Deck C Flashcards
cark
to burden oneself with worries
Many cark themselves about the future, not me.
meritorious
worthy of praise
The meritorious conduct of the Ukrainian’s serves as reminder to all that Freedom is not Free.
eschew
do without
I must eschew chips.
reprove
to criticize and correct others
Like, when he reproved my short dress, I was totally crushed , like, you know.
pique
to trigger ones interest
The Lecture on Pyramid Power in Maui piqued my interest.
crabbed
crotchety and ill-humored
The crabbed old woman laughed when the dog bit me.
rubiginous
rusty
The rubiginous Japanese Zero rested on the bottom of Truk Lagoon.
repetend
a repeated word
The repetend “Nevermore” is instantly recognizable.
forbearance
noun
time alone
Give me forbearance.
vouchsafed
to granted an explanation
Jesus vouchsafed his divinity to only a few disciples.
struthius
ostrich like
The struthius handling by CNN of the Hunter laptop debacle is pathetic for a company that claims to be about the news.
vanguard
the leading edge of an army
The Russian vanguard encountered stiff resistance.
obstreporous
stubbornly defiant
Smollet, like OJ, remains obstreporous that he is innocent.
fugacious
fleeting tending to disappear
Youth and good looks are fugacious.
fushion
strength in Scottish
I have regained my fushion.
layettes
clothes and toiletries for newborns
In a rush to get his pregnant wife to the hospital , the husband forgot the layettes.
verisimilitude
authenticity
Putin’s rage gave verisimilitude that the invasion had not gone to plan.
commonweal
the common interest
At first, mandatory vaccination and masks seemed the commonweal. Now both have proven nugatory.
nugatory
worthless
Masks and current vaccines are nugatory.
prorogue
to delay or put off
He let his cowardice prorogue his decision to become a policeman.
enmity
mutual hatred
The enmity of Ukraine and Russia will prolong this war unnecessarily.
libertine
one leading a dissolute Life
Cleopatra! Keep the libertine entwined in your limbs.
derogate
to cause something to seem inferior
Do not derogate my achievements.
imputation
falsely blaming someone
Biden’s imputation of Putin for the USA inflation problem is bullshit.
superannuation
becoming useless with age
Superannuation is a modern problem where only youth is revered.
inurement
resigned acceptance of mistreatment
The inurement of the many to draconian vaccine mandates will doom many to long term health problems.
gorgonize
to paralyze with fear
The Mothman gorgonized the youths.
delassation
weariness
My delassation is always profound following Miami trips.
thunder-plump
heavy rainfall during a thunderstorm
The thunder-plump last night was thrilling and wild.
digmix
a disagreeable chore
Cleaning the pig sty was the ultimate digmix.
metonymy
a figure of speech
Mark Anthony used metonymy in “ countrymen lend me your ears”.
pulchritude
physical beauty
The pulchritude on Duval is distracting.
maladroit
clumsy
His maladroit handling of The Afghanistan Withdrawal put into question his ability to lead.
delope
to fire ones dueling pistol into the air to signify the desire to cease hostilities
Putin will never delope.
jeremiad
a wailing of protestation against injustice
The jeremiads of lesbians against the reversal of Roe v Wade is ironic.
boodle
money obtained illicitly in politics
Hunter will be stripped of his boodle.
casuistry
clever but specious reasoning
No one is falling for the Democratic casuistry that this is Putin’s fault.
eudaemonia
happiness achieved by devotion to moral obligations
Eudaemonia is an impetus for men to join the priesthood.
priapic
concerning the phallus
At first I thought his rushing off to her was simply a priapic imperative.
tu quoque
tu =you quoque=also
a retort accusing another of hypocritical actions
Biden said to Putin, “You caused our inflation !” and he replied “ tu quoque.”
revirescence
the act becoming young again
In mice, mouse poop transplants causes revirescence. I think I will just die.
xerosis
the aging of skin characterized by dryness and wrinkles
Billions of dollars are spent be women trying to avoid xerosis.
pacable
easily appeased
Amy is far more pacable than myself.
sessle
to move about restlessly
Mom with her dementia is constantly sessle.
summum bonum
the supreme or highest good
Self-rule continues to tyrannize liberal ideologies, secure in its place as the summum bonum.
defi
a challenge
What cretin would hurl a defi at a desperate nuclear power?
unshirted
undisguised
My unshirted hatred towards liberalist agendas means I do not have a lot of friends in New Jersey…Thank God!
maleferous
producing evil
Stalin and Hitler are tied as the ne plus ultra maleferous villains of the 20th Century.
invious
untrod, pristine
The leaves along both roads in “The Road Not Taken” were both invious.
hylogenesis
the origin of dark matter
If it even exists, the hylogenesis of dark matter is enigmatic.
ecbole
eck buh lee
a digression and diversion in speech
Faced with failure on all fronts , Biden launched into his standard ecbole of the problems of Maga.
quizzically
amusingly curious
Her liberal rant ongoing, he looked up quizzically at her.
banausic
purely mechanical and uninspired
He churned out his banausic art.
quidnunc
a nosy busybody
The quidnuncs across the street turned in Paul for lacking a permit to build the deck.
litterateur
one well versed in literature
I consider myself a litterateur.
prospicience
the action of looking forward and anticipating a result
Assimov’s prospicience about telecommunications satellites was 100% correct.
cloven
split in two
The cloven ice cream dessert satisfied the twins, who then ceased warring with one another.
redivivus
come back to life
The redivivus Frankenstein terrorized the peasantry.
