58-117 Flashcards
Demure (demurral)
Overly modest, shy
Denounce
Declare to be wrong, criticize
Depose
- Remove from power
2. Testify or give evidence (in legal context)
Deprecate (deprecating)
Disapprove of, criticize
Derivative
Not original
Derogatory (derogate)
Insulting, disrespecting
Destitute
Poor
Deter
Prevent, discourage
Detrimental
Harmful, damaging
Devoid
Lacking
Diligent (diligence)
Hard working
Diplomatic
- Having to do with foreign relations
2. Tactful, sensitive, polite
Dire
Urgent, dreadful
Discount (verb)
- Reduce in price
2. Ignore, disregard
Discourse
Discussion
Discredit
Harm someone’s reputation
Discrepancy
Difference, mismatch
Discriminating
Selective, having refined taste
Disseminate
Scatter or spread widely
Domestic
Relating to the home or the home country
Dominant
Most important o powerful
Dormant
Not active
Eclectic
From a variety of sources
Efface (effacement)
Erase
Eloquence (eloquent)
Flowing and persuasive speech or writing
Elude
Escape from, devoid
Embittered (embittered)
Cause someone to feel bitter
Empirical
Based on observation and experimentation
Encompass
Include, surround
Endorse
Approve. Support
Enigma (enigmatic)
Mystery
Equanimity
Calmness
Equitable
Fair, even-handed
Erroneous
Incorrect
Evince
Show clearly
Exacting
Demanding, having severe requirements
Exasperate
Annoy
Excise
Remove
Explicit
Fully expressed, leaving nothing implied
Exploit
- (V) benefit unfairly from something
2. (N) bold or heroic deed
Facile
- Shallow, simplistic
2. Effortless
Facilitate
Help, make easier
Faction
A small group within a larger group
Fallacy
Mistaken belief, faulty reasoning
Fastidious
Careful, painstaking
Fathom
- (v) understand
2. A unit of depth, usually measuring water
Flag
- (V) point out, signal, draw attention to
3. (V) become tired or weak
Florid (floridity)
- Having a red or flushed face
2. Flowery, elaborate
Folly
Foolishness
Furtive
Sneaky
Generic
General, not specific
Germinate
Begin or cause to grow
Glacial
- Icy, related to glaciers
- Cold, unfriendly
- Extremely slow
Gravity
Seriousness
Hail
- (n) pellets of ice
- (V) rain down with force
- (V) signal, greet, call out
- (V) praise
Harbor
- (N) safe place or shelter, particularly for boats
- (V) keep in mind
3 give a home to, shelter, or hide someone
Hedonist
Someone drown by pleasure
Heresy (heretic)
Belief that goes against the established Opinion
Definitive
Absolute, authoritative