12 Rules For Life Flashcards
Ambivalent
Contradictory
Unchaperoned
Without being supervised
Lilt
Accented.
Gentle and pleasant rising and falling sound in a person’s voice.
Suffuse
Spread completely through or over something. (Filled)
Starchy
Lacking humor.
Behaving in a formal way and without humor.
Acquaintance
A person that you have met but do not know well
Preen
Spend time making you look attractive.
Dull
Not interesting or exciting in any way.
Boring
Idling speed
Régimen de ralentí:
Mínimo de rpm de un motor de combustión.
El motor está encendido pero no en movimiento, como cuando dejamos el coche parado pero tenemos la llave echada y el motor encendido
Neigh
A long, loud, high call that is produced by a horse when it is excited or frightened.
Wag
(Especially of a tail or finger) to move from side to side or up-and-down specially quickly and repeatedly or to cause this to happen.
Banter
Conversation that is funny and not serious
Hinterland
The land behind Coast or the Banks or a river or an area of the country that is far away from the cities.
To gut a house
To remove the inside parts and contents of a building, usually so that it can be decorated in a completely new way.
Purport
To pretend to be or to do something, especially in a way that is not easy to believe.
Apparent.
Hubris
A way of talking or behaving that is too proud.
Contraption
An awkward or old-fashioned looking device or machine.
Outlier
A person, thing, or the fact that it’s very different from other people, thanks, all facts, so that it can be used to draw general conclusions.
Atipico, destacado, excepcional.
Archetypal
Typical of an original thing from which others are copied.
Dimwitted
Simple
Simple minded
Happenstance
Chance or a chance situation, especially one producing a good result.
Paramount
More important than anything else
Apalling
Very bad.
Shocking and very bad.
Epoch
A long period of time, especially one in which they are new developments and great change.
Proclivity
The fact that someone likes something or likes to do something, especially something considered morally wrong.
Endowment
Some thing that you have from birth, often a quality.
A gift of money that will provide an income for a college or university, hospital, or other organization.
Hobble
To limit something or control the freedom of someone.
Cloak
To cover or height something.
Deceive
First-rate someone that something falls is the truth, or to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage.
To persuade someone that’s something falls is the truth; trick or fool.
Convey
To express a thought, feeling, or idea that it is understood by other people.
To express feelings, thoughts, or information to other people.
Obliterate
To remove all signs of something, either by destroying it or by covering it so that it cannot be seen.
To make an idea or feeling disappear completely.
To remove all science of something; destroy.
Stultify
To prevent something from developing, or prevent someone from developing new ideas.
Brink
The point where a new, different, or did your situation is about to begin.
The edge of a cliff or other high area, or the point at which something good or bad will happen.
Musings
Your thoughts or comments on something you have been thinking about carefully and for a long time
Cudgel
A short, heavy stick used for hitting people
Embroil
To cause someone to become involved in an argument or a difficult situation
Inordinate
Much more than usual or expected.
Unreasonably or unusually large in size or degree.
Constituent
One of the parts that a substance or combination is made of.
Midst
Middle
Apropos
Suitable in a particular situation or at a particular time
Tame
Not wild or dangerous, either naturally or because of training or long involvement with humans
If an entertainment is tame, it is not very exciting.
Beckon
To move your hand or head in a way that tells someone to come nearer.
If something beckons, it attracts people.
If an event or achievement beckons, it is likely to happen.
Prey
An animal that is hunted and killed for food by another animal
Slavish
Completely obedient.
Pitfalls
A likely mistake or problem in a situation.
Unbridled
Not controlled or limited.
Pertain
To relate to or have a connection with something.
Burden
A heavy load that you carry.
Something difficult or unpleasant that you have to deal with or worry about.
Aggrieved
Unhappy, hurt, and angry because of unfair treatment.
Scavenge
To look for or get food or other objects in other people’s rubbish.
to search for and collect unwanted food or objects, or of animals or birds to feed on decaying flesh.
Wren
A very small, brown bird.
Clumsy
A clumsy person often has accidents because they do not behave in a careful, controlled way.
Awkward in movement or manner.
Something that is clumsy is too big or complicated to be dealt with easily.
Perch
To sit on or near the edge of something.
A seat or other place high up, often giving a good view of something below.
Wretch
A person who experiences something unpleasant.
Someone who has suffered a lot and deserves sympathy.
Latter
Near or towards the end of something.
The second of two people, things, or groups previously mentioned
Squabble
An argument over something that is not important.
To argue over something that is not important.
A disagreement, often about an unimportant matter.
Endemic
Especially of a disease or a condition, regularly found and very common among a particular group or in a particular area.
Found particularly in a specific area or group
Scuttle
To move quickly, with small, short steps, especially in order to escape.
Startle
To do something unexpected that surprises and sometimes worries a person or animal.
To surprise a person or animal.
Moult
To lose feathers, skin, or hair as a natural process at a particular time of year so that new feathers, skin, or hair can grow
Dart
To move quickly or suddenly.
Burrow
A hole in the ground dug by an animal such as a rabbit, especially to live in.
