1 Flashcards
Abridge
To shorten or diminish
Abrogate
To abolish
Afoot
Developing or in the process of happening
Anomaly
Irregularity: Straying from the Norm
Antiquated
Obsolete
Baseness
The quality of lacking higher values
Bestial
Brutal without reason, savage
Bourgeois
Pertaining to the middle class
Brazen
Shameless, insolent, disrespectful
Carnal
Marked by sexuality that is often frank and unrelieved by higher emotions
Chary
Careful, cautious
Circumscribed
Restricted or limited
Clemency
Leniency
Cognate
Related
Communal
Pertaining to a group or community
Compliance
A yielding; acquiescence
Confound
To cause one to become confused
Conjecture
An inference or conclusion drawn by guesswork
Consonance
Agreement or harmony
Convocation
An assembly where there is a coming together
Cursory
Superficial
Desultory
Disconnected, rambling
Dexterous
Skillful and active with the hands
Discord
Lack of agreement, strife, tension
Edifying
Instructing and improving spiritually or emotionally
Chide
To voice disapproval, to scold