Barrons List 4 Flashcards
Procrastinates
verb
means putting off doing something until a future time. When people sit down to write term papers, they can find all kinds of clever ways to procrastinate: reorganizing the paperclips, calling everyone they know, typing “I am bored” fifty times in a row.
I’ve always procrastinated about making my own film.’ ”
New York Times Jun 17, 2011
Obliterate
V
remove completely from recognition or memory
Canceling foreign visas obliterated tourism and stopped a source of critical foreign labor
S: efface
unremitting
Adj
Constant
chivalrous
adj
شهم
squander
v
To squander means to spend extravagantly, thoughtlessly, or wastefully. If you need to save for college, don’t squander her income on nightly sushi dinners.
Squander used to mean scatter, and the way we use it now implies throwing something (like money) all over the place. You can squander time as well as money. If you have a big deadline but you are chatting away or looking at social networking sites, you are squandering your time. If you have a big chance to play for a major league baseball team, but show up to the tryouts hung over, you have squandered your chance.
wan
adj
Someone who is wan is visibly unwell and lacking in energy. If you’ve had the flu for over a week, and you finally get out of bed looking pale and tired, your mother might say that you look wan.
dim or feeble
muster
v
Originally meaning only to gather soldiers, muster’s definition has been expanded to include gathering up just about anything––you can muster up some dinner, some friends, or even some ketchup, pickles and mustard.
Remember that muster used to involve getting reluctant soldiers out of bed and into the field of battle––it involves overcoming a certain inertia. When you muster up the courage to face something, it’s clear that this is pretty scary for you.
wring
V
To wring something is to twist or squeeze it, usually out of its original shape. If you annoy someone enough, they might threaten to wring your neck.
If you do laundry by hand, then you most likely wring out your shirts to get rid of excess water before hanging them out to dry. You can also wring out someone’s hair after washing it. As you can tell, the word often has to do with getting liquids out of something. You might wring tears out of a person’s eyes if you tell him the sad story of the day you lost your puppy.
intermittent
adj
Reach for the adjective intermittent to describe periodic movement and stopping and starting over a period of time.
Waffle
v, n
Fail to make a decision
ثرثر
sloth
n
Laziness
Nether
adj
Nether is an adjective that means located below or beneath something else
The nether part of something is the lowest part of it, the bottom. If you’re having, ahem, trouble in the toilet, you might want to go talk to the doc about your nether parts.
prostrate
v
stretched out and lying at full length along the ground.
The verb prostrate means “to make helpless or defenseless.” Illness, injury, food poisoning, grief — any of these things can prostrate people, or lying down in a helpless position.
beeline
n
A beeline is the swiftest, most direct route between two points. If you are shopping at the mall on a weekend afternoon and you see an empty parking space, you should make a beeline for it or risk circling the lot for hours.
subaltern
adj
Subaltern is an adjective that means inferior in rank or status
A subaltern is someone with a low ranking in a social, political, or other hierarchy. It can also mean someone who has been marginalized or oppressed.
