Boot Camp Set 6 Flashcards
flower
v. to reach the best or most vigorous stage
querulous
adj. inclined to find fault; complaining; full of complaint
marshal
v. to arrange in order
elaborate
adj. detailed; carefully thorough; v. to develop with care or at greater length
n. elaboration
lewd
adj. preoccupied with sex and sexual desire
hallowed
adj. made or set apart as holy
v. hallow
hefty
adj. heavy; big and strong, muscular; of considerable size or amount
n. heft
milestone
n. an important event
mortal
adj. subject to death; causing death
ascertain
v. to discover with certainty, as through examination
quixotic
adj. foolishly idealistic; extravagantly chivalrous; impulsive or capricious
indelible
adj. incapable of being removed or erased
discern
v. to perceive and understand so as to make distinctions
garner
v. to get or earn; to collect or gather
insight
n. the power to sense or understand something
adj. insightful
slovenly
adj. careless about one’s own appearance
banal
adj. dull or stale; commonplace
n. banality
robust
adj. strong and full of health
indignation
n. anger aroused by something unjust or evil
adj. indignant
contagious
adj. transmissible by direct or indirect contact; likely to affect others
n. contagion
plausible
adj. appearing worthy of belief or trust
n. plausibility
hypothesis
n. a tentative explanation; something assumed true for the sake of argument or investigation
adj. hypothetical
exude
v. to give off; to emit; to radiate
novel
adj. strikingly new
n. novelty
auspicious
adj. showing signs of a favorable outcome; marked by favorable circumstances
luminous
adj. emitting light, esp. self-generated; intellectually brilliant
indiscriminate
adj. unselective; random; unrestrained
memento
n. a reminder or a souvenir
transient
adj. passing with time; remaining only briefly
n. transience
integrity
n. moral or artistic honesty; strength of character
stifle
v. to interrupt or cut off; to keep in or hold back; to suffocate or smother
adj. stifling
empirical
adj. based on experience rather than a theory
n. empiricism
best
v. to defeat
dismay
Av. to destroy courage or resolution; to cause to lose enthusiasm, to disillusion
laconic
adj. brief in speech; using few words
discreet
adj. careful about what one sats or does; circumspect; done, said, or placed so as to attract little notice
n. discretion
catastrophe
n. disaster; sudden misfortune
adj. catastrophic
reverberate
v. to reecho
n. reverberation
excrete
v. to separate (waste matter) and eliminate from the body
matrix
n. a surrounding substance within which something else originates or is contained
pl. matrices
scorn
n. a feeling of contempt or disdain
obsequious
adj. showing too great a willingness to serve or obey
amicable
adj. showing friendliness or good will
narcissistic
adj. excessively interested in one’s own appearance, comfort, importance, etc.
n. narcissism
contiguous
adj. sharing a common boundary; adjoining
desolate
adj. left alone; lonely; deserted
n. desolation
own
v. to admit, esp. taking personal responsibility for one’s own actions or thoughts
giddy
adj. dizzy; lightheaded
malfeasance
n. wrongdoing, esp. by a public official
adj. malfeasant
equanimity
n. evenness of temper, esp. as a characteristic state
