26 Flashcards
Adduce
verb: To cite as an example or means of proof in an argument.
Amity
noun: Peaceful relations, as between nations.
Brummagem
adjective: Showy but inferior and worthless.
Desultory
adjective: Lacking in consistency, constancy, or visible order, disconnected.
Disabuse
verb: To be corrected or apprised of a falsehood, error, fallacy, or misconception.
Epithet
noun: A term used to broadly characterized a person or thing, often in a derogatory manner.
Mete
verb: To distribute by or as if by measuring.
Milieu
noun: The totality of one’s surroundings and the conditions that affect and influence an individual.
Oeuvre
noun: The sum or totality of the lifework of an artist, writer, or composer.
Perfunctory
adjective: Done routinely and executed with little interest or care.
Peripatetic
adjective: Walking about or from place to place.
Philistine
noun: A smug, ignorant person regarded as being indifferent or antagonistic to artistic cultural values.
Picayune
adjective: Of little value or account.
Plethora
noun: An overabundance; an excess.
Pretext
noun: Something that is put forward to conceal an actual purpose, objective, or ulterior motive.
Pusillanimous
adjective: Lacking courage or resolution; cowardly.
Recrudescence
noun: To break out anew or come into renewed activity.
Rectitude
noun: Moral virtue; righteousness; principled or ethical; integrity.
Renascent
adjective: Coming again into being.
Satyr
noun: One of a class of woodland deities.
Secular
adjective: Worldly rather than spiritual.
Serendipity
noun: Making fortunate discoveries by accident or chance.
Sobriquet
noun: An affectionate or humorous nickname.
Unscrupulous
adjective: Dishonest or unprincipled.