deck3400 Flashcards
navigable
adj. Capable of commercial navigation.
remodel
v. Reconstruct.
anhydrous
adj. Withered.
sylph
n. A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
seance
n. A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
ill-natured
adj. Surly.
adverse
adj. Opposing or opposed.
iciness
n. The state of being icy.
qualification
n. A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege.
script
n. Writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form.
ocular
adj. Of or pertaining to the eye.
listless
adj. Inattentive.
embarrass
v. To render flustered or agitated.
phosphorescence
n. The property of emitting light.
doleful
adj. Melancholy.
annihilate
v. To destroy absolutely.
supramundane
adj. Supernatural.
involution
n. Complication.
inaccurate
adj. Not exactly according to the facts.
accumulate
v. To become greater in quantity or number.
obviate
v. To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty.
noxious
adj. Hurtful.
fervor
n. Ardor or intensity of feeling.
instance
n. A single occurrence or happening of a given kind.
comparative
adj. Relative.
prominent
adj. Conspicuous in position, character, or importance.
insuperable
adj. Invincible.
corpse
n. A dead body.
insomnia
n. Sleeplessness.
outlandish
adj. Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action.
extensive
adj. Extended widely in space, time, or scope.
humiliate
v. To put to shame.
theism
n. Belief in God.
afire
adv. & adj. On fire, literally or figuratively.
inverse
adj. Contrary in tendency or direction.
tangency
n. The state of touching.
remonstrate
v. To present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong.
suppress
v. To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
remiss
adj. Negligent.
conducive
adj. Contributing to an end.
seminary
n. A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
secede
v. To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
promissory
adj. Expressing an engagement to pay.
integrity
n. Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle.
ado
n. unnecessary activity or ceremony.
irritable
adj. Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation.
prodigious
adj. Immense.
acrimonious
adj. Full of bitterness.
Iliad
n. A Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy.
triplicate
adj. Composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts.
acid
n. A sour substance.
virile
adj. Masculine.
liner
n. A vessel belonging to a steamship-line.
naphtha
n. A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints.
sheer
adj. Absolute.
logical
adj. Capable of or characterized by clear reasoning.
potential
n. Anything that may be possible.
decasyllable
n. A line of ten syllables.
resemblance
n. Similarity in quality or form.
signification
n. The meaning conveyed by language, actions, or signs.
suppressible
adj. Capable of being suppressed.
vacuous
adj. Empty.
vaudeville
n. A variety show.
rue
v. To regret extremely.
duplex
adj. Having two parts.
miscount
v. To make a mistake in counting.
modification
n. A change.
recapitulate
v. To repeat again the principal points of.
asperity
n. Harshness or roughness of temper.
bosom
n. The breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman.
adduce
v. To bring forward or name for consideration.
accursed
adj. Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune.
baize
n. A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.
tenor
n. A settled course or manner of progress.
lovable
adj. Amiable.
proverb
n. A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience.
persevere
v. To continue striving in spite of discouragements.
immersion
n. The act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid.
omniscience
n. Unlimited or infinite knowledge.
biography
n. A written account of one’s life, actions, and character.
whet
v. To make more keen or eager.
deprecate
v. To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
ulterior
adj. Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of.
qualify
v. To endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill, or possessions.
despondent
adj. Disheartened.
passible
adj. Capable of feeling of suffering.
intensive
adj. Adding emphasis or force.
valid
adj. Founded on truth.
misogamy
n. Hatred of marriage.
inexpressible
adj. Unutterable.
muddle
v. To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink.
brevity
n. Shortness of duration.
inapt
adj. Awkward or slow.
predatory
adj. Prone to pillaging.
bilateral
adj. Two-sided.
incompetence
n. General lack of capacity or fitness.
beck
v. To give a signal to, by nod or gesture.
sarcophagus
n. A stone coffin or a chest-like tomb.
anathema
n. Anything forbidden, as by social usage.
peccant
adj. Guilty.
secrecy
n. Concealment.
foreshore
n. That part of a shore uncovered at low tide.
