english Flashcards
eulogy
praise speech for someone’s life at a funeral
pulchritudinous
physically beautiful and attractive
meretricious
attractive on the surface but having in reality no value or substance
reticent
keeping to yourself; not likely to dram attention to yourself; uncommunicative
perfidious
disloyal, unfaithful
pernicious
extremely destructive or harmful
sobