deck4600 Flashcards
unyoke
v. To separate.
iniquity
n. Gross wrong or injustice.
avow
v. To declare openly.
conversant
adj. Thoroughly informed.
paroxysm
n. A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
resurrection
n. A return from death to life
evanesce
v. To vanish gradually.
archaic
adj. Antiquated
furtive
adj. Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief.
shriek
n. A sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror.
accompany
v. To go with, or be associated with, as a companion.
prolific
adj. Producing offspring or fruit.
cognate
adj. Akin.
parliament
n. A legislative body.
osculate
v. To kiss.
conjugation
n. The state or condition of being joined together.
separatist
n. A seceder.
alienable
adj. Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands.
tranquility
n. Calmness.
amity
n. Friendship.
birthright
n. A privilege or possession into which one is born.
heteromorphic
adj. Deviating from the normal form or standard type.
promenade
v. To walk for amusement or exercise.
invective
n. An utterance intended to cast censure, or reproach.
close-hauled
adj. Having the sails set for sailing as close to the wind as possible.
bewilder
v. To confuse the perceptions or judgment of.
testament
n. A will.
appellation
n. The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called.
migratory
adj. Wandering.
blaspheme
v. To indulge in profane oaths.
postdate
v. To make the date of any writing later than the real date.
glorious
adj. Of excellence and splendor.
fugacious
adj. Fleeting.
arcade
n. A vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops, etc., opening from it.
incessant
adj. Unceasing.
vapid
adj. Having lost sparkling quality and flavor.
capacious
adj. Roomy.
absorb
v. To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water.
denunciation
n. The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment.
monastery
n. A dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion.
participant
n. One having a share or part.
financier
n. One skilled in or occupied with financial affairs or operations.
proportionate
adj. Being in proportion.
litigate
v. To cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law.
patrimony
n. An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one’s father.
pertinent
adj. Relevant.
metempsychosis
n. Transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast.
purl
v. To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
relegate
v. To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination.
disparity
n. Inequality.
recede
v. To move back or away.
cabinet
n. The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
sacrilegious
adj. Impious.
procedure
n. A manner or method of acting.
abhorrence
n. The act of detesting extremely.
pledgeor
n. One who gives a pledge.
rancor
n. Malice.
peccable
adj. Capable of sinning.
heptagon
n. A figure having seven sides and seven angles.
renovate
v. To restore after deterioration, as a building.
typographical
adj. Pertaining to typography or printing.
hydromechanics
n. The mechanics of fluids.
earthenware
n. Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun.
conjugate
adj. Joined together in pairs.
superficial
adj. Knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious.
duplicity
n. Double-dealing.
entomology
n. The branch of zoology that treats of insects.
forecast
v. To predict.
up-keep
n. Maintenance.
inconsistent
adj. Contradictory.
enthrall
v. To bring or hold under any overmastering influence.
enhance
v. To intensify.
inconvenient
adj. Interfering with comfort or progress.
decagon
n. A figure with ten sides and ten angles.
polygamy
n. the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once.
indignity
n. Unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment.
metronome
n. An instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music.
mausoleum
n. A tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions.
discipline
v. To train to obedience.
mantle
n. A cloak.
bide
v. To await.
troublesome
adj. Burdensome.
sepulcher
n. A burial-place.
topography
n. The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
alternative
n. Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
ultimatum
n. A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions.
archipelago
n. Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves.
efficacy
n. The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it.
caret
n. A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
anterior
adj. Prior.
caste
n. The division of society on artificial grounds.
invalid
adj. Having no force, weight, or cogency.
deject
v. To dishearten.
prologue
n. A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance.
obdurate
adj. Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity.
infrequence
n. Rareness.
Jingo
n. One of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy.
expedient
adj. Contributing to personal advantage.
ascribe
v. To assign as a quality or attribute.
magisterial
adj. Having an air of authority.
lassie
n. A little lass.
decipher
v. To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible.
subsistence
n. Sustenance.
queue
n. A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance.
sprightly
adj. Vivacious.
dispel
v. To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions.
technic
adj. Technical.
broach
v. To mention, for the first time.
effectual
adj. Efficient.
vendible
adj. Marketable.
constituency
n. The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.
proffer
v. To offer to another for acceptance.
salvage
n. Any act of saving property.
cornice
n. An ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling.
pedigree
n. One’s line of ancestors.
tolerant
adj. Indulgent.
momentary
adj. Lasting but a short time.
emancipate
v. To release from bondage.
rapacious
adj. Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
treasonable
adj. Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance.
luscious
adj. Rich, sweet, and delicious.
salutatory
n. The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
discomfit
v. To put to confusion.
modernize
v. To make characteristic of the present or of recent times.
trait
n. A distinguishing feature or quality.
unfavorable
adj. Adverse.
preordain
v. To foreordain.
intercession
n. Entreaty in behalf of others.
aerostat
n. A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
aloof
adv. Not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others.
dehydrate
v. To deprive of water.
coronet
n. Inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign.
understate
v. To fail to put strongly enough, as a case.
rapt
adj. Enraptured.
gynecocracy
n. Female supremacy.
eloquent
adj. Having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech.
crockery
n. Earthenware made from baked clay.
acerbity
n. Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
palate
n. The roof of the mouth.
innuendo
n. Insinuation.
dissolute
adj. Lewd.
likely
adj. Plausible.
medicine
n. A substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties.
tyro
n. One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.
momentous
adj. Very significant.
waistcoat
n. A vest.
levity
n. Frivolity.
variance
n. Change.
imaginary
adj. Fancied.
foreordination
n. Predestination.
pneumatic
adj. Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
blazon
v. To make widely or generally known.
littoral
adj. Of, pertaining to, or living on a shore.
fernery
n. A place in which ferns are grown.
ingratitude
n. Insensibility to kindness.
apostasy
n. A total departure from one’s faith or religion.
awaken
v. To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
regenerate
v. To reproduce.
dilatory
adj. Tending to cause delay.
herbivorous
adj. Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals.
refragable
adj. Capable of being refuted.
habitant
n. Dweller.
pledgee
n. The person to whom anything is pledged.
obsolescent
adj. Passing out of use, as a word.
extravagance
n. Undue expenditure of money.
demise
n. Death.
occupant
n. A tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner.
immiscible
adj. Separating, as oil and water.
frankincense
n. A gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes.
freethinker
n. One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion.
litigious
adj. Quarrelsome.
disown
v. To refuse to acknowledge as one’s own or as connected with oneself.
corps
n. A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together.
protector
n. A defender.
execrable
adj. Abominable.
barring
prep. Apart from.
anticlimax
n. A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.
bedlam
n. Madhouse.
lactation
n. The secretion of milk.
acreage
n. Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land.
domain
n. A sphere or field of action or interest.
copious
adj. Plenteous.
urgency
n. The pressure of necessity.
delirious
adj. Raving.
loot
v. To plunder.
insufficiency
n. Inadequacy.
philately
n. The study and collection of stamps.
deform
v. To disfigure.
dialectician
n. A logician.
arrange
v. To put in definite or proper order.
treble
adj. Multiplied by three.
suggestive
adj. Stimulating to thought or reflection.
consignee
n. A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.
distend
v. To stretch out or expand in every direction.
perennial
adj. Continuing though the year or through many years.
insulate
v. To place in a detached state or situation.
amply
adv. Sufficiently.
complacence
n. Satisfaction with one’s acts or surroundings.
unbearable
adj. Unendurable.
Antichrist
n. Any opponent or enemy of Christ, whether a person or a power.
