration, changing, fluctuation, especially unexpected ones
Hubris (adj.) - excessive pride or arrogance
Fallow (adj.) - land which ploughed and harrowed but not sown to increase fertility; inactive period, unproductive, undeveloped
Fatuous (adj.) - silly, pointless, foolish, inane
Fetter
Garrulous
Glib
Germane
Gauche
Fetter (n, v) - restrain, constrain
Garrulous (adj.) - excessive talkative mostly about trivial matter
Glib (adj.) - fluent but insincere and shallow, smooth talking without constrain sometimes too informal to the point of rude.
Germane (adj.) - relevant to the point in consideration
Gauche (adj.) - socially awkward, unsophisticated, not well mannered
Glutton
Grandiloquent
Gratuitous
Gregarious
Hyperbole
Glutton (n) - excessive greedy eater, person excessively fond of something
Grandiloquent (adj.) - pompous, extravagant language, style, manner to impress
Gratuitous (adj.) - unwarranted, unnecessary, done for free, uncalled, not required
Gregarious (adj.) - outgoing, sociable, friendly, living or fond of community
Hyperbole (n) - exaggeration, exaggerated statements or claims not to be taken seriously
Iconoclast
Idiosyncrasy
Idyll
Immutable
Imperious
Iconoclast (n) - one who challenges generally
Accepted beliefs & traditions.
Idiosyncrasy (n) - unusual habits of characteristics of individual, peculiar way of behaving.
Idyll (n) - a scene of simple and tranquil nature, a short poem about such a scene.
Immutable (adj.) - not changeable.
Imperious (adj.) - arrogant, domineering, proud.
Impetuous
Implacable
Infallible
Iniquitous
Innocuous
Impetuous (adj.) - hasty, rash, doing something so out thinking, with too much impetus
Implacable (adj.) - not able to be appeased, pacify, calm, satisfy
Infallible (adj.) - without any error, fault, mistake - effective, correct.
Iniquitous (adj.) - morally wrong, unjust, evil, grossly unfair
Innocuous (adj.) - not harmful, dangerous or offensive
Inoculate
Insular
Intractable
Laconic
Lampoon
Inoculate (v) - inject, vaccinate, introduce ideas/attitude into the mind of
Insular (adj.) - isolated, ignorant or uninterested from other people, ideas, culture outside ones own experience
Intractable (adj.) - not manageable, controlled, governed
Laconic (adj.) - short, brief, concise, direct
Lampoon (v, n) - criticise someone publicly by means of ridicule, sarcasm, irony
Latent
Lattice
Laud
Leaven
Levy
Latent (adj.) - present but hidden, not developed or manifested
Lattice (n) - interlace structure of wood or metals - which leads to gaps in between of square or diamond shape
Laud (v) - praise, glorify, extol
Leaven (v, n) - a substance typically yeast added to dough to ferment, a pervasive influence that modifies something or transform is for the better, to have a enlivening or lightning influence
Levy (v, n) - to impose (a tax, fine, few)
Mean
Meander
Medley
Melancholy
Moratorium
Mean (n, v, adj.) - to convey something, low in quality or appearance, a point between two extremes
Meander (v) - following a winding course, wander at random, proceed aimlessly or without cause
Medley (n) - a varied mixture of people or things
Melancholy (n, adj.) - a feeling of pensive sadness, sad, dejected
Moratorium (n) - a temporary suspension, prohibition of activity, an authorise period of delay or waiting
Mores
Morphology
Muse
Nascent
Nebulous
Mores (n) - accepted customs and behaviours and traditions in a particular group or place or society
Morphology (n) - study of form or shape or structure
Muse (v) - meditate in silence, absorbed in thought, reflect deeply in a subject, to gaze wonderingly
Nascent (adj.) - just coming into existence and beginning to developer signs of future potential
Nebulous (adj.) - hazy, cloudy, vague, not well defined
Nonchalant
Oscillate
Ostentatious
Overwrought
Pacific
Nonchalant (adj.) - not be worried or show tension, not be enthusiastic, feeling or appearing causally calm and relaxed
Oscillate (v) - move or swing back and forth, waver in conflicting situations
Ostentatious (adj.) - showy, pretentious, with aim to attract, impress
Overwrought (adj.) - deeply agitated, excited; too elaborate or complicated a design or construction
Pacific (adj.). Peaceful in charter or intent
Palatable
Perennial
Perfidy
Perfunctory
Pernicious
Palatable (adj.) - pleasant to taste, acceptable or satisfactory, acceptable to ones taste or mind.
Perennial (adj.) - lasting forever, recurring, endless, existing for a long time.
Perfidy (n) - state of being deceitful, untrustworthy
Perfunctory (adj.) - performing something without interest or passion, without attention to detail just for formality
Pernicious (adj.) - harmful effect especially in a gradual way.
Perspicacity
Placid
Pivotal
Pragmatic
Predilection
Perspicacity (n) - having an insight, vision, shrewdness, acumen
Placid (adj.) - calm, peaceful, not getting excited or agitated
Pivotal (adj.) - paramount, a great importance
Pragmatic (adj.) - having practical rather then theoretical consideration
Predilection (n) - having a strong likening or preference for something
Proclivity
Prodigal
Pugnacious
Probity
Quandary
Proclivity (n) - string inclination towards something
Prodigal (adj., n) - lavish, extravagant, reckless wastefulness of resources
Pugnacious (adj.) - always eager to argue, fight or quarrel
Probity (n) - quality of having strong moral principles, honesty, righteousness, integrity.
Quandary (adj.) - state of dilemma or uncertainty in difficult situations
Quash
Quibble
Rancor
Recalcitrant
Recess
Quash (v) - reject as invalid, especially by legal procedure, put an end to, suppress, to extinguish. From L. cassus - null, void. Squash (v) - cruces or squeeze with force so that it becomes flat.
Quibble (n, v) - slight objection or criticism, argue or ramie objections about trivial matter, a trivial objection. Syn - carp, cavil. From L. qui, quae, quod - who, what, which.
Rancor, Rancour (n) - bitterness or resentfulness, especially when long standing, feeling of deep and bitter anger. From L. rancor - bitterness, related to rancidus - stinking.
Recalcitrant (adj, n) - having an obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline, stubborn and defiant of authority, a person with recalcitrant attitude. From L. recalcitrant - kicking out with the heels, based on calc - heel. Resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory. hard to deal with, manage, or operate.
Recess (n, v) - a hollow space inside something, a remote, secluded or secret place, a period of time when proceedings in the parliament, committe, court of law or other official body are temporarily suspended, a break between school classes,mot suspend proceedings temporarily, an intended or hollowed out space. From L. recedere - go back. Recede (v) - go or move back further away from previous position, gradually diminish.
Redoubtable
Sagacious
Salubrious
Salutary
Satiate
Redoubtable (adj., often humorous) - (of a person) formidable, especially as an opponent, fearsome or awe-inspiring. From L. redouter - to fear, re- expressing intensive force, douter - to doubt, doubt, fear an opponent. * That is to be feared; formidable. commanding or evoking respect, reverence, or the like.
Sagacious (adj.) - having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement, wise or shrewd, insightful. From L. sagac - wise.
Salubrious (adj.), Salubrity (n) - healthy giving, healthy, health promoting, (of a place) pleasant. From L. salus - health. ( Formal ) A place that is salubrious is pleasant and healthy. …the salubrious climate of the north. ( Formal ) Something that is described as salubrious is respectable or socially desirable. …the city’s less salubrious quarters.
Salutary (adj.) - producing good effects, beneficial especially related to health (especially with reference to something unpleasant or unwelcomed). From L. salut - health. (Formal) A salutary experience is good for you, even though it may seem difficult or unpleasant at first.
Satiate (adj.) - satisfies to the full, sate. From L. satis - enough. (Formal) If something such as food or pleasure satiates you, you have all that you need or all that you want of it, often so much that you become tired of it.
Scruple
Sedentary
Sediment
Sordid
Specious
Scruple (n, v) - a hesitation or doubt regarding to morality or propriety of a course of action., an ethical or moral concern, hesitate or reluctant to do something which one may think is wrong. From L. scrupus - literally means - rough pebble, anxiety. Scruples are moral principles or beliefs that make you unwilling to do something that seems wrong. …a man with no moral scruples.
Sedentary (adj.) - of a person spending much time seated; somewhat inactive, sitting or seated, tendering to stay in the same place.
Sediment (n, v) - matter that settles to bottom of a liquid, matter deposited by some natural process, settle as sediment. From L. sedimentum - settling.
Sordid (adj.) - involving immoral or dishonourable actions and motives, immoral or unethical; dirty or rundown, squalid. From L. sordere - be dirty. (To Express Disapproval) If you describe someone’s behavior as sordid, you mean that it is immoral or dishonest. He sat with his head buried in his hands as his sordid double life was revealed. (To Express Disapproval) If you describe a place as sordid, you mean that it is dirty, unpleasant, or depressing. …the attic windows of their sordid little rooms.
Specious (adj.) - superficially plausible, but actually wrong, misleading in appearance, misleading in appearance, especially misleading attractive,deceptively pleasing. From late Middle English (in the sense beautiful) from L. speciosus - fair, from species - appearance, form, beauty, from specere - to look. Apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible: specious arguments.
Sporadic
Spurious
Squalor
Stark
Stratum
Sporadic (adj.) - occurring at irregular intervals or few places, scattered or isolated. From L. sporad - to show.
Spurious (adj.) - false, fake, not being what it purports to be, intending to deceive, not valid or genuine. From L. spurius - false.
Squalor (n) - state of being dirty and unpleasant, especially due to poverty or neglect. From L. squalere - dirty.
Stark (adj.) - complete or extreme, bare or blunt. From L. stark - strong.
Stratum (n), Strata (pl.) - a thin layer within any structure, a horizontal layer of material, a level or class to which people are assigned according to their social status, education or income, a level of society composed of people with similar social, cultural or economic status. From L. literally - something spread or laid down.
Stria
Strident
Stringent
Stymie
Succinct
Stria (n), Striae (n, pl) - a linear mark, ridge or groove especially one of a number of similar parallel features. From L. literally - furrow.
Strident (adj.) - unpleasantly loud and harsh, grating, creaking. Another term for sibilant (phonetics). From L. - creaking (make a scraping or screaming sound when being moved). Strident insects, strident hinges. * (To Express Disapproval) If you use strident to describe someone or the way they express themselves, you mean that they make their feelings or opinions known in a very strong way that perhaps makes people uncomfortable.
Stringent (adj.) - (of regulations, requirements and conditions) strict, precise and exacting (of regulations, requirements or conditions). From L. - drawing tight, to compress. (Formal) Stringent laws, rules, or conditions are very severe or are strictly controlled.
Stymie (v with obj., informal), Sytmieing, Stymied, Stymy, Stimy - prevent or hinder the progress of. From Golf - where one ball obstructs the shot of another player. Golf. (on a putting green) an instance of a ball’s lying on a direct line between the cup and the ball of an opponent about to putt. (Informal) If you are stymied by something, you find it very difficult to take action or to continue what you are doing.
Succinct (adj.) - (especially of something written or spoken) brief and clearly expressed. From L. succintus - tucked up. (To Express Approval) Something that is succinct expresses facts or ideas clearly and in few words.
