deck1800 Flashcards
illicit
adj. Unlawful.
collide
v. To meet and strike violently.
trident
n. The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune.
sinus
n. An opening or cavity.
continence
n. Self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites, and passion.
visual
adj. Perceptible by sight.
transfusible
adj. Capable of being poured from one vessel to another.
philosophy
n. The general principles, laws, or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything.
tortious
adj. Wrongful.
prevaricate
v. To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention.
bleak
adj. Desolate.
paronymous
adj. Derived from the same root or primitive word.
intercessor
n. A mediator.
anatomy
n. That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.
misplace
v. To put into a wrong place.
philanthropist
n. One who endeavors to help his fellow men.
fallible
adj. Capable of erring.
profession
n. Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines.
obsequies
n. Funeral rites.
infamous
adj. Publicly branded or notorious, as for vice, or crime.
caucus
n. A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
whine
v. To utter with complaining tone.
trebly
adv. Triply.
irradiate
v. To render clear and intelligible.
instructive
adj. Conveying knowledge.
propagate
v. To spread abroad or from person to person.
intramural
adj. Situated within the walls of a city.
indigestible
adj. Not digestible, or difficult to digest.
awry
adv. & adj. Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
susceptibility
n. A specific capability of feeling or emotion.
illuminant
n. That which may be used to produce light.
havoc
n. Devastation.
reluctant
adj. Unwilling.
vaccinate
v. To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox.
betrothal
n. Engagement to marry.
superannuate
v. To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service.
buffoonery
n. Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc.
indulgent
adj. Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one’s care.
wry
adj. Deviating from that which is proper or right.
occlude
v. To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
initiate
v. To perform the first act or rite.
inconsequential
adj. Valueless.
retrieve
v. To recover something by searching.
ceremonial
adj. Characterized by outward form or ceremony.
orthodoxy
n. Acceptance of the common faith.
faun
n. One of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet.
diplomatic
adj. Characterized by special tact in negotiations.
unspeakable
adj. Abominable.
coalition
n. Combination in a body or mass.
cohere
v. To stick together.
beget
v. To produce by sexual generation.
arrant
adj. Notoriously bad.
ashen
adj. Pale.
colossus
n. Any strikingly great person or object.
adjacent
n. That which is near or bordering upon.
impair
v. To cause to become less or worse.
energetic
adj. Working vigorously.
shiftless
adj. Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
immune
adj. Exempt, as from disease.
beau
n. An escort or lover.
dramatize
v. To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner.
turpitude
n. Depravity.
debase
v. To lower in character or virtue.
discriminate
v. To draw a distinction.
liquidate
v. To deliver the amount or value of.
formation
n. Relative disposition of parts.
obsolescence
n. The condition or process of gradually falling into disuse.
maroon
v. To put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island.
eccentric
adj. Peculiar.
valedictory
n. A parting address.
analogous
adj. Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations.
optician
n. One who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses.
prurient
adj. Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
disarrange
v. To throw out of order.
itinerant
adj. Wandering.
octogenarian
adj. A person of between eighty and ninety years.
piccolo
n. A small flute.
exempt
adj. Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others.
percolate
v. To filter.
demerit
n. A mark for failure or bad conduct.
legislate
v. To make or enact a law or laws.
fervent
adj. Ardent in feeling.
arbitrate
v. To act or give judgment as umpire.
mystic
n. One who professes direct divine illumination, or relies upon meditation to acquire truth.
formula
n. Fixed rule or set form.
systematic
adj. Methodical.
freemason
n. A member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans.
personality
n. The attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual.
metal
n. An element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous.
rotary
adj. Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
overdose
n. An excessive dose, usually so large a dose of a medicine that its effect is toxic.
maxim
n. A principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide.
sagacious
adj. Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
vista
n. A view or prospect.
forby
adv. Besides.
propulsion
n. A driving onward or forward.
incombustible
adj. That can not be burned.
preferable
adj. More desirable than others.
claimant
n. One who makes a claim or demand, as of right.
interrogate
v. To examine formally by questioning.
supine
adj. Lying on the back.
