Ap English Language Pt. 9 Flashcards
Leery
Suspicious
Impregnable
Totally safe from attack, able to resist defeat
Bestial
Beastly animallike
Lionize
To treat as a celebrity
Caustic
capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue.
Cavalier
Carefree happy behaving without care
Demystify
To remove mystery from; to clarify
Deplete
To use up to exhaust
Emaciated
Skinny, scrawny, gaunt, especially from hunger
Embroil
To involve; caused to fall into disorder
Feign
To pretend, give a false impression; to invent falsely
Fervid
Passionate, intense, zealous
Grandiose
Magnificent and imposing; exaggerated and pretentious
Gratuitous
Free, voluntary; unnecessary and unjustified
Hermetic
Tightly sealed
Hegemony
Leadership, domination, usually by a country
Inane
Foolish, silly, lacking significance
Bevy
Group
Impromptu
Spontaneous, without rehearsal
Livid
Extremely angered; reddened with anger
Loiter
To stand around idly
Matriculate
To enroll as a member of a school or college or university
Maudlin
Overly sentimental
Nondescript
Lacking interesting or distinctive qualities; dull
Opine
To express an opinion
Orchestrate
To arrange music for performance; to coordinate, organize
Paraphrase
To reword, usually in simpler terms
Pariah
Outcast
Quiver
To shake slightly, tremble, vibrate
Quibble
To argue about insignificant and irrelevant details
Recalcitrant
Resisting authority or control
Recant
To retract a statement, opinion, etc.
Scrupulous
Restrained; honest; careful and precise
Scurrilous
Vulgar, low, Indecent
Tenet
Belief, doctrine
Terrestrial
Personally; down to earth, commonplace
Usurp
To seize by force
Amalgamate
To mix, to combine
Amorous
Strongly attracted to love; showing love
Impoverish
To make poor or bankrupt