Deck 03 Flashcards
Convalesce
To recovery health and strength after illness; make progress toward recovery of health
Enfeebled
To make feeble; weaken
Ambrosial
Exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant
Worthy of the gods; divine
Deprecated
To express earnest disapproval of
To urge reasons against; protest against
To depreciate; belittle
To pray for deliverance from
Anecdotal
Based on personal observation, case study reports, or random investigations rather than systematic scientific evaluation
Depilation
To remove the hair from (hides, skin, etc..)
Harbinger
Person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald
Anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign
Decried
To speak disparagingly of; denounce as faulty or worthless; express censure of
Imbibe
To consume by drinking; drink
To absorb or soak up, as water, light or heat
To take or receive into the mind, as knowledge/ideas
Quaff
To drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment
Indignant
Feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base
Disaffect
To alienate the affection, sympathy, or support of; make discontented or disloyal
Dogged
Persistent in effort; stubbornly tenacious
Daedalian
Daedalus - Athenian architect who built the labyrinth for Minos and made wings for himself and son Icarus to escape from Crete
Herculean
Requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform
Gordian
Pertaining to Gordius, ancient King of Phrygia, who tied a knot (the Gordian knot) that according to prophecy, was to be undone only by the person that was to rule Asia, and that was cut, rather than untied, by Alexander the Great
Resembling the Gordian knot in intricacy
“Cut the Gordian Knot” - to act quickly and decisively in a difficult situation; solve a problem boldly
Picayune
Of little value or account; small; trifling
Petty, carping, or prejudiced
Any small coin, as a five-cent piece
Middling
Medium in size/quality/quantity
Mediocre; ordinary; commonplace; pedestrian
In fairly good health
Irradiation
Intellectual or spiritual enlightenment
A ray of light; beam
Apparent enlargement of an object when seen against a dark background
Ebbing
Flowing back of the tide as the water returns to the sea
Flowing backward or away; decline or decay; fade away