Epicurean
adj. Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite.
trammel
n. An impediment.
cite
v. To refer to specifically.
candor
n. The quality of frankness or outspokenness.
bibliophile
n. One who loves books.
exhaustion
n. Deprivation of strength or energy.
consternation
n. Panic.
alienation
n. Estrangement.
pervasion
n. The state of spreading through every part.
devilry
n. Malicious mischief.
gluttonous
adj. Given to excess in eating.
vitality
n. The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance.
enormity
n. Immensity.
mannerism
n. Constant or excessive adherence to one manner, style, or peculiarity, as of action or conduct.
tilth
n. Cultivation.
rightful
adj. Conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage.
navel
n. The depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached.
expiate
v. To make satisfaction or amends for.
berth
n. A bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc.
eschew
v. To keep clear of.
globose
adj. Spherical.
zeitgeist
n. The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.
adulterate
v. To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
enfeeble
v. To debilitate.
formidable
adj. Difficult to accomplish.
dendroid
adj. Like a tree.
perceive
v. To have knowledge of, or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses.
incapacity
n. Want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage.
rendition
n. Interpretation.
courageous
adj. Brave.
motto
n. An expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life, or faith.
accost
v. To speak to.
disavow
v. To disclaim responsibility for.
averse
adj. Reluctant.
antiseptic
n. Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.
original
adj. Not copied nor produced by imitation.
ineligible
adj. Not suitable to be selected or chosen.
efficient
adj. Having and exercising the power to produce effects or results.
precipitant
adj. Moving onward quickly and heedlessly.
discussion
n. Debate.
cudgel
n. A short thick stick used as a club.
potent
adj. Physically powerful.
congeal
v. To coagulate.
felon
n. A criminal or depraved person.
unisonant
adj. Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.
ministration
n. Any religious ceremonial.
acknowledgment
n. Recognition.
gusto
n. Keen enjoyment.
niggardly
adj. Stingy. (no longer acceptable to use)
pincers
n. An instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot.
cataract
n. Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness.
hysteria
n. A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying.
incoercible
adj. Incapable of being forced, constrained, or compelled.
aforesaid
adj. Said in a preceding part or before.
consummate
v. To bring to completion.
telescope
v. To drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass.
accommodate
v. To furnish something as a kindness or favor.
fanatic
n. A religious zealot.
dilute
v. To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something.
extremity
n. The utmost point, side, or border, or that farthest removed from a mean position.
autocrat
n. Any one who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence.
advent
n. The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage.
outweigh
v. To surpass in importance or excellence.
gravity
n. Seriousness.
competence
n. Adequate qualification or capacity.
intricate
adj. Difficult to follow or understand.
sidelong
adj. Inclining or tending to one side.
effeminacy
n. Womanishness.
frigidarium
n. A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc.
acrimony
n. Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
moderation
n. Temperance.
sociable
adj. Inclined to seek company.
committal
n. The act, fact, or result of committing, or the state of being
exigent
adj. Urgent.
indict
v. To find and declare chargeable with crime.
coercive
adj. Serving or tending to force.
juror
n. One who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice.
intricacy
n. Perplexity.
monetary
adj. Financial.
vagabond
n. A wanderer.
belligerent
adj. Manifesting a warlike spirit.
swarthy
adj. Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion.
carnivorous
adj. Eating or living on flesh.
congenial
adj. Having kindred character or tastes.
pennant
n. A small flag.
orthodox
adj. Holding the commonly accepted faith.
overshadow
v. To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
subterfuge
n. Evasion.
elasticity
n. That property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed.
excerpt
n. An extract or selection from written or printed matter.
scope
n. A range of action or view.
alabaster
n. A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
aggrieve
v. To give grief or sorrow to.
venereal
adj. Pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse.
poetics
n. The rules and principles of poetry.
ingraft
v. To set or implant deeply and firmly.
off
adj. Farther or more distant.
salvo
n. A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
eradicate
v. To destroy thoroughly.
