Ch 1 Flashcards
Salubrious
Promoting health or well-being
• carrots are salubrious for your eyes
Labile
[ley-buhl]
Readily open to change, unstable
• emotionally labile
Cacophony
Harsh, discordant sound
Dissonance
Ebullience
[ih-bool-yuhns]
High spirits, exuberance
• her ebullience was contagious
Bane
Noun
Cause of injury, source of harm or persistent frustration
• smoking is far more bane than benefit
Welter
To toss about, to be in turmoil
• the sea weltered in the storm
Waft
A light breeze, a puff
Sagacious
Having sound judgment, perceptive wise
• sagacious decision
Unfeigned
[uhn-feynd]
Genuine, not false or hypocritical
Catalyst
Accelerates the rate of chemical reaction, person/thing that causes change
Cadge
[kaj]
To beg, sponge, mooch
• he was always cadging change from me
Panegyric
[pan-i-jir-ik]
Formal expression of praise
Qualify
To modify or limit in some way; make less strong or positive
• to qualify an endorsement
Salient
Prominent, protruding, conspicuous , highly relevant
Umbrage
Offense, resentment
• I decided not to take umbrage at his insult
Beatify
[bee-at-uh-fahy]
To bless, make happy
To regard as saintly
Fallow
Inactive, dormant, not in use
Jocose
Humorous, playful
• a jocose and amusing manner
Rapacious
Greedy, plundering,subsisting on prey
Pandemic
Widespread, occurring over a large area
Daunt
To intimidate or dismay, to overcome with fear
Obeisance
Gesture that expresses deference, such as a bow/curtsy
Garner
To gather and save, store up, acquire
Abate
To lessen in intensity or degree
• the storm had abated
Malinger
[muh-ling-ger]
To pretend illness
Venal
Capable of being bought or bribed
Fallacy
An invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief
Lassitude
Listlessness, weariness, lack of energy
• those 2 push ups filled me with lassitude for the rest of the day
Damp
V
(v) to diminish the intensity
To check something
Natty
Trimly neat and tidy