theoretical
adj. Directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications.
lever
n. That which exerts, or through which one may exert great power.
ampere
n. The practical unit of electric-current strength.
lithe
adj. Supple.
extinct
adj. Being no longer in existence.
noisy
adj. Clamorous.
trenchant
adj. Cutting deeply and quickly.
dendrology
n. The natural history of trees.
colloquy
n. Conversation.
misogyny
n. Hatred of women.
anesthetic
adj. Pertaining to or producing loss of sensation.
conformity
n. Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
adieu
inter. Good-by; farewell.
predicate
v. To state as belonging to something.
contrivance
n. The act planning, devising, inventing, or adapting something to or for a special purpose.
stature
n. The natural height of an animal body.
autonomous
adj. Self-governing.
bric-a-brac
n. Objects of curiosity or for decoration.
frolicsome
adj. Prankish.
indispensable
adj. Necessary or requisite for the purpose.
excretion
n. The getting rid of waste matter.
fabricate
v. To invent fancifully or falsely.
salient
adj. Standing out prominently.
collision
n. Violent contact.
electrotype
n. A metallic copy of any surface, as a coin.
technicality
n. Something peculiar to a particular art, trade, or the like.
galore
adj. Abundant.
drowsy
adj. Heavy with sleepiness.
vigilance
n. Alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger.
acquittal
n. A discharge from accusation by judicial action.
anode
n. The point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like.
connubial
adj. Pertaining to marriage or matrimony.
refinery
n. A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
antiquate
v. To make old or out of date.
coalescence
n. The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
happy-go-lucky
adj. Improvident.
transcontinental
adj. Extending or passing across a continent.
potency
n. Power.
estimable
adj. Worthy of respect.
animosity
n. Hatred.
tarnish
v. To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way.
explode
v. To cause to burst in pieces by force from within.
Anglophobia
n. Hatred or dread of England or of what is English.
mileage
n. A distance in miles.
flagrant
adj. Openly scandalous.
reck
v. To have a care or thought for.
retort
n. A retaliatory speech.
nimble
adj. Light and quick in motion or action.
emaciate
v. To waste away in flesh.
giddy
adj. Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head.
submersible
adj. Capable of being put underwater.
absolve
v. To free from sin or its penalties.
accede
v. To agree.
ligature
n. Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying.
grotto
n. A small cavern.
treatise
n. An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
maintenance
n. That which supports or sustains.
muster
n. An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off.
furbish
v. To restore brightness or beauty to.
duteous
adj. Showing submission to natural superiors.
demagnetize
v. To deprive (a magnet) of magnetism.
leaven
v. To make light by fermentation, as dough.
possess
v. To own.
acquaint
v. To make familiar or conversant.
allusion
n. An indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it.
captivate
v. To fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty.
diplomatist
n. One remarkable for tact and shrewd management.
inchoate
adj. Incipient.
sergeant-major
n. The highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment.
vacillate
v. To waver.
diffusion
n. Dispersion.
aboriginal
adj. Primitive; unsophisticated.
contusion
n. A bruise.
parsimonious
adj. Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
derisible
adj. Open to ridicule.
gentile
adj. Belonging to a people not Jewish.
decent
adj. Characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners, or dress.
maneuver
v. To make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy.
inconsiderable
adj. Small in quantity or importance.
commission
v. To empower.
intracellular
adj. Occurring or situated within a cell.
differential
adj. Distinctive.
quandary
n. A puzzling predicament.
tricolor
adj. Of three colors.
anthropology
n. The science of man in general.
dissection
n. The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal.
glacial
adj. Icy, or icily cold.
putrescent
adj. Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
oral
adj. Uttered through the mouth.
evade
v. To avoid by artifice.
accusation
n. A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error.
epicycle
n. A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle.
complaisant
adj. Agreeable.
misnomer
n. A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
inexpedient
adj. Unadvisable.
extradite
v. To surrender the custody of.
defalcate
v. To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
illegible
adj. Undecipherable.