Detritus
Waste material or rubbish, especially left after a particular event
Ensconced
Positioned safely or comfortably somewhere
Ensuing
Happening after something and because of it
Fray
To become or to cause the threads in cloth or rope to become slightly separated, forming loose threads at the edge or end.
If your temper frays or your nerves fray, you gradually become upset or annoyed.
An energetic and often not well-organized effort, activity, fight, or disagreement.
Kinship
The relationship between members of the same family.
A feeling of being close or similar to other people or things.
Cringe
To suddenly move away from someone or something because you are frightened.
To feel very embarrassed.
To cringe is also to pull back in fear from someone or something that seems powerful and dangerous
Strutting
Walking in a proud way trying to look important.
Drooping
Bending or hanging down heavily.
Staggering
Very shocking and surprising.
Tally
To match or agree with something else.
A record or count of a number of things/items.
Fractious
Easily upset or annoyed, and often complaining.
Tending to argue, fight, or complain, and hard to control.
Berth
A bed in a boat, train, etc., or a place for a ship or boat to stay in a port.
If a ship or boat berths or if you berth it somewhere, it is tied up and stays in that place.
Roust
Cause to get up or start moving; rouse.
Treat roughly; harass.
Sheer
Used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; nothing except.
Extremely steep; almost vertical.
Sheer clothing or material is so thin, light, and delicate that you can see through it.
To change direction suddenly.
Not mixed with anything else; pure or complete.
(Of size or weight) very large.
Buttress
A structure made of stone or brick that sticks out from and supports a wall of a building.
To make support for an idea or argument stronger by providing a good reason for it.
Prowess
Great ability or skill.
Suffice
To be enough.
Ploy
Something that is done or said in order to get an advantage, often dishonestly.
Receptacle
A container used for storing or putting objects in.
Disrobe
To remove your clothes, especially an outer or formal piece of clothing worn for ceremonies
Laden
Carrying or holding a lot of something.
Truism
A statement that is so obviously true that it is almost not worth saying.
Eon
A period of time that is so long that it cannot be measured.
Lurking
To wait or move in a secret way so that you cannot be seen, especially because you are about to attack someone or do something wrong.
(Of an unpleasant feeling or quality) to exist although it is not always noticeable.
(INTERNET & TELECOMS) to spend time in a chat room or on a social media website and read what other people have posted (= written or added) without posting anything yourself.
Posit
To suggest something as a basic fact or principle from which a further idea is formed or developed.
Albeit
Although.
Vie
To compete with other people to achieve or get something.
Mourn
To feel or express great sadness, especially because of someone’s death.
Rung
A position in an organization or system with many levels.
Fringe
The outer or less important part of an area, group, or activity.
Ensue
To happen after something else, especially as a result of it.
Howling
(Of the wind) blowing hard and making a lot of noise.
(Of a dog or wolf) making a loud, sad sound.
(Of people) making a lot of noise.
(Mainly UK) used to emphasize that something is very good or bad.
Squeal
To make a long, very high sound or cry.
To complain about something loudly.
(slang) to give the authorities information about people you know who have committed crimes or done something wrong
Exhilarating
Making you feel very excited and happy.
Stave off
To stop something bad from happening, or to keep an unwanted situation or person away, usually temporarily.
Forestall
To prevent something from happening by acting first
Grief
Very great sadness, especially at the death of someone.
Stricken
Suffering severely from the effects of something unpleasant.
Burdensome
Causing difficulties or work.
Crouch
To bend your knees and lower yourself so that you are close to the ground and leaning forward slightly.
Extant
Used to refer to something very old that is still existing.
Mayhem
Havoc, a situation in which there is little or no order or control.
Strife
Violent or angry disagreement.
Muster
To produce or encourage something such as an emotion or support.
A group of people, especially soldiers, who have been brought together.
Axiom
A statement or principle that is generally accepted to be true, but need not be so.
(SCIENCE) A formal statement or principle in mathematics, science, etc., from which other statements can be obtained.
Retool
To organize something in a new or different way in order to improve it.
Stark
Empty, simple, or obvious, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary.
Completely or extremely.
Cement
To make something such as an agreement or friendship stronger.
Hoard
To collect large amounts of something and keep it for yourself, often in a secret place.
To keep a large number of things that are not needed or have no value, because you are suffering from a mental condition.
A large amount of something that someone has saved and hidden.
Proffer
To offer something by holding it out, or to offer advice or an opinion.
Beleaguered
Having a lot of problems or difficulties.
Beset
Having a lot of trouble with something, or having to deal with a lot of something that causes problems.
Hurt or troubled by something bad.
Forebears
A relative who lived in the past.
Akin
Having some of the same qualities.
Insofar
To the degree that.
Hearth
A home, especially when seen as a place of comfort and love.
Stultification
To prevent something from developing, or prevent someone from developing new ideas.
Despair
the feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation.
Audited
To make an official examination of the accounts of a business and produce a report.
To mug
To attack a person in a public place and steal their money
Deceit
(An act of) keeping the truth hidden, especially to get an advantage.
Subjugation
To defeat people or a country and rule them in a way that allows them no freedom
Oft
(Often).
Visage
The face.
Infer
To form an opinion or guess that something is true because of the information that you have.
Happenstance
Chance or a chance situation, especially one producing a good result.
