Day 4 Flashcards
vitality
n. state and quality of being alive
anesthetic
n. anything which produces a loss of sensation, numbing agent
swipe
v. to hit with a sweeping motion
monotheism
n. belief in one God
lechery
gross lewdness; lustfulness
outwit
v. outsmart; to defeat by behaving more cleverly
continence
self-restraint; sexual chastity; sexual abstinence
antler
n. bony growth on the head of a deer
charisma
divine gift; great popular charm or appeal; magnetism
intermingle
v. to mix together
abscond
v. to depart secretly and hide
lachrymose
adj. doleful, depressed, mournful
shiftless
adj. useless, lazy
effete
adj. having lost one’s original power; barren; worn out; exhausted; 정력빠진, 여성적인
disbar
v. make a lawyer leave the bar or the legal profession
lugubrious
adj. mournful; very sad
flay
v. to strip off skin; plunder; remove the skin from; criticize harshly
bluff
v. to put up a false front
momentous
adj. important
perimeter
n. outer boundary; circumference
patronizing
adj. belittling
litotes
understatement for emphasis
ex. not bad = pretty good
mischance
n. ill luck
upright
adj. n. virtuous, having moral integrity
rolling
v. rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages
diurnal
adv. daily
calorific
adj. heat producing
hibernal
adj. wintery
resignation
n. patiently submissiveness; statement that one is quitting a job
intimidate *
adj. frighten
choreography
n. art of representing dances in written symbols; arrangement of dances
intermediary
adj. n. intermediate; acting as a mediator
idiom
n. expression whose meaning as a whole differs from the meanings of its individual words
roguish
adj. dishonest, mischievous or playful
ecstatic
adj. extremely happy
obsessive
adj. related to thinking about something constantly; of an obsession; preoccupying
septic
adj. of or causing sepsis; putrid; producing putrefaction; infected with microorganisms
brave
v. face courageously
vampire
n. ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living
lace
n. cord used to draw and tie together two opposite edges as of a shoe
necromancy
n. black magic; sorcery; dealings with the dead
denouement
n. outcome; final development of the plot of a play
archived
v. kept in store
backslide
v. to revert to bad habits