#26-50 Vocab Flashcards
Dilatory
Inclined to waste time and lag behind
Disparage
To criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value them
Draught
A current of unpleasantly cold air blowing through a room
Dray
A large low carriage with four wheels pulled by horses
Dyspeptic/Dyspepsia
Always angry or easily annoyed or having indigestion
Elicit
To call forth, draw out, or provoke, to bring or draw out
Emit
To send out a beam, noise, smell or gas
Espionage
Spying, the discovering of secrets. especially political or military information of another country or the industrial information of a business
Facile
Easy, effortless
Feign
To pretend, to dissemble, to misrepresent
Fester
To become infected, to suppurate, an infection
Festoon
Draped, decorated as for a parade or state event
Fledgeling
New and inexperienced
Gainsay
Challenge, dispute
Genuflect
To bow as before a priest
Grandeur
Magnificent, splendid, vast beauty
Grudging
Done in an unwilling way, unwillingly
Hack
A reporter, artist, or writer whose work is not very good
Husband
To use something carefully so that you do not use all of it
Illicit
Contrary to accepted morality or convention
Illusory
Not real, based on illusion
Imbibe
To drink, especially alcohol
Inexorable
Without end, interminable
Introspection
Examination of and attention to your own ideas, thoughts, and feelings
Kowtow
To show too mush respect to someone in authority, always obeying them and changing what you do in order to please them, what a “toady” does, sucking up
