deck200 Flashcards
didactic
adj. Pertaining to teaching.
fortify
v. To provide with defensive works.
antispasmodic
adj. Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections.
metaphysical
adj. Philosophical.
inaccessible
adj. Difficult of approach.
pious
adj. Religious.
prohibitionist
n. One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
illimitable
adj. Boundless.
distiller
n. One occupied in the business of distilling alcoholic liquors.
convoy
n. A protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation.
cartridge
n. A charge for a firearm, or for blasting.
protract
v. To prolong.
vocative
adj. Of or pertaining to the act of calling.
unbelief
n. Doubt.
slothful
adj. Lazy.
pique
v. To excite a slight degree of anger in.
metaphor
n. A figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other.
dismount
v. To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like.
preparatory
adj. Having to do with what is preliminary.
constable
n. An officer whose duty is to maintain the peace.
interdict
n. Authoritative act of prohibition.
influx
n. Infusion.
meddlesome
adj. Interfering.
convolve
v. To move with a circling or winding motion.
transatlantic
adj. Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
morbid
adj. Caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind.
lifelike
adj. Realistic.
liking
n. Fondness.
oblong
adj. Longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated
merciful
adj. Disposed to pity and forgive.
Scriptural
adj. Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures.
somber
adj. Gloomy.
centimeter
n. A length of one hundredth of a meter.
corroboration
n. Confirmation.
principal
adj. Most important.
denote
v. To designate by word or mark.
bellicose
adj. Warlike.
usury
n. The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law.
penetrate
v. To enter or force a way into the interior parts of.
underworld
n. Hades.
reminiscent
adj. Pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest.
pertinacious
adj. Persistent or unyielding.
adherence
n. Attachment.
summary
n. An abstract.
lough
n. A lake or loch.
recurrent
adj. Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
pandemonium
n. A fiendish or riotous uproar.
ancestry
n. One’s ancestors collectively.
shrivel
v. To draw or be drawn into wrinkles.
hypothesis
n. A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion.
perfectible
adj. Capable of being made perfect.
sanguineous
adj. Consisting of blood.
estuary
n. A wide lower part of a tidal river.
grief
n. Sorrow.
impertinence
n. Rudeness.
burgher
n. An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town.
obese
adj. Exceedingly fat.
apostle
n. Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
sacrificial
adj. Offering or offered as an atonement for sin.
depreciation
n. A lowering in value or an underrating in worth.
effete
adj. Exhausted, as having performed its functions.
exhaustible
adj. Causing or tending to cause exhaustion.
parricide
n. The murder of a parent.
tense
adj. Strained to stiffness.
scribe
n. One who writes or is skilled in writing.
olfactory
adj. of or pertaining to the sense of smell.
elusion
n. Evasion.
coincident
adj. Taking place at the same time.
kingship
n. Royal state.
hydraulic
adj. Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion.
sacrilege
n. The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
rebellious
adj. Insubordinate.
taxation
n. A levy, by government, of a fixed contribution.
misanthropic
adj. Hating mankind.
preexist
v. To exist at a period or in a state earlier than something else.
synod
n. An ecclesiastical council.
recognize
v. To recall the identity of (a person or thing).
abstinence
n. Self denial.
permutation
n. Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items.
amputate
v. To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body.
physique
n. The physical structure or organization of a person.
cower
v. To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
rigmarole
n. Nonsense.
sapient
adj. Possessing wisdom.
vagrant
n. An idle wanderer.
acme
n. The highest point, or summit.
proceed
v. To renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption.
darkling
adv. Blindly.
divertible
adj. Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established.
enigma
n. A riddle.
volitive
adj. Exercising the will.
staid
adj. Of a steady and sober character.
incongruous
adj. Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion.
cholera
n. An acute epidemic disease.
