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
Exuberant
Overflowing ESP with joy
Facetious
Not intended to be taken seriously
Fastidious
Giving careful attention to detail; hard to please
Felicity
Pleasing an appropriate style
Garrulous
Excessively talkative or wordy
Gratuitous
Free; given without reason
Gregarious
Sociable
Hackneyed
Repeated too often; over familiar through overuse
Harangue
A long pompous speeh
Impervious
Not capable of being affected
Impugn
To attack as false or wrong
Incongruity
The quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
Incorrigible
Incapable of being corrected or punished
Indigenous
Native to
Ineffable
Incapable of being put into words
Innocuous
Harmless
Insipid
Bland full or uninteresting
Insolence
Rudeness
Intransigent
Refusing to yield or compromise
Juxtapose
To place side by side
Machination
A crafty plot
Magnanimous
Nobel and generous in spirit
Malevolent
Evil
Malleable
Capable of being shaped or influenced
Mendacious
Lying false or untue
Meritocracy
A form o f social system in which power goes to those with superior abilities
Morose
Gloomy
Nefarious
Extremely wicked
Obdurate
Stubborn
Obsequious
Overly flattering or obedient
Opulent
Rich and luxurious
Ostensible
Pretended
Pedagogical
Relating to education or teaching
Pedantic
Overly focused on small details while teaching or learning
Perspicacity
Intelligence manifested by being astute
Petulant
Easily irritated over small issues
Precocious
Advanced in development or maturity
Pristine
Pure clean or unused
Proliferate
To grow rapidly
Prosaic
Dull and lacking excitement
Querulous
Complaining
Quiescent
Being quiet or still or inactive
Rancorous
Showing deep seated resentment
Raucous
Unpleasantly loud and harsh
Repudiate
To reject
Repugnant
Offensive
Sagacious
Acutely insightful and wise
Sanctimonious
Being hypocritically religious or righteous
Sanguine
Confidently optimistic and cheerful
Scintillating
Brilliantly clever or flashy and exciting
Sedulous
Marked by persistent effort
Solicitous
Anxious eager or worried
Spurious
False joy legitimate
Subterfuge
Something intended to deceive
Surreptitious
Stealthily and secret
Tacit
Unspoken and implied
Tenuous
Very thin; lacking substance
Truculence
Brutal cruelty and aggressiveness
Tumultuous
Characterized by unrest commotion or agitation
Vociferous
Marked by loud outery
