15th July Flashcards
summit
The peak or highest point.
indict
If you accuse someone of committing an offense, you indict them.
In a legal sense, the verb indict means to bring formal charges against someone
The officer in that case was fired and charged with involuntary manslaughter, but a grand jury refused to indict him.
Months after taking office in 2019, Beck was indicted on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and filing false tax returns.
dogged
If someone describes you as dogged, they simply mean that you won’t stop until you get what you want.
These calamities were accompanied by the harrowing illnesses, surgeries, agonies, suicidal breakdowns, panics, depressions and drug-induced psychiatric dis orientations that dogged Roth for much of his life.
Throughout his life, he was dogged by insecurities that inhibited personal growth.
candid
Straightforward and truthful talk might be described with the adjective candid.
Dr. Cornel West, the liberal activist and a prominent philosopher, shared his “candid” resignation letter to Harvard University on Tuesday in which he accused the Divinity School of being in “decline and decay.
mesmerize | enthrall
You are enthralled when filled with delight and wonder at something, to the point where time seems to stand still.
He was “enthralled” with the idea and wanted to test the theory by helping the homeless community and his son during his four-week stint at the medical school.
In her girlhood, Ms. Barber recalled, she was enthralled not by Nancy Drew mysteries but rather by Fowler’s guide to modern English usage.
underwrite
To underwrite is to insure or promise to be financially responsible in case of loss or damage.
remiss
To be negligent
The principal was remiss in her duty to tell parents about the incident at school. After the parents heard about it from their kids, the principal received several angry phone calls wondering why the school had been locked down for loose farm animals.
demean
belittle someone
Related words : harangue, bemoan, disparage
reprobate
A person without moral scruples,
Deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good
Selfish, depraved, disreputable, a reprobate is not known for his inner goodness. In fact, reprobates were once considered “rejected by God,” the meaning of the noun in the 1500s.
variance
It suggests a difference or shifting away from the expected
“When we look across the United States, we see wide variance in terms of vaccination rates,” said Gottlieb
This is obviously at variance with figures from the Palestinian health ministry, which in Gaza is controlled by Hamas.
demure
A demure person can be described as polite and a little shy. A demure outfit is a modest one — think high neckline and low hem.
Her demure appearance and sweet voice belie an intellectual ferocity.
“They used demure, gorgeous women in high fashion to advertise condensed milk,” said Lippert.
embroiled
involved in argument or contention.
When you’re embroiled in something, you’re tangled or mired in it — in other words, you’re involved so completely that it’s hard to get away from it.
How did Taiwan become embroiled in Haiti’s political crisis?
That year he predicted in a memo the wars would be a “a long, hard slog” - something history proved as painfully true, with US troops still embroiled in exiting the conflicts almost two decades on.
Diabolical
Diabolical means “evil.” This is a strong word
Diabolical is a powerful term, stronger than even despicable, which is another strong word for things that are hateful.
If you got hit by lightning, that’s awful and harmful, but it’s not diabolical. If someone deliberately runs you over with a car, that’s much more diabolical.
But while the two sides didn’t agree, each was surprised to find the other not entirely diabolical.
Related words -> inimical, sullen, reprobate
voracious
Voracious is an adjective used to describe a wolf like appetite. It might be a craving for food or for something else, such as power, but the word usually denotes an unflattering greediness.
Tech workers and others able to work remotely flocked to the Southwest during the pandemic, as did manufacturing jobs, creating a voracious appetite for housing.
Hundreds of pages of Myanmar government budgets for the last two fiscal years viewed by The New York Times show a voracious appetite for the latest in military-grade surveillance technology.
fleece
You can also use fleece in an informal way to mean cheating someone.
