C Flashcards
acute
sharp, shrewd;
Your eyesight is acute.
adamant
stubborn, unyielding;
completely infelxible
address
to speak to;
to adress a convention
adherent
follower, supporter, believer;
king’s adherent
adhere
to adhere to sth = to stick to sth
admonish
to scold gently, to warn;
The boys’ mother admonish them for eating the pie.
ameliorate
to make better or more tolerable;
The gift of several million dollars considerably ameliorated my financial condition.
amenable to sth
easy to control;
He seemed most amenable to my idea.; ‘Hamlet’ is the least amenable of all Shakespeare’s plays to being summarized.
amnesty
an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy
categorical
unconditional, absolute;
a categorical denial
cajole
He cajoled me into giving a speech.
cadence
rhythm
castigate
to criticize severely;
His mother castigated him for forgetting to pick her up at the airport.
capricious
unpredictable;
The weather is often said to be capricious.
censure
to condemn severely;
The Senate sometimes censures senators for breaking laws.
cerebral
brainy;
To be cerebral is to do and care about things that really smart people do and care about.
callow
immature;
Teens could show callow disregard for the feelings of others.
hackneyed
overused, stale, trite;
The creationism issue had been discussed so much as to become hackneyed.
harbinger
a forerunner, a signal of;
Warm weather is a harbinger of spring.
hapless
unlucky;
His hapless search for fun led him from one disappointment to another.
salient
sticking out, conspicuous, leaping;
She had few salient features including…
catholic
universal, embracing everything;
disparage
play down / belittle;
I don’t mean to disparage your achievements.
equivocate
to use words in a calculated effort to mislead or to be ambiguous;
He is equivocating a lot about what is going to happen
equivocal
purposely vague;
She gave an equivocal answer, typical of a politician.
vociferous
loud, noise, clamorous;
vociferous protests
vocal
referring to the voice;
skillful or fluent in expressing by voice
vocalize
to gove voice to;
to express aloud; to sing; vocalized your idea
titillation
pleasurable stimulation
adulation
excessive flattery, exaggerated admiration; thirst for adulation
adulatory
worshipful;
proscription
prohibition against something injurious;
the proscription against any religious service;
benedictory
involving a blessings;
such a benedictory and appropriate poetry recital
beneficient
showing kindness, giving help;
the beneficent powers of Nature
benefactor
one who does stb good, kind or charitable for another;
benefactress
female one who does sth good, kind or charitable for another;
benefaction
a donation or gift;
an exceptional benefaction
beneficiary
a person who gains as a result of sth;
Who will be the main beneficiary of the cuts in income tax?
benevolent
(especially of people in authority) kind, helpful and generous; a benevolent smile/attitude
bona fide
sincere, valid, in good faith;
The jeweler stated the large diamond was bona fide and valuable.
fidelity
faithfulness;
infidel
non-beliver in the “true” religion;
infidelity
unfaithfulness;
dictatorial
tending to give orders;
volition
the power to choose sth freely or to make your own decisions;
on/of one’s own volition (=자기 의사로, 자유 의지로),
They left entirely of their volition. (그들 의사로 떠난 것임)
impartial
fair, unbiased;
Jurors are supposed to be impartial.
implement
to carry out;
The government is better at creating new laws than at implementing them.
pristine
original, unspoiled, pure;
An antique in pristine condition
prodigious
extraordinary; enormous;
a prodigious research grant
banal
unoriginal, ordinary;
Mrs. Garnett’s classroom is a bastion of banality.
bane
poison, torment, cause of harm;
She is the bane of my existence. 암적인 존재.
bastion
stronghold, fortress, fortified place;
Mrs. Garnett’s classroom is a bastion of banality.
beget
to give birth to, to create, to lead to;
One lie begets another lie.
belabor
to go over repeatedly or to and absurd extent; 장황하게 논하다, 애쓰다
The boring speaker spent the entire period belaboring the obvious.
beleaguer
to surround, to besiege;
I felt beleaguered at work.
belie
to give an false impression of, to contradict;
His smile belied the grief he was feeling.
belittle
to make to seem little;
belittle efforts. belittling comments
belligerent
combative, quarrelsome, waging war;
A bully is belligerent.
bemused
confused, bewildered;
The two stood bemused in the middle of the parking lot.
benign
gentle, not harmful;
The lump on his leg turned out to be benign.
The threat of revolution turned out to be benign.
Her personality is benign.
bequest
sth left to someone in a will(유언으로 남긴 것);
The money is a bequest from him to you.
bereaved
deprived or left desolate, especially through death(죽음 등으로 홀로 남겨진, 상심한);
The widow was still bereaved.
beset
to harass, to surround;
The bereaved widow was beset by grief.
pensive
thoughtful and sad(우수에 젖은, 시름에 젖은);
The gloomy weather made everyone feel pensive.
blasphemy
irreverence, an insult to sth held sacred, profanity;
commit blasphemy 불경을 저지르다
blatant
unpleasantly or offensively noisy, glaring;
David was blatantly critical of our efforts.
불쾌할 정도로 시끄럽게 우리의 성과를 비판했다.
blithe
carefree, cheerful;
blithe birds, playing blithely
bovine
cow related, cowlike;
A fat or mooring person is bovine.
brevity
briefness 간결함;
brevity of the speaker’s remarks
brevity of this example
broach (the subject of ~ to/with~)
to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicated subject; (종종 민감한) 주제를 내놓다
No one knows how to broach the subject of how silly grandmothers look in leather with her.
bucolic
charmingly rural, rustic; 매혹적으로 목가적인
The bucolic scence
cogent
forceful and convincing;
- the cogent proof
- the doctor’s cogent statement about my strong need for the surgery.
bureaucracy
수많은 국이나 부로 구성된 전부기관, 특히 융통성이 없고 비효율적인 규정에 의해서 운영되는 것. 비능률, 형식주의로 대변되는 대규모의 행정체계
burgeon
to expand, to flourish;
The burgeoning weeds
burlesque
a ludicrous, mocking or exaggerated imitation’
익살극
circumlocution
an indirect expression, use of wordy or evasive language(간접적이거나 장황하게 둘러대는 말);
evade questions by resorting to circumlocution
circumscribe
to draw a line around, to set the limits;
The Constitution clearly circumscribes the restrictions that can be placed on our personal freedoms
circumspect
cautious;
The general was so circumspect.
circumvent
to frustrate as though by surrounding 완전히 포위하는 것처럼 해서 실패하게 만들다;
circumvent the effort (노력을 무위로 만들다)
clemency
mercy, mildness;
The judge displayed clemency in giving him a suspended sentence. ;
clement weather;
