176-200 Flashcards
aberration
disorder of the mind, wandering or going off track
lackadaisical
Listless, not interested
Punctilious
Exact detail, careful
quixotic
Idealistic, not practical, imaginary
recalcitrant
Showing stubborn opposition, unruly
cupidity
Coordinate desire, greedy
exigency
Emergency; urgency, immediate need
innocuous
Without bad effect, harmless
sycophant
Insincere, flatterer, parasite
pandiculation
Instinctive stretching as awakening and yawning
efficacy
The power to produce an effect
excoriate
to flay, to censure scathingly
bombinate
to buzz, to hum, to drone
surreptitious
secret stealthy
glower
to stare angrily or with a scowl
amity
friendship; good will
rusticate
to go into or reside in the country to require or compel, to banish
effulgence
a brightness , shining, radiation, luster
sallow
Having a sickly or yellowish color
impregnable
Unconquerable, unyielding, not to be entered
acrimonious
caustic, biting, or rancorous
desultory
jumping from subject to subject, erratic
eschew
to avoid on moral or practical ground, to shun
sequancious
proceeding smoothly and regularly, disposed to for now