Advanced 4 Flashcards
Encumber
Hold back
Irrefutable
Impossible to deny or disprove
Unpropitious
(Of a circumstance) with little chance of success
Peripatetic
Traveling by foot
Corollary
kuh-rol-uh-ree
A practical consequence that follows naturally
Asperity
Harshness of manner
Ribald
Humorously vulgar
Tempestuous
As if driven by turbulent or conflicting emotions; highly energetic and wildly changing or fluctuating
Immure
To enclose, usually in walls
Ossify
Make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
Patent
Glaringly obvious
Firebrand
Someone who deliberately creates trouble
Dispensation
An exemption from a rule or obligation
Presentiment
A feeling of evil to come
Unviable
Not able to work, survive, or succeed (also spelled inviable)
Crestfallen
Brought low in spirit
Recrimination
Mutual accusations
Lacerate
Deeply hurt the feelings of; distress
Inviolate
Must be kept sacred
Flippant
Showing inappropriate levity
Hobble
To hold back the progress of something
Dovetail
Fit together tightly, as if by means of an interlocking joint
Improvident
Not given careful consideration
Incontrovertible
Necessarily or demonstrably true; impossible to deny or disprove
Puissant
Powerful
Equitable
Fair to all parties as dictated by reason and conscience
Invidious
Likely to cause resentment
Celerity
suh-ler-i-tee
Speed, rapidity
Magisterial
Offensively self-assured or given to exercising unwarranted power
Stalwart
Dependable; inured to fatigue or hardships
Cosset
Treat with excessive indulgence
Intimation
An indirect suggestion
Spartan
Unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgement; practicing great self-denial
Machinate
Engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together
Crystallize
Cause to take on a definite and clear shape
