Day 10-12 Flashcards
Disillusion
To free from or deprive of illusion
Sporadic
Infrequent, irregular
Conflagration
Destructive fire
Amalgamate
To mix, to combine
Aberration
Something different from the usual
Analogous
Comparable, similar, parallel
Deride
To scoff, ridicule, mock
Patrician
Aristocrat
Chide
To scold, express disapproval
Resuscitate
To revive, to bring back to life
Insolence
An attitude or behavior that is bold and disrespectful
Substantiate
To verify or support by evidence
Belie
To present a false or contradictory argument
Coalesce
To grow together or cause to unite as one
Equanimity
Calmness, composure
Truculent
Aggressive, hostile, belligerent
Abstruse
Difficult to understand
Unequivocal
Absolute, certain
Esoteric
Understood by only a learned few
Stilted
Stifle, unnatural
Presumptuous
Going beyond the limits of courtesy or appropriateness
Pedagogue
Teacher
Restitution
Act of compensating for loss or damage
Exacerbate
To aggravate, worsen
Mar
To damage, deface, spoil
Denounce
To accuse, blame, decry
Spurious
Not genuine or authentic
Opt
To decide to leave or withdraw, to make a choice
Supplant
Replace, substitute, displace
Finagle
To trick, swindle, cheat
Winnow
To drive, blow away
Exult
To rejoice, extreme happiness
Cabal
Small group of secret plotters
Tawdry
Gaudy, cheap, showy
Unremitting
Not slackening or abating, incessant
Taut
Emotionally or mentally strained or tense
Unequivocal
Absolute, unqualified
Rhetoric
Persuasive use of language
Surfeit
Excessive amount, exceeded
Juxtapose
To put side by side
Phlegmatic
Sluggish and unemotional in temperament
Apathy
Lack of concern, interest, or emotion
Penurious
extremely frugal, stingy, curmudgeon
frugal
spending little, thirfty
thereafter
after that in time, sequence
transcend
surperior, surpass, excel
abash
to destroy the self-confidence
taciturn
inclined to silence, reserved in speech
ancillary
subordinate, subsidiary, assisting
taxonomy
science of classification
accost
approach, especially with a greeting
convene
to meet, to come together, to assemble
tangential
digressing, diverting
culmination
climax, final stage
exobitant
extravagant, greater than reasonable
mitigate
to make less severe, to relieve
squelch
to put down, suppress, silence
alacrity
promptness, speed
recriminate
to accuse, often in response to an accusation
avow
to declare frankly or openly
exacerbate
to make worse or more sever
delineate
to outline, describe