Advanced 7 Flashcards
Modicum
A small or moderate or token amount
Bastardization
An act that debases or corrupts
Palaver
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Loath
Unwilling to do something contrary to your custom (usually followed by ‘to’)
Verisimilitude
The appearance of truth
Cataclysm
An event resulting in great loss and misfortune
Dissolution
A living full of debauchery and indulgence in sensual pleasure
Eponym
The name derived from a person (real or imaginary); the person for who something is named
Dissemble
Conceal one’s true motives, usually through deceit
Obtain
Be valid, applicable, or true
Oblique
Not straightforward; indirect
Diminutive
To indicate smallness
Very small
Raillery
Light teasing
Surfeit
An excessive amount of something
Exiguity
The quality of being meager
Simulacrum
A representation of a person (esp. in the form of a sculpture)
A bad imitation
Despot
A cruel and oppressive dictator
Demonstrative
Given to or marked by the open expression of emotion
Graft
Corruption, usually through bribery
Exorbitant
Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
Concomitant
Describing an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another
Row
An angry dispute
Splenetic
Very irritable
Adjudicate
To serve as a judge in a competition; to arrive at a judgement or conclusion
Hoodwink
To deceive or trick someone
Bereft
Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love
Sorrowful through loss or deprivation
Dissipate
Squander or spend money frivolously
To disperse or scatter
Panacea
Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; a universal solution
Canard
A deliberately misleading fabrication
Misattribute
To erroneously attribute, to falsely ascribe; used esp. of authorship
