1 Flashcards
Affront
verb: To offend or insult someone openly and intentionally.
① …을 모욕하다 ② 모욕 ③ 노하게 하다
Antic
adjective: Amusing, frivolous, or eccentric behavior.
Appurtenance
noun: An accompanying part or feature of something; something added to another, more important thing. (appendage)
Arras
noun: A tapestry used as a decorative wall hanging.
Behoove
verb: To be right and proper for someone.
Circumscribe
verb: To draw a line around something; to encircle; to limit narrowly; to restrict.
Conjure
verb: To summon supernatural forces; to call or bring to mind; to evoke.
Contrive
verb: To devise or plan in a creative manner; to do or accomplish something unexpected or difficult; to plot or scheme.
Expostulate
verb: To express disagreement or disapproval; to attempt to dissuade someone from doing something potentially harmful or destructive.
Extant
adjective: Still in existence.
Fetter
verb: To restrict or restrain movement or freedom.
Importune
verb: To ask someone repeatedly for something.
Jocund
adjective: Cheerful and good humor.
Judicious
adjective: Showing wisdom, good sense, or discretion. (prudent)
Lewd
adjective: Sexual in an offensive way.
Libertine
noun: Related especially to a man who acts in an immoral way and has sexual relations with many women. (rake)
Molt
verb: To shed feathers, hair, or skin.
Obsequious
adjective: Excessively eager to please; fawning or servile.
Offal
noun: Something discarded as refuse or waste; something regarded as unpalatable or even inedible.
Orison
noun: A prayer.
Peruse
verb: To read or examine something in a leisurely manner.
Portentous
adjective: Very serious and significant; foreboding or ominous, especially in terms of future events.
Precept
noun: Rules, instructions, or principles that guide a person’s actions, especially one that guides or influences moral conduct and ethical behavior.
Primal
adjective: Being first in time; original; of first importance.
Purgation
noun: Purging; to remove; purification.
Rank
noun: Status relative to others.
Retrograde
adjective: Moving backward in space or time; reverting to an earlier or inferior condition.
Sully
verb: To spoil, tarnish, or distract from something, especially someone’s reputation; to make something dirty; to taint. (traduce)
Surmise
verb: To infer or hypothesize without sufficiently conclusive evidence.
Tenable
adjective: With reasonable and sufficient evidence to support and an assertion or an argument.
Traduce
verb: To cause humiliation or disgrace to someone, usually to their reputation; to make malicious and false statements. (sully)
Usurp
verb: To take possession without permission, legal claim, or right; to appropriate.
Wanton
adjective: Done without restraint or inhibition; without reason or provocation; gratuitously cruel; merciless.
Wax
verb: To assume a particular or emotional state; to increase in size, power, or intensity.
Wont
adjective: Accustomed or likely to do something.
