Chapter4 Flashcards
Casually
In a relax and informal way
Cumbrous
Cumbersome
Fulsome
Complimenting or flattering in an excessive degree
Large size or quantity
Stultified
Cause to lose enthusiasm
Spineless
Lacking resolution and weak
Hecklers
A person who interrupts another person giving speech with negative comments
Craven
Cowardly
Budge
To change an opinion
Milieu
A persons social environment
Belabor
Argue or elaborate
Attack or assault
Brash
Rude and overbearing
Smothered
Kill or extinguish with fire
Mantra
A word or sound repeated to aid concentration
Objurgate
Rebuke severely
Romanticized
Make seem better than it really is
Slight
To insult
Schmooze
Talk intimately and cozily
Gossip
Scheming
Making secret plan
Muckraking
Act of searching and publicizing scandalous information about famous people
Hobnob
Mix socially especially with those of high status
Annex
Add something
Heresy
Believe of something that is not orthodox
Reversion
To return to previous state
Litany
A long and tedious account of something
