Asp Vocab Quiz 1 Flashcards
Contentious
Likely to cause disagreement
Tacit
Implied or indicated, but not actually expressed
Mire
Spongey earth. Soft mud
Prodigious
Extraordinary in bulk, quantIty, or degree
Inveigle
To win over with flattery
Rhetorically
To ask for effect, not an answer. Think Rhetorical question
Deigning
To stoop to someone’s lower level
Entrenched
To establish solidity
Anarchy
As absence of order (government)
Insidious
Harmful but enticing
Mordantly
Biting and causing in thought
Enmity
A mutually hatred for something or someone.
Effulgence
Radiant splendor. Think diamonds
Latent
On the verge of appearing
Undulation
Wavy out,under of appearance
Reverie
Being Lost in a daydream
Erratic
Random, patternless, un uniform
Truancy
Being bad?
Idiosyncratic
The characteristic of being peculiar
Emissary
Being someone’s secret agent
Transfigured
Changing spiritually for the better
Dispensation
Exemption from the law, a vow, order, etc.
irresolutely
uncertain how to act or proceed; vacillating