Day 25-27 Flashcards
portend
to indicate a future
tedium
boredom, tiresome
blight
to afflict, to destroy
prodigal
wastefully or recklessly extravagent
impugn
to challenge as false
expropriate
to seize ownership
fractious
troublesome, unruly
paucity
smallness of quantity, scarcity
incisive
perceptive, penetrating
capitulate
to submit completely
acrimonious
biting, harsh, caustic
sycophant
self-serving flatterer
recalcitrant
resisting authority or control
castigate
to punish, chastise
ostracize
to exclude from a group
belabor
to explain, worry about
espouse
to support to advocate
ubiquitous
existing everywhere, omnipresent
virulent
actively poisonous, hostile
enervate
to reduce the energy or strength
corroborate
supporting with evidence
desultory
at random, rambling
peremptory
leaving no opportunity for denial
torpid
inactive, sluggish
countermand
to annul, cancel
mercurial
quick, changeable
maladroit
clumsy, bungling
harbinger
frontier, precursor, forefather
commodious
roomy, spacious
banal
devoid of freshness or quality
eclectic
selective
continence
self-control, self restrained
placate
to appease, pacify
choleric
extremely irritable or easily angered
jocular
joking, jesting, waggish
demarcation
borderline, act of defining or marking a boundary
ply
to use diligently, to engage
impute
to credit or give responsibility
strident
grating, creaking
discomfit
to frustrate
obdurate
unwilling to change, stubborn
vignette
decorative design
sequester
to remove, be set apart
juducious
wise, sensible, well advised
remiss
negligent, lazy
lithe
bending readily, pliant, flexible
despondent
feeling or showing profound hopelessness
rectitude
rightness of principle or conduct
decrepit
weakened by old age, feeble
spurious
lacking authenticity, counterfeit
squalid
filthy, morally repulsive
duplicity
deception
devoid
deplete, strip
remuneration
something that rewards, pay
perquisite
benefit, privilege
venal
characterized by bribery
fallow
not in use
frenetic
widely frantic
chimerical
unreal, imaginary