ALL vocab 1-7 Flashcards
run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
Abscond
a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
Bias
emotionally hardened
Callous
give over to another for care or safekeeping
consign
cause to separate and go in different directions
Dispel
strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
Emulate
occurring by happy chance
Fortuitous
attribute or credit to
Impute
the conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group
Mores
a trite or obvious remark
Platitude
having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
Adept
support and strengthen
Bolster
the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech
Candor
fraught with uncertainty or doubt
Dubious
have as a logical consequence
Entail
grow vigorously
Flourish
bestow a quality on
Impart
lacking any legal or binding force
Null
(architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or a tower
Pinnacle
marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
Savvy
a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
Reverence
an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
Depredation
steal goods; take as spoils
Plunder
anger; irritability
Ire
fill something that had previously been emptied
Replenish
search haphazardly
Rummage
careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment
Prudent
utter or proclaim insistently and noisily
Clamor
a cry of sorrow and grief
Lament
a state of danger involving risk
Peril
a person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea
Advocate
make a more or less disguised reference to
Allude
quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively
Brawl
contented to a fault with oneself or one’s actions
Complacent
inadequate in amount or degree
Deficient
liable to sudden unpredictable change
Erratic
used of a person’s appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person
Imposing
marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself
Modest
having or wielding force or authority
Potent
a prod fixed to a rider’s heel and used to urge a horse onward
Spur
follow in or as if in pursuit
Pursue
uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
Futility
a felling of joy and pride
Elation
undergo or be subjected to
Endure
force somebody to do something
Compel
recurring again and again
Recurrent
the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
Transgression
not genuine; imitating something superior
Counterfeit
showing inventiveness and skill
Cunning
expel, as if by official decree
Banish
rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration / (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
Meter
correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines
Rhyme
the property of sounding harmonious
Consonance
the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
Symbolism
use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
Alliteration
using words that imitate the sound they denote
Onomatopoeia
a statement that contradicts itself
Paradox
the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Personification
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Metaphor
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with like' or as’)
Simile
extravagant exaggeration
Hyperbole
the ability to form mental images of things or events
Imagery
a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Sonnet
speech you make yourself
Soliloquy
on or to one side
Aside
something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress
Impediment
pilgrims who have undertaken a pilgrimage
Palmers
showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another’s advantages
Envious
a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will
Rancor
lack of agreement and harmony
Discords
quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively
Brawl
expel, as if by official decree
Banish
