Words of the Day Flashcards
(24 cards)
Comeuppance
deserved punishment or fate
Inaudible
unable to be heard
Dismissed
order or allow to leave
Transport
take or carry from one place to another
Unsubscribe
cancel a subscription to a electronic mailing list or online service
Predict
say of estimate that something will happen in the future
Remit
send money in payment or as a gift receipt of this letter
Climax
turning point right before the most intense part of the story
Unreliable narrator
when a story’s narrator cant be trusted
Curiosity
a strong desire to know or learn something
Sustenance
food and drinks which are considered as a source of strength and nourishment
Confuddled
a state of confusion
Fortifications
The process of making something strong
Beseech
To beg for urgency or anxiously
Insolent/Insolence
Rude behavior
Melancholy
a feeling of intense sadness
Encounter
to come upon or meet with
Ominous
exhibited as omen
Foreboding
a sense of impending evil or danger
Malice
To harm or upset people
Sinister
Making you feel that something bad will happen
Offer
To present something
Emphathy
the ability to understand and share the feeling of another
Idiom
an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words