Day 1 Flashcards
Alacrity
n. Cheerful willingness; eagerness.
n. Speed or quickness; celerity.
“The party gathered itself up with alacrity from the grass.”
“And you may know by my size that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the bottom were as deep as hell, I should down.”
Prosaic
adj. Consisting or characteristic of prose.
adj. Matter-of-fact; straightforward. adj. Lacking in imagination and spirit; dull.
“The prosaic is an affair of description and narration, of details accumulated and relations elaborated, It spreads as it goes like a legal document or catalogue.”
Veracity
n. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness. See Synonyms at truth.
n. Conformity to fact or truth; accuracy or precision: a report of doubtful veracity. n. Something that is true
“The veracity issue HAS been settled – the right wing bloggers who thought he was a hoax turned out to be lacking in veracity and have no credibility on the issue and instead just went in search of other reasons they made up.”
Paucity
n. Smallness of number; fewness.
n. Scarcity; dearth: a paucity of natural resources.
The Blur frontman said he would not be taking part in Live 8 and called the paucity of African and black artists on the bill an “oversight” on the part of the organizers.”
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Maintain
v. To keep up or carry on; continue: maintain good relations.
v. To keep in an existing state; preserve or retain: maintain one’s composure.
v. To keep in a condition of good repair or efficiency: maintain two cars.
v. To provide for; support: maintain a family.
v. To keep in existence; sustain: enough food to maintain life.
v. To defend or hold against criticism or attack: maintained his stand on taxes.
v. To declare to be true; affirm: maintained her innocence.
v. To adhere or conform to; keep: maintain a busy schedule.
Contrite
adj. Feeling regret and sorrow for one’s sins or offenses; penitent.
adj. Arising from or expressing contrition: contrite words.
“Sharpton had 20 long years to consider what he did and appeared contrite in his published apology.”
Laconic
adj. Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise. See Synonyms at silent.
He loved discreetly, knowing the stigma there is in scandal, laconic to the end.”
Pugnacious
Disposed to fight; quarrelsome; given to fighting: as, a pugnacious fellow; a pugnacious disposition.
Synonyms Contentious.
“On the middle step was what vaguely resembled a cat but could more correctly be described as a pugnacious face in the middle of an otherwise featureless ragged dirty grey furball.”
Disparate
adj. Fundamentally distinct or different in kind; entirely dissimilar: “This mixture of apparently disparate materials—scandal and spiritualism, current events and eternal recurrences—is not promising on the face of it” ( Gary Wills).
adj. Containing or composed of dissimilar or opposing elements: a disparate group of people who represented a cross section of the city.
Egregious
adj. Conspicuously bad or offensive. See Synonyms at flagrant.
“Even though the armed forces were then segregated by law and otherwise engaged in egregious discrimination against blacks, the NAACP and other civil rights organizations supported military recruiting because they recognized that the enemies the military was fighting were far worse than the racist injustices of the armed forces themselves.”
Voracious
adj. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous.
adj. Having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy: a voracious reader.
“The appetite which has been voracious is now satisfied with a normal meal, the carbohydrate of which is utilized, and the patient loses the persistent craving for food.”
Eminent
adj. Of high rank, station, or quality; noteworthy: eminent members of the community.
adj. Outstanding, as in character or performance; distinguished: an eminent historian. See Synonyms at noted.
adj. Towering or standing out above others; prominent: an eminent peak.
Replete
adj. Abundantly supplied; abounding: a stream replete with trout; an apartment replete with Empire furniture.
adj. Filled to satiation; gorged.
n. One who or that which is replete or full; specifically, a worker-ant which stores such large quantities of honey-dew or other liquid food in its crop that its gaster is greatly distended and assumes a spherical or subspherical form; also plerergate
Indiscriminate
adj. Not making or based on careful distinctions; unselective: an indiscriminate shopper; indiscriminate taste in music.
adj. Random; haphazard: indiscriminate violence; an indiscriminate assortment of used books for sale.
adj. Confused; chaotic: the indiscriminate policies of the previous administration.
adj. Unrestrained or wanton; profligate: indiscriminate spending.
Steeped
adj. Having a sharp inclination; precipitous.
adj. At a rapid or precipitous rate: a steep rise in salaries.
adj. Excessive; stiff: a steep price.
adj. Ambitious; difficult: a steep undertaking.
n. A precipitous slope.
v. To soak in liquid in order to cleanse, soften, or extract a given property from.
v. To infuse or subject thoroughly to.
v. To make thoroughly wet; saturate.
v. To undergo a soaking in liquid. n. The act or process of steeping.
n. The state of being steeped.
n. A liquid, bath, or solution in which something is steeped.
