EN words 📘 Flashcards
Vary
A variation.
Blasé
Boring, tedious.
Paradox
A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true.
Pristine
Not spoiled, corrupted, or polluted. Also known as clean.
Malleable
Capable of being shaped or extended. A helical spring is malleable since it can be extended.
Prodigy
Something amazing or talented.
Suburb
An outlying part of a city or town.
Pupil
A student.
Justification
To prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable.
To ruminate something
Keep getting over something. Keep thinking about it repeatedly.
Amalgamation
The action or process of uniting or merging two or more things.
Memorandum
A written reminder.
Cargo
The goods or merchandise conveyed in a ship, airplane, or vehicle.
Fang
A long, sharp tooth.
Sinister
Dark, eerie.
Effort
Hard work.
Certain
Fixed, settled.
Confidence
A feeling or consciousness of one’s powers or of reliance on one’s circumstances.
Vocabulary
A feeling or consciousness of one’s powers or of reliance on one’s circumstances.
Unintentional
Not on purpose.
Tedious
Boring, synonym for blasé.
Recess
A break.
Leisure
Period of time in which you are free.
Mere
Nothing more then.
Entrepreneur
One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise.
Infinity
Something that never ends.
Reconcile
To reunite with something or someone.
To determine something
Something that’s decided.
Mundain
As usual.
Discrepancy
Tegenstrijdigheid
Apprentice
Student, someone that helps.
Deliberate
Something on purpose.
Jettison
To get rid of something.
Flawed
Something that’s wrong.
To consolidate something
To make something stronger.
Conviction
a strong persuasion or belief, or believing something.
Contradiction
Something on the opposite side.
Quasi
Almost, just like that.
Forager
A collector.
Decimation
To reduce drastically especially in number.
Courtship
When a male is trying to find a female.
Realm
Kingdom, domain.
To comprehend something
To realize something.
Hegemony
Heerschappij
Sophisticated
Something hard.
Courtship
Verleiding
Eerie
Spooky, haunting.
Allegedly
Accused, not proven yet.
Ludicrous
Crazy, weird.
Syllabus
A summary.
Obsolete
No longer in use.
Weening
When baby’s still drink milk from their mom.
Leap
A jump forward.
Repository
A magazine.
To debrief
Giving an update on a subject, action or a situation.
Savage
Something or someone wild.
To expire
“He expired yesterday” means that he died yesterday.
To beg a question
Een vraag uit een gebeurtenis of conclusie halen.
Proverb
A saying.
Pococurante
Nonchalant, relaxed.
Affluent
Having an abundance of goods or riches.
Immaculate
Having or containing no flaw or error.
Feat
An act or deed.
Wage
A payment usually of money for labor or services.
Lustrous
Shiny.
Culprit
A guilty person.
Phrenology
The study of the conformation of the skull based on the belief that it is indicative of mental faculties and character.
Dialated
Widened.
Synapse
The point at which a nervous impulse passes from one neuron to another.
Irretrievable
Impossible to regain or recover.
Irretrievable
Impossible to regain or recover.
Seren
Completely relaxed.
Decoy
Something you lure someone.
Flux
Vloed, iets wat blijft stromen.
Hearsay
A rumor, no proof of it.
Subsequent
Opvolgend. Following in time, order, or place.
Frenzy
A temporary madness.
Narato
Naar verhouding.
Asset
The entire property of a person, association, corporation, or estate applicable or subject to the payment of debts.
Olfactory
The part in your brain where smell is being processed.
Primordial
First created or developed.
Veracity
The truth.
Emissary
A secret agent.
Cohesive
Causing parts or members to unify or stick together.
Frission
A brief moment of emotional excitement.
Reprove
Correct usually gently or with kindly intent.
Omnipotent
Having absolute power over all.
Brief
A short period of time.
Slant
Schijn gepositioneerd.
Manufacturing
Vervaardigen, produceren.
Manufacturing
Vervaardigen, produceren.
Ambiance
The typical atmosphere, feeling, or mood of a place.
The new restaurant became popular for its ambiance as well as for its food
and drink.
Abide
To patiently wait or tolerate. To abide is to endure; to bear or accept a person
or condition; to withstand or persevere. In the old days, it meant to live
or reside in a place; one would “abide” in an “abode.” While you may abide
someone or something, you really don’t want that person or thing by your
side.
Abrogate
To formally (and with authority) repeal or cancel something, such as an agreement or a contract. To take official action
Absolve
To publicly or formally pronounce someone guiltless and blameless. To
release someone from any responsibility for an alleged misdeed or, for a
priest, to forgive them of sins. When a crime is solved, some are absolved,
while the guilty parties are arrested or jailed.
Pejorative
Critical or disapproving; disparaging. A word or phrase that defames.
Archiac
Oeroud.
Succinct
Samengevat
Eloquent
Iemand die zich heel goed kan uitdrukken met woorden