Barrons 2 Flashcards by Jeremy Intal

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Pique

n. feeling of hurt pride

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Plaintive

adj. melancholy; mournful

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Plasticity

n. condition of being able to be shaped or formed; pliability

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Plume

v. to congratulate onself in a self-satisfied way

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Prate

v. to talke idly; chatter

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Precept

n. principle; law

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Precipitate

v. to cause to happen; throw down from a height

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Preempt

v. to supersede; appropriate for oneself

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Prehensible

adj. capable of grasping

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Premonition

n. forewarning; presentiment

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Preternatural

adj. supernatural

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Prevaricate

v. to quibble; evade the truth

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Primordial

adj. original; existing from the beginning

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Probity

n. honesty; high-mindedness

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Propitate

v. to win over; appease

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Provident

adj. providing for future needs; frugal

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Puissant

adj. powerful

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Purport

v. to profess; suppose; claim

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Pusillanimous

adj. cowardly

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Quail

v. to cower; lose heart

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Quiescent

adj. inactive; still

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Quorum

n. number of members necessary to conduct a meeting

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Raiment

n. clothing

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Rebus

n. puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words

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# Define: Recondite

adj. abstruse; profound

# Define: Redoubtable

adj. formidable; arousing fear; worthy of respect

# Define: Refractory

adj. stubborn; unmanageable; resisting ordinary methods of treatment

# Define: Regale

v. to entertain

# Define: Remonstrate

v. to object or protest

# Define: Reprise

n. repetition, especially of a piece of music

# Define: Repine

v. to complain

# Define: Reproach

v. to find fault with; blame

# Define: Reprobate

n. morally unprincipled person

# Define: Riposte

n. a retaliatory action or retort

# Define: Salacious

adj. lascivious; lustful

# Define: Salutary

adj. expecting an improvement; favorable to health

# Define: Sardonic

adj. cynical; scornfully mocking

# Define: Sartorial

adj. pertaining to tailors

# Define: Satyr

n. a creature that is half-man, half beast with the horns and legs of a goat; a follower of Dionysos; a lecher

# Define: Secrete

v. produce and release substance into organism

# Define: Sedition

n. behavior prompting rebellion

# Define: Sextant

n. navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude

# Define: Sodden

adj. thoroughly soaked; saturated

# Define: Soliloquy

n. literary or dramatic speech by one character, not addressed to others

# Define: Sinuous

adj. winding; intricate; complex

# Define: Solvent

adj. able to meet financial obligations

# Define: Somatic

adj. relating to or affecting the body; corporeal

# Define: Sordid

adj. filthy; contemptible and corrupt

# Define: Specious

adj. seeming to be logical and sound, but not really so

# Define: Spendthrift

n. person who spends money recklessly

# Define: Staccato

adj. marked by abrupt, clear-cut sounds

# Define: Stint

v. to be sparing

# Define: Stratified

adj. arranged in layers

# Define: Stratum

n. layers

# Define: Striated

adj. marked with thin, narrow grooves or channels

# Define: Stricture

n. something that restrains; negative criticism

# Define: Strident

adj. loud; harsh; unpleasantly noisy

# Define: Stultify

v. to impair or reduce to uselessness

# Define: Stygian

adj. dark and gloomy; hellish

# Define: Subsume

v. to include; incorporate

# Define: Succor

n. relief; help in time of distress or want

# Define: Supine

adj. lying on the back; marked by lethargy

# Define: Suppliant

adj. beseeching

# Define: Supplicant

n. one who asks humbly and earnestly

# Define: Supposition

n. the act of assuming to be true or real

# Define: Syllogism

n. a form of deductive reasoning that has a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion

# Define: Sylvan

adj. relating to the woods or forest

# Define: Tautology

n. unnecessary repetition

# Define: Taxonomy

n. science of classification; in biology, the process of classifying organisms in categories

# Define: Tenuous

adj. weak; insubstantial

# Define: Tenet

n. belief; doctrine

# Define: Timbre

n. the characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone or color

# Define: Thespian

n. an actor or actress

# Define: Tout

v. to promote or praise energetically

# Define: Translucent

adj. partially transparent

# Define: Travesty

n. parody; exaggerated imitation; caricature

# Define: Tremulous

adj. trembling; quivering; frugal; tumid

# Define: Turbid

adj. muddy; opaque; in a state of great confusion

# Define: Turgid/Tumid

adj. swollen; distended; bloated; pompous

# Define: Tutelary

adj. serving as a guardian or protector

# Define: Undulating

adj. moving in waves

# Define: Untenable

adj. indefensible

# Define: Untoward

adj. not favorable; troublesome; adverse; unruly

# Define: Usury

n. practice of lending money at exorbitant rates

# Define: Venal

adj. bribable; mercenary; corruptible

# Define: Vendetta

n. prolonged feud marked by bitter hostility

# Define: Venerate

v. to adore; honor; respect

# Define: Visage

n. countenance; appearance; aspect

# Define: Vituperative

adj. using or containing harsh, abusive censure

# Define: Vivisection

n. dissection, surgery, or painful experiments performed on a living animal for the purpose of scientific research

# Define: Welter

v. to wallow or roll; toss about; be in turmoil

# Define: Wary

adj. careful; cautious

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. feeling of hurt pride

Pique

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. melancholy; mournful

Plaintive

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. condition of being able to be shaped or formed; pliability

Plasticity

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to congratulate onself in a self-satisfied way

Plume

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to talke idly; chatter

Prate

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. principle; law

Precept

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to cause to happen; throw down from a height

Precipitate

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to supersede; appropriate for oneself

Preempt

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. capable of grasping

Prehensible

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. forewarning; presentiment

Premonition

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. supernatural

Preternatural

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to quibble; evade the truth

Prevaricate

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. original; existing from the beginning

Primordial

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. honesty; high-mindedness

Probity

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to win over; appease

Propitate

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. providing for future needs; frugal

Provident

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. powerful

Puissant

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to profess; suppose; claim

Purport

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. cowardly

Pusillanimous

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to cower; lose heart

Quail

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. inactive; still

Quiescent

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. number of members necessary to conduct a meeting

Quorum

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. clothing

Raiment

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words

Rebus

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. abstruse; profound

Recondite

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. formidable; arousing fear; worthy of respect

Redoubtable

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. stubborn; unmanageable; resisting ordinary methods of treatment

Refractory

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to entertain

Regale

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to object or protest

Remonstrate

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. repetition, especially of a piece of music

Reprise

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to complain

Repine

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to find fault with; blame

Reproach

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. morally unprincipled person

Reprobate

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. a retaliatory action or retort

Riposte

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. lascivious; lustful

Salacious

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. expecting an improvement; favorable to health

Salutary

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. cynical; scornfully mocking

Sardonic

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. pertaining to tailors

Sartorial

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. a creature that is half-man, half beast with the horns and legs of a goat; a follower of Dionysos; a lecher

Satyr

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. produce and release substance into organism

Secrete

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. behavior prompting rebellion

Sedition

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude

Sextant

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. thoroughly soaked; saturated

Sodden

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. literary or dramatic speech by one character, not addressed to others

Soliloquy

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. winding; intricate; complex

Sinuous

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. able to meet financial obligations

Solvent

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. relating to or affecting the body; corporeal

Somatic

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. filthy; contemptible and corrupt

Sordid

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. seeming to be logical and sound, but not really so

Specious

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. person who spends money recklessly

Spendthrift

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. marked by abrupt, clear-cut sounds

Staccato

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to be sparing

Stint

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. arranged in layers

Stratified

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. layers

Stratum

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. marked with thin, narrow grooves or channels

Striated

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. something that restrains; negative criticism

Stricture

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. loud; harsh; unpleasantly noisy

Strident

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to impair or reduce to uselessness

Stultify

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. dark and gloomy; hellish

Stygian

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to include; incorporate

Subsume

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. relief; help in time of distress or want

Succor

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. lying on the back; marked by lethargy

Supine

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. beseeching

Suppliant

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. one who asks humbly and earnestly

Supplicant

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. the act of assuming to be true or real

Supposition

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. a form of deductive reasoning that has a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion

Syllogism

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. relating to the woods or forest

Sylvan

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. unnecessary repetition

Tautology

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. science of classification; in biology, the process of classifying organisms in categories

Taxonomy

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. weak; insubstantial

Tenuous

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. belief; doctrine

Tenet

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. the characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone or color

Timbre

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. an actor or actress

Thespian

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to promote or praise energetically

Tout

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. partially transparent

Translucent

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. parody; exaggerated imitation; caricature

Travesty

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. trembling; quivering; frugal; tumid

Tremulous

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. muddy; opaque; in a state of great confusion

Turbid

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. swollen; distended; bloated; pompous

Turgid/Tumid

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. serving as a guardian or protector

Tutelary

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. moving in waves

Undulating

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. indefensible

Untenable

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. not favorable; troublesome; adverse; unruly

Untoward

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. practice of lending money at exorbitant rates

Usury

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. bribable; mercenary; corruptible

Venal

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. prolonged feud marked by bitter hostility

Vendetta

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to adore; honor; respect

Venerate

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. countenance; appearance; aspect

Visage

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. using or containing harsh, abusive censure

Vituperative

# What word most nearly fits this definition? n. dissection, surgery, or painful experiments performed on a living animal for the purpose of scientific research

Vivisection

# What word most nearly fits this definition? v. to wallow or roll; toss about; be in turmoil

Welter

# What word most nearly fits this definition? adj. careful; cautious

Wary

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