15 Flashcards
Acolyte
noun: A follower or an attendant.
Alloy
noun: A mixture; a composite; an amalgam; something added that lowers value or purity.
Asperity
noun: Harshness of manner; ill temper or irritability. (acrimony, aspersion).
Captivate
verb: To attract and hold by charm, charisma, beauty, intelligence, or excellence.
Commendation
noun : Something, especially an official award, ceremony, or citation, that commend or honors (kudos, homage, panegyric).
Complaisant
adjective: Exhibiting a desire or willingness to please; cheerfully obliging.
Concupiscence
noun: A strong desire, especially sexual desire; lust.
Condemnation
noun: Severe reproof; strong censure. (denunciation)
Diminution
noun: The process or act of diminishing or reducing in quantity, quality, or amount; a lessening or reduction.
Dissolute
adjective: Lacking moral restraint; indulging in sensual pleasures or vices; licentious; salacious. (licentious; reprobate).
Encroach
verb: To advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits; to advance beyond proper or formal limits.
Gerrymander
verb: To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one political party in elections.
Gesticulate
verb: To make gestures especially while speaking or moving, especially in an animated or excited manner, as for emphasis or due to excitement.
Indignation
noun: Anger aroused by something perceived as unjust, offensive, insulting, base, or unworthy.
Insensate
adjective: Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate; unconscious; lacking sensibility.
Inveigh
verb: To protest strongly or attack vehemently with words; to rail; to vituperate.
Lope
verb: To move or run with bounding steps, as a quadruped, or with a long, easy stride, as a human.
Mortify
verb: To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride; to humiliate.
Pedestrian
adjective: Lacking in vitality, imagination, or distinction; commonplace; prosaic or dull; (banal, prosaic)
Perspicacious
adjective: Having or showing forceful mental discernment and keen understanding; insightful; clear-sighted. (sagacious, judicious).
Polemic
noun: A controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine.
Preternatural
adjective: Out of or being beyond the normal course of nature; exceptional; differing profoundly from the natural; surpassing the normal or usual; extraordinary.
Proselyte
noun: A person who has changed from one opinion, religious belief, sect, or the like, to another; a convert.
Proxy
noun: A person authorized to act for, or on behalf of, another; an agent or substitute.
Pyric
adjective: Of, pertaining to, or resulting from burning.
Rankle
verb: To cause persistent irritation or resentment; to become sore or inflamed; to fester.
Rapturous
adjective: Filled with great joy or euphoria. (ecstatic).
Redoubtable
adjective: Arousing fear, dread, or alarm, awe-inspiring. (formidable, august, eminent, venerable).
Repine
verb: To be discontented, depressed, or low in spirits; to complain or fret; to yearn after something; to desire in a forlorn way.
Scurrilous
adjective: Given to or expressed in the use of vulgar, coarse, or abusive language; grossly or obscenely abusive. (vituperative, insulting, offensive)
Solicitude
noun: Care or concern for the well being of another; a cause of anxiety or concern.
Sophistry
noun: A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone; a plausible but misleading or fallacious argument; the art of deception.
Tacit
adjective: Not spoken; implied by or inferred from actions or statements; understood without being openly expressed (implicit, intimate).
Transient
adjective: Remaining in a place only a brief time (fugacious; transitory).
Turpitude
noun: A vile, shameful act or conduct; lewdness; of base or depraved character; moral depravity; a vile or depraved act.
