100 Hard Repeat Offenders Flashcards
Abstruse
Hard to understand
Ameliorate
To make better
Adulation
Excessive admiration
Alacrity
Liveliness and eagerness
Anachronistic
Out of chronological order
Arboreal
Relating to trees
Assiduous
Constant and attentive
Auspicious
Favorable; fortunate
Austere
- Strict; disciplined; serious
2. Simple; undecorated
Avarice
Extreme greed for material wealth
Banal
Repeated too often
Bombast
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Castigate
To criticize or punish severely
Cataclysm
A violent upheavel
Cathartic
Inducing a release of tense emotions
Clandestine
Secret
Conflagration
A destructive fire
Conscientious
Characterized by extreme care and great effort
Contrite
Feeling guilty and remorseful
Dalliance
Deliberate act or delaying and playing instead of working
Decorous
Proper and dignified
Deleterious
Harmful
Denigrate
To damage the reputation of
Didactic
Educational
Dilatory
Intending to delay
Disseminate
To spread widely
Ebullient
Extremely excited or enthusiastic
Eclectic
Made up of choices from diverse sources
Efficacious
Effective
Eminent
Distinguished and prominent
Empirical
Resulting from an experiment
Enervated
Lacking strength or vigor
Enigma
A Puzzle
Equanimity
Steadiness if mind under stress
Equivocate
To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold info
Esoteric
Intended for a select group of people; secret or confidential
Espouse
To adopt or marry (such as an idea or cause)
Evanescent
Vanishing
Exonerate
To clear from blame
Exorbitant
Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation