6/7/14 Flashcards
Legerdemain
Slight of hand; display of skill with hands
Puissant
Powerful, potent, mighty
Firmament
The sky; heavens
Salad days
A time of youthful inexperience or indiscretion
Milksop
An effeminate or weak minded boy or unmanly man
Caveat
A warning or caution
Hardscrabble
Using a bear or meager living with great labor or difficulty marked by poverty
Daughty
Marked by fear this resolution, valiant, brave
Je June
Lacking in nutritive value
Promethean
Of relating to Prometheus or boldly original
Paladin
A knight erant; a distinguished champion of a medieval king or prince
Abattoir
A slaughterhouse
Synergy
The interaction of elements that when combine produce a total effect greater than the some of the individual elements
Parsimony
The quality of being careful with money or resources
Occam’s razor
The philosophical and scientific rules that entitles should not be multiplied unnecessarily so in other words that simplicity wins over complication
Carpetbagger
A person from northern US went to the South after the Civil War to make money
Diaspora
A group of people who live outside the area in which they had lived for longtime friend which the ancestors lived
Waylay
To lie in wait for and attack from ambush
Bête noire
Something or someone particularly detested or avoided
Nouveau riche
A person who has recently become rich and likes to flaunt his or her money
Litigious
Inclined to dispute or disagree argumentative
Dandy
A man who is excessively concerned about his clothes and appearance
Milquetoast
Timid meek person
Sisyphean
Endless and unavailing as in labor or a task
