Appendix A Words Flashcards
Hasty and therefore not detailed
Cursory
Collection of concise but detailed info about something like in a book/publication usually
Compendium
Sparing in the use of words
Terse
Act quickly but also without thought or care
Impetuous
Act quickly or suddenly or unexpectedly
Precipitate
Very giving or generous or liberal
Munificent
Encourage someone to do something wrong
Abet
Adopt or support
Espouse
Advocates for something
Proponent
Maintaining of someone or something
Sustenance
Loyal, reliable ,and hardworking
Stalwart
Face or facial expression or Admit as acceptable or possible
Countenance
Spiteful or bad tempered (irritable, irascible, tetchy)
Bilious
Childishly bad tempered and petulant
Pettish
Feeling of offense or deep resentment
Dudgeon
Someone or something that is inexperienced, immature, or underdeveloped
Fledgling
Person who has converted from one opinion, religion, or party to another
Proselyte
Easily angered
Irascible
Complaining in a petulant or whining manner
Querulous
Insolent (rude and arrogant lack of respect), rude, unreasonable angry and upset in a childish way
Petulant
Feeling of pique resentment usually from an insult or like slight
Umbrage
Beginning to grow or increase rapidly, flourishing
Burgeoning
Feeling of irritation or resentment from a slight especially to ones pride (irritation, annoyance, resentment, anger)
Pique
Readily expressing anger or irritation
Waspish
Cause or give rise to or reproduce offspring
Engender
Sharp and frank
OR
Or can be something that taste sour or bitter
Acerbic
Sharp remark or tone
Acidulous
Victorious or incisive (direct) in expression or style
Trenchant
Overused, unoriginal, boring
Hackneyed
Harshly critical
Caustic
Angry and bitter language or manner or feeling
Acrimonious
Dull, tasteless, lacking things that are interesting
Insipid
Sharp or critical quality
Mordant
Biting sarcasm, invective (insulting/abusive)
Mordacious
Harshness of tone or manner
Asperity
Lack inspiration or excitement, dull
Pedestrian
Occurs every day so its like mundane
Quotidian
Lacking originality and obvious and boring
Banal
Commonplace, unromantic, ordinary
OR
Unimaginative, uninspired, dull
Prosaic
Remark or statement that is overused so it’s not interesting or thoughtful anymore
Platitude (cliche, truism)
Dull or unoriginal cause its overused
Trite
Bold or can be imprudent lack of respect
Audacious
Morally corrupt, wicked
Depraved
Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures
Debauchery
Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters
Licentious
Drunken partying (revelry)
Bacchanalian
Overindulging in sensual pleasures
Dissipated
Person usually a man who behaves without moral principles or sense of responsibility especially in sexual matters (playboy)
Libertine
Immoral or grossly unfair behaviour
Iniquity
Unprincipled person usually humorously or affectionately
OR
Can be verb for expressing or feeling disapproval for something (criticize)
Reprobate
Arousing moral distant (sleezy, sunsavory)
Sordid (squalid)
Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
Vicarious
Excessive sexual drive, lust, lecherous, lascivious
Libidinous
Arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination, lustful
Salacious
Typical example or pattern of something
Paradigm
Referring to sexual matters in a irreverent (disrespectful) way (risque or racy)
Ribald
Vile, like moral turpitude in law for behaviour that is against social standards
Turpitude
False or misleading charge meant to harm someone’s reputation, Attack on reputation or integrity of someone or something
Aspersion
Scold or criticise angrily
Berate
Reprimand someone severely
Castigate
Deny or contradict
Gainsay
Make a forcefully reproachful (disapproving) protest
Remonstrate
Express contempt for, ridicule
Deride/Derisive
Damage good reputation of someone or something
Defame
Regard or represent as being of little worth, belittle
Disparage
Publicly denounce
Decry
Dispute the truth, challenge
Impugn
Criticize something harshly
Lambaste
Strong public criticism or verbal abuse
Obloquy
Slander
Calumny
Attack or publicly ridicule
OR
Wooden framework
Pillory
Forceful bitter verbal attack
Diatribe
Publicly declare wrong or evil
OR
Inform against
Denounce
Lengthy and aggressive speech
Harangue
Rebuke severely, scold
Objurgate
Criticize severely
OR
Damage or remove part of a surface usually of the skin
Excoriate
Harsh criticisms (vilification)
Opprobrium
Speak or write with great hostility (fulminate, declaim, protest)
Inveigh
Scold or correct
Reprove
Criticize in an abusive or angry manner
Revile
Felling or expressing sorrow or distress
Dolorous
Criticize sharply
Rebuke
Funeral or burial
Obsequies
A long angry speech (diatribe)
Tirade
Sound of a bell usually run for a death or funeral
Knell
No longer existing or functioning
Defunct
Be deprived of a loved one through a profound absence
Bereave
Blame or insult in strong or violent language
Vituperate
Disturbing or horrifying usually involvement or depiction of death and injury
Macabre
Ghost or ghostlike image of someone usually shortly before or after their death
Wraith
Passionate expression of grief or sorrow
OR
Mourn
Lament
Song of mourning
Elegy
Person at the point of death
OR
Something in terminal decline, lacking vitality or vigor
Moribound
Renounce or reject something desired or valuable
Abnegate
Reating to tomb or interment
OR
Gloomy, dismal
Sepulchral
Understood by few, mysterious
Arcane
Showing the indifference to comfort or luxury
Spartan
Suggesting practice of severe self discipline
Ascetic
Strong and powerful, dominant
Hegemonic/Hegemony
Assuming power or authority without justification, arrogant
Imperious
Typical of a despot, tyrannical
Despotic
Puzzle, confuse, bewilder
Bemusing
Insisting on immediate attention or obedience, usually aggressively or hars
Peremptory
Difficult to understand, obscure
Abstruse
Cloud, opaque
OR
Confused or obscure in meaning or effect
Turbid
Understood by small number of people with specialized knowledge or interest
Esoteric
Little known, abstruse
Recondite
Impossible to understand or interpret
Inscrutable
Decaying or rotting with awful smell
Putrid
Spoil
OR
Desecrate or profane (something sacred)
Defile
Having an extremely offensive smell
Noisome
Smelling extremely unpleasant
Fetid
Arouse or incur resement or anger
OR
Unjust
Invidious
Translucently clear
OR
Easily understood
Pellucid
Extremely unpleasant, repulsive
Odious
Thing belonging or appropriate to a period usually that its not in right that usually like old fashion
Anachronism
Free of anything that darkens, completely clear
Limpid
Unattractive and objectionable
Rebarbative
Clear, logical, and convincing
Cogent
Making someone feel embarrassed, disconcerted (unsettled or confused)
Abash
Person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
Iconoclast
Departing from an accepted standard (deviant)
Aberrant
Deviating from what is standard, normal, or expected
Anomalous
Distress or embarrassment
Chagrin
Feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows doing something bad
Compunction
State of feeling remorseful or penitent
Contrition
Modesty or shyness resulting in lack of self confidence
Diffidence
Atone for guilt or sin
Expiate
Minor weakness or eccentricity in someone’s character
Foible
Awkward, embarrassing, or unsophisticated
Gaucherie
Bitterly regret
Rue
Equivalent in seriousness to, same as
Tantamount
Doubt the authenticity, fictitious
Apocryphal
Use of trickery to a achieve political, financial, or legal purpose
Chicanery
Deceitfulness
Duplicity
Wrong, incorrect
Erroneous
Sly or cunning intelligence
Guile
Untruthfulness, lying
Mendacity
Speak or act in an evasive way
Prevaricate
False or fake
Spurious
An unfounded rumor or story
Canard
Conceal one’s true motives, feelings, or beliefs
Dissemble
Made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, artificial, imitation, substitute
Ersatz
Simulated or pretended, insincere
Feigned
Not telling truth, lying
Mendacious
Deceitfulness, untrustworthiness
Perfidy
Superficially plausible but not actually wrong
Specious
Relating to marriage
Conjugal
Related
Consanguine
Stick or spindle on wood for spinning
OR
Female side of family
Distaff
Marriage
Endogamous
Of or due from son or daughter
Filial
Brothers
Fraternal
Killing of own brother or sister
Fratricide
Person or thing from which it originates or descends from
Progenitor
Descendent of notable family
Scion
Enthusiasm or passion
Arden/Ardor
Intensely enthusiastic or passionate
Fervid
Person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their ideals
Zealot
Strong supporter of something
OR
Prejudice in favor of something (biased)
Partisan
Expressing or intending to promote particular cause or point of view
Tendentious
Set or declare someone free from blame
Absolve and Exculpate
Atone for guilt or sin
Expiate
Make something less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause
Palliate
Rectify something
Redress
Clear someone of blame or suspicion
Vindicate
Laugh in a breathy gleeful way, chuckle
Chortle
Treating serious things with inappropriate humor, flippant
Facetious
An insulting or mocking remark, taunt
Gibe
Humor or frivolity for serious things with humor lacking respect
Levity
Good humored teasing
Raillery
Smile in an affectedly coy manner, giggle
Simper
Curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement
Droll
Not showing a serious or respectful attitude
Flippant
Fond of or characterized by joking, humorous or playful
Jocular
So foolish
Ludicrous
Quick clever reply to insult or criticism
Riposte
Reduction, decrease
Abatement
Long opening or break in something
Fissure
Pause between things
Interregnum
Opening or open space
Aperature
An intervening space, usually very small
Interstice
Short period of rest or relief from something unpleasant
Respite
Inclined to be merciful, lenient
Clement
Generosity in giving money or gifts
Largesse
Gift larger or more generous than needed
Munificent
Generous or forgiving especially towards rival or less powerful person
Magnanimous
Given or giving without restraint
Unstinting
Having or showing extreme greed for wealth or material gain
Avaricious
Having or showing great desire for wanting something someone else has
Covetous
Primarily concerned with money
Mercenary
Extremely poor or mean
Penurious
Aggressively greedy or grasping
Rapacious
Showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery
Venal
Harshness of tone or manner
Asperity
Relentlessly severe stern ro gloomy in manner or appearance
Dour
Grimly mocking or cynical
Sardonic
Having or showing a wish to do evil to others
Malevolent
Eager or quick to argue or fight, aggressively defiant
Truculent
Threatening harm, menacing
Baleful
Causing harm or damage
Deleterious
Terrible evil or ferocity
Fell
Having or showing sharp or critical quality, biting
Mordant
Witheringly scornful, severely critical
Scathing
Filled with bitter criticism or mallice
Vitriolic
Threatening harm, menacing
Baleful
Causing or likely to cause damage or harm
Injurious
Causing destruction or serious harm
Baneful
Tending to obstruct or harm
OR
Unfriendly, hostile
Inimical
Proceeding in a gradual subtle way with harmful effect
Insidious
Expressive or conveying a threat
Minatory
Deceitful and untrustworthy
Perfidious
Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way
Pernicious
Harsh discordant mixture of sounds
Cacophony
Making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise
Raucous
Loud unpleasant and prolonged noise
OR
Making someone learn or remember somehting
Din
Loud and harsh, grating
Strident
Lacking harmony
Dissonant
Bitterness or resentfulness
Rancor
Something or someone that one vehemently dislikes
OR
Formal curse by pope or council of church
Anathema
Feeling of repulsion, disgusted loathing
Abhorrence
Deep seated feeling of dislike, aversion
Antipathy
General or widespread hatred or disgust directed towards someone cause of their actions
Odium
State or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something
Enmity
