8/19 Flashcards
Arduous
Requiring lots of effort
Taxing to the utmost
Difficult
Avarice
Greed
Capricious
Given to sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior
Coalesce
Combine together to form a whole
Copious
Plentiful
Abundant
Cosmopolitan
Including peoples of different background and countries
Describing someone who is sophistication because of traveling and being exposed to many different cultures
Aggrandize
Enlarge or increase
Embellish, adding details
Adulterate
To make something impure by adding inferior things
Debase, corrupt
Acumen
Keen judgement and perception
Shrewdness
Abscond
To leave secretly and often taking something along
Advocate
To please for someone or some cause
Ameliorate
Improve or make better a situation
Ambiguous
Unclear and open for multiple interpretations
covet
Longing to possess something