Hibernian
adj. Pertaining to Ireland, or its people.
thearchy
n. Government by a supreme deity.
hirsute
adj. Having a hairy covering.
idolize
v. To regard with inordinate love or admiration.
fete
n. A festival or feast.
comprehensible
adj. Intelligible.
tyranny
n. Absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated.
confinement
n. Restriction within limits or boundaries.
meditation
n. The turning or revolving of a subject in the mind.
duckling
n. A young duck.
economize
v. To spend sparingly.
perseverance
n. A persistence in purpose and effort.
neutral
adj. Belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants.
pervasive
adj. Thoroughly penetrating or permeating.
narrative
n. An orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event.
illumine
v. To make bright or clear.
creak
n. A sharp, harsh, squeaking sound.
Parisian
adj. Of or pertaining to the city of Paris.
aggravation
n. The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc.
complaisance
n. Politeness.
assiduous
adj. Diligent.
impeccable
adj. Blameless.
militant
adj. Of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency.
excitable
adj. Nervously high-strung.
covert
adj. Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
tutelage
n. The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
mirage
n. An optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert.
coagulant
adj. Producing coagulation.
exert
v. To make an effort.
subaquatic
adj. Being, formed, or operating under water.
hideous
adj. Appalling.
azure
n. The color of the sky.
logic
n. The science of correct thinking.
crystallize
v. To bring together or give fixed shape to.
wiry
adj. Thin, but tough and sinewy.
possessor
n. One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property.
bravo
interj. Well done.
theocrasy
n. The mixed worship of polytheism.
generally
adv. Ordinarily.
courtesy
n. Politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually.
disinterested
adj. Impartial.
chasten
v. To purify by affliction.
portent
n. Anything that indicates what is to happen.
latency
n. The state of being dormant.
excel
v. To be superior or distinguished.
impugn
v. To assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations.
alder
n. Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
monitory
n. Admonition or warning.
surcharge
n. An additional amount charged.
supplementary
adj. Being an addition to.
perversity
n. Wickedness.
reform
n. Change for the better.
advertiser
n. One who advertises, especially in newspapers.
quartet
n. A composition for four voices or four instruments.
entrails
n. pl. The internal parts of an animal.
frontier
n. The part of a nation’s territory that abuts upon another country.
premier
adj. First in rank or position.
outrage
n. A gross infringement of morality or decency.
heterogeneity
n. Unlikeness of constituent parts.
frizz
v. To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to.
translator
n. An interpreter.
canary
adj. Of a bright but delicate yellow.
symphony
n. A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
psychiatry
n. The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease.
proviso
n. A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.
piecemeal
adv. Gradually.
impermissible
adj. Not permissible.
verification
n. The act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate.
perspective
n. The relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view.
expostulate
v. To discuss.
commotion
n. A disturbance or violent agitation.
baste
v. To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking.
gallant
adj. Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit.
culvert
n. Any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road, canal.
indigence
n. Poverty.
immigrant
n. A foreigner who enters a country to settle there.
illiberal
adj. Stingy.
icon
n. An image or likeness.
rivulet
n. A small stream or brook.
censor
n. An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication.
petulant
adj. Displaying impatience.
eventual
adj. Ultimate.
opportunist
n. One who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends.
stringent
adj. Rigid.
stellar
adj. Pertaining to the stars.
remembrance
n. Recollection.
disregard
v. To take no notice of.
bedaub
v. To smear over, as with something oily or sticky.
logician
n. An expert reasoner.
subservient
adj. Servilely following another’s behests.
proselyte
n. One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.
makeup
n. The arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed.
inept
adj. Not fit or suitable.
onrush
n. Onset.
dastard
n. A base coward.
omniscient
adj. Characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge.
decalogue
n. The ten commandments.
beneficiary
n. One who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property.
aviary
n. A spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept.
plenteous
adj. Abundant.
mite
n. A very small amount, portion, or particle.
malediction
n. The calling down of a curse or curses.
estrange
v. To alienate.
ambiguous
adj. Having a double meaning.
termination
n. The act of ending or concluding.
perspicuous
adj. Lucid.
