4 Flashcards
Peruse
To read or examine
Pithy
Concise or meaningful
Plausible
Seemingly acceptable, believable, possible
Ponderous
Very heavy, unwieldy from weight
Potent
Powerful; having a strong effect
Prate
To talk idly or foolishly at a great rate
Precursor
Something that comes before; a forerunner
Profane
Showing contempt towards sacred things
Promontory
Land or rock projecting into water
Quaint
Unusual in character or experience
Qualm
Misgiving
Ratify
To give formal approval
Relish
To take great pleasure and delight in
Remuneration
Compensation
Requite
To make repayment or to return
Retrograde
Returning to an earlier or inferior condition
Rhapsodize
To express in an overly enthusiastic manner
Rouse
To awaken, to become active
Sanctify
To set apart for sacred use; to make holy; to purify
Scant
Barely sufficient
Scintillate
Sparkle
Sedulous
Industrious
Sovereign
Possessed of controlling power
Spurn
To reject or to refuse with hostility
Suspire
To breath; to sigh
Tantamount
Equivalent
Tempestuous
Turbulent; stormy
Tenable
Capable of being maintained in argument; rationally defensible
Tryst
A meeting, usually secret in nature
Volition
Act of determination
Wanton
Immoral, lewd
Zealot
Fanatic