5 Flashcards
1
Q
Spurious
A
Fake
2
Q
Conflated
A
Combined
3
Q
Excoriate
A
Criticised
4
Q
Impasse
A
Dead end stalemate
5
Q
Deleterious
A
Harmful
6
Q
Ingratiate
A
Get in someone’s good books
7
Q
Wanton
A
(of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked.
8
Q
Persists
A
Still there
9
Q
Perfidious
A
Unfaithful
10
Q
Endurance
A
Tolerance
11
Q
Earnest
Whenever I asked her in earnest she’d deflect my question
A
Serious
12
Q
Countenance
A
Support
13
Q
Furtively
A
Secretly
14
Q
gravitas
A
Dignity
15
Q
Ingenuous
A
Innocent
16
Q
Unvarnished
A
Straightforward
17
Q
Stroppy
A
Bad tempered
18
Q
Flummoxed
A
Baffled
19
Q
Expendable
A
Dispensable
20
Q
Extortionate
A
Exorbitant
21
Q
Crude
A
Provocative
22
Q
Intimated
A
Announced
23
Q
Tirade
A
Rant
24
Q
Paunchy
A
Protruding belly
25
Q
Colloquially
A
Informally
