Deck 4 Flashcards
Sanguine
confident or optimistic
Profligates
pl.n. promiscuous or unprincipled people
Assimilate
v. to take in, thoroughly understand
Slake
v. to quench
Allay
v. to reduce in intensity
Whet
v. to sharpen or intensify
Surfeit
v. to overindulge
Steel
v. to prepare or brace
Toadies
flatterers, sycophants
Heralds
messengers
Tyro
a beginner or novice
Protean
versatile, ever-changing
Espousal of
support for
Occult
hidden
Sallow
jaundiced
Rubicund, Flushed, Ruddy
having a healthy reddish hue
Trenchant
incisive, articulate, pointed
Blithe
casual/indifferent in an improper or inappropriate way
Fleetly
quickly
Quiescence
state of inactivity
Artless
open or honest, not deceitful
Affected
artificial, designed to impress
Rococo
highly ornamented artistic style
Vagaries
whims
Conciliatory
placating or reconciling