Chapter 4 Flashcards
Audacious
Willing to be bold in social situations or take risks
Lambast
Criticize severely or angrily
Inexorable
Impossible to stop or prevent
Aesthete
One who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature
Apathetic
Marked by a lack of interest
Superfluous
More than is needed desired or required
Querulous
Habitually complaining
Volubility
The quality of talking or writing easily or continuously
Predilection
A strong liking
Frivolous
Not serious
Vociferous
Conspicuously and offensively loud
Glut
An excessive supply
Specious
Fallacious
Timorous
Meek
Subversion
Undermining of power and authority of an established system or institution
Affected
Artificial
Engendered
Cause or give rise to
Occasioned
To cause something
Dissemble
To lie/ conceal
Feign
Fake
Tractable
Manageable
Doggedness
Someone who never gives up
Tenacity
Probity
Morality
Pertinacity
Doggedness
Tenacity
Admonished
Rebuked, reprimanded
Spurious
Fake
Counterfeit
Plausible but false
Connoisseur
Expert
Chauvinism
Excessive patriotism
Mitigate
Make less severe or harsh
Rustic
Characteristic of rural life, awkwardly simple and provincial
Incisive
Having or demonstrating ability to recognise or draw fine distinctions
Mawkish
Overly sentimental to the point that it is disgusting
Gainsay
Deny or contradict, speak against or oppose
Chortle
To chuckle, laugh merrily often in a breathy, muffled way
