Des Flashcards
Tenacious
Determined; don’t give up easily; keep a firm hold of something
The victim was unable to run for her life because she could not let go of her attacker’s tenacious grip
Your grandfather can narrate stories about his childhood in excruciating detail because he has a tenacious memory.
Fervour
Intense and passionate feeling
Disapprobation
strong disapproval, typically on moral grounds.
she braved her mother’s disapprobation and slipped out to enjoy herself
Ardently
very enthusiastically or passionately
Impetuously
impulsive, rash - done quickly without much care
Tempestuously
Characterised by violent actions or inactions
Perpetuate
Make something continue
Idolastrous
Practicing idol worshipping
etymologically
Relates to origin of words
Serfdom
Condition of a tenant farmer bound to a hereditary plot of land and to the will of a landlord
Annexation
Forcible acquisition of one state by another
Perversity
desire to behave in unreasonable way; against standards
Awkwardness
Disgorge
Pour out
Cantankerousness
Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.
Bereft
Deprived of or lacking
Alone now and almost penniless, he was bereft of hope.
