ASP Vocab 1 Flashcards
Contentious
Likely to cause disagreement or argument
Tacit
Implied or indicated withiut being stated
Mire
Heavy deep mud. Soft, spongy earth
Prodigious
Extraordinary or amazing in bulk, quantity, or degree
Inveigle
To win over with ingenuity or flattery
Rhetorically
Asked merely for effect with no answer expected
Deigning
To condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one’s superiority that. Us involved; to stoop to a lower level
Entrenched
To establish solidly
Anarchy
Absence of order
Insidious
Harmful but enticing; awaiting a chance to entrap: treacherous
Mordantly
Biting and caustic in thought, manner or style
Enmity
Positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will
Effulgence
Radiant splendor. Brilliance.
Latent
On the verge of developing or emerging but not yet visible
Undulation
A wavy appearance, outline or form
Amiably
Being friendly, sociable
Irresolutely
Uncertain how to act or proceed, vacillating
Reverie
The condition of being lost in thought; daydream
Erratic
Characterized by lack of consistency, regularity, or uniformity
Truancy
The act if behaving like one who shirks duty; especially one who stays out of school without permission
Idiosyncratic
Characteristic peculiarity, eccentric
Emissary
One designated as the agent of another; representative; a secret agent
Transfigured
To give a new and typically exalted or spiritual appearamce to; transform outwardly and usually for the better
Dispensation
An exemption from a law or from an impediment, vow, or oath
