Ch 4 Flashcards
Harrow (v)
[har oh]
To distress
Create stress or torment
Imbroglio (n)
[im brohl yoh]
Difficult or embarrassing situation
Misunderstanding
Laud (v)
[lahd]
To praise highly
Martinet (n)
[mar ti NET]
A rigid disciplinarian
Someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules
Neologism (n)
A new word, expression
Obstreperous (adj)
[ahb STREP uh rus]
Resisting control, noisy, loudly stubborn, boisterous
Paradigm (n)
Something that serves as a model, example, or pattern
The framework of assumption and understanding
Querulous (adj)
Prone to complaining
Full of complaints
Rarefy (v)
[RAYR uh fy]
To make or become thin, less dense, refine
Salutary (adj)
[SAL too ter ee]
Causing improvement , wholesome
Promoting beneficial purpose
Tautology (n)
[taw TAHL uh gee]
A repetition, a redundancy
A circular argument
Untenable (adj)
Incapable of being defended (argument , thesis)
Uninhabitable ( apartment, house)
Venerate (v)
To revere, honor, respect
Whet (n)
[wet]
To sharpen or stimulate
Abscond (v)
[ab SKAHND]
To depart in a sudden and secret manner
To steal off and hide
Belie (v)
[bih LYE]
To give a false impression of
To misrepresent
Calumniate (v)
To make a false accusation, to slander
Deleterious (adj)
[del uhTEER ee us]
Harmful, injurious
- deleterious influences
Efficacy
The ability to produce an intended result
Effectiveness
Fawn (v)
To flatter or praise excessively
Gauche (adj)
[gohsh]
Awkward, crude, tactless
Hedonism (n)
[HEE dun izm]
Devotion to pleasurable pursuits
Devotion to pleasure as a way of life
Imminent (adj)
About to happen
Impending
Lethargic (adj)
[luh THAR jij]
Characterized by drowsiness or sluggishness , lacking in energy
Maunder (v)
[MAHN dur]
To talk or move aimlessly
Mutter
Neophyte (n)
[NEE uh fyt]
A beginner, novice
A recent convert
Obtain (v)
To be established, accepted
To come into possession, acquire
Pariah (n)
[puh RY uh]
An outcast, a rejected and despised person
Quiescence (n)
[kwy ES unts]
Stillness, motionless
Quality of being at rest
Rebus (n)
[REE bus]
Riddle, a representation of words by pictures or symbols that sound like the words
