Words of the Day Flashcards
(24 cards)
Comeuppance
Deserved punishment or fate
Inaudible
Unable to be heard
Dismiss
Order or allow to leave; send away
Unsubscribe
Cancel a subscription to an electronic mailing list or online service
Transport
Take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another
Predict
Say or estimate that a specified thing will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something
Remit
Send money as in payment or gift
Climax
Turning point right before the most intense part of a story
Unreliable Narrator
When a story’s narrator cannot be trusted. They can be unreliable for purposeful dishonesty, mental illness, or self deception
Curiosity
A strong desire to know or learn something
A strange or unusual object or fact
Sustenance
Food or drink regarded as a source of strength, nourishment
Idiom
A common phrase with a meaning that can’t be understood by looking at its individual words
Confuddled
In the state of extreme confusion, especially unable to solve a frustrating problem
Fortifications
A defensive wall or other reinforcement built to strengthen a placed against
Beseech
Ask someone urgently and fever to do something implore to beg
Insolent/insolence
Showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect
Melancholy
A feeling of intense sadness
Encounter
Unexpectedly experienced or be faced with something difficult or hostile
Ominous
Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen
Offer
Present something for someone to accept or reject as desired
Foreboding
Implying that something bad is going to happen
Malice
The intention or desire to do evil; ill will
Sinister
The impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen
Empathy
The ability to understand and share the feelings of another
