EN words 📕 Flashcards
Persecute
To systematically subject a particular person, race, or group to cruel or unfair treatment. To make someone the victim of continual pestering or harassment.
Perpetuate
To make everlasting; to prolong memory of a thing or person.
Precedent
An example from the past that is either identical to a current situation or similar enough to it to use as a guide.
Rectify
To make something right; to correct an error. Technically, to purify a substance through distillation.
Roguish
Mischievous, often in an unscrupulous or dishonest way. Like a rogue; known to have low morals and bad habits. Playful.
Hypochondria
The hypochondria is a condition in which a person is excessively and unduly worried about having a serious illness.
Bona fide
Authentic, actual, or genuine. Not deceptive; indisputably legitimate.
Capitulate
To surrender according to specific conditions. To accede to demands. To give in to an argument, request, or pressure. To capitulate early or late still means to give in to demands or debate.
Zealous
Actively and unreservedly enthusiastic; fervent or fanatical.
Utterance
Something uttered or vocalized; a word or sound spoken aloud. A style of speaking.
Pervade
To spread throughout or be present throughout; infiltrate, penetrate, or circulate widely. A cat’s purr can pervade a quiet room with a sense of peace.
Cohort
A supporter, accomplice, or associate of a particular leader to whom special treatment is given. A member of a united group or group sharing a common characteristic like age, income, or gender, especially in statistical surveys.
Ultimatum
An expression that includes a demand along with the consequences, usually negative, of failing to meet the demand. A set of terms that cannot be compromised, without predetermined consequences occurring.
Brandish
To wave something, especially a weapon, in a threatening or menacing way. To wave something in defiance, as a warning of potential future harm, or out of pride, as a sign of status.
Candor
Honesty, directness, and openness. Freedom from prejudice or bias. Purity of heart; lack of malicious feelings. A lack of equivocation or doubletalk.
Speculative
Based on conjecture or incomplete information. Describes opinions or conclusions not based on facts. Risky, in terms of an investment that is potentially profitable.
Wreak
To inflict something violent, especially punishment or revenge. Not to be misused or confused with reek, which means to stink.
Niche
A recess in a wall especially for a statue.
Burning bridges
Leaving something behind.
Benevolent
Aardig, nice.
Abolish
Afschaffen
Immutable
Not capable of or susceptible to change.
Susceptible
Capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation.
Ambiguous
Dubbelzinnig in het Nederlands. Waar twee betekenissen eruit kunnen worden gehaald.
Incur
To bring down upon itself.
Pejorative
Critical or disapproving; disparaging. A word or phrase that defames.
Begets
Verwekken
Shroud
A length of clothing in which a dead person is wrapped in.
Idiosyncrasy
A peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality. eccentricity, erraticism, individualism, kink, mannerism, oddity, peculiarity, quiddity, quip, quirk, singularity, tic, trick, twist.
Apriory
Something you decided previously. You already made up your mind about it.
Meticulously
Marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details.
Fluke
Something that happened on accident.
Exonerate
Vrijpleiten
Intermediate
Overgangsfase.
Being or occurring at the middle place, stage, or degree or between extremes.
Pharilingular
When animals are in a certain stage of an embryo where they all look the same.
Dross
Something that’s trivial or inferior.
Encompasse
Included, accomplish or enclose.
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Include = A plan that encompasses an aim.
Accomplish = Encompass a task.
Enclose = To form a circle.
Discomfit
To get defeated in a battle or be embarrassed.
Repugnant
Having aversion against something; disgusting. “What a repugnant idea”! Y
Amok
In a violently raging, wild, or uncontrolled manner.
Pasture
Grasland.
Chouse
Trick or cheat.
Desolate
Joyless, deserted.
Disparity
A noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity.
Deviation
Afwijking
Incisive
Quick to analyze; sharp.
Incognito
Where there’s a hidden identity.
Infallible
Incapable of making a mistake.
Perdition
Eternal damnation.
Laboriously
In a way that it takes considerable time and effort.
Surge
Sudden increase.
Frenetic
Fast and energetic in an uncontrollable way.
Predicament
A dilemma.
To canonize
To glorify
Seculair
Where religion is divided from country. Religion does not plag a role.
Creperen
Doodgaan.
To relinquish
To leave behind.
Retaliated
To get revenge.
Dissorted
Verstoord
Institutionel racism
When the state makes laws against something, for instance being gay.
Enhance
To increase or improve in value, quality, desirability, or attractiveness
To penetrate
To pass into or through
Exempt
Obsolete — set apart
Levy
To collect
Excise
Any of various taxes on privileges often assessed in the form of a license or fee
Dystopia
The opposite of utopia. Fear and anger leads our lives.
Resilience
Veerkrachtig
Inquisitive
Inclined to ask questions, being curious.
To tweak
To make small adjustments
Daunting
Tending to overwhelm or intimidate
Hogwash
Nonsense
Coercion
Persuading someone to do something under a force or threat.
Sermon
Preek
Vicar
A pastor.
Deception
Misleiding.
Connotation
Een aantekening, notitie.
Pecking order
A hierarchy in a certain order.
Protrudes
To stick out
Surmise
To guess or assume.
Subjugate
To conquer
Pious
Religious
Proginy
Nageslacht
Tenaciously
With a firm hold of something
Turmoil
Een opschudding.
Subordinate
Ondergeschikt
Conspicuous
Attracting attention; opvallend
Surplus
Overshot. Dat wat overblijft.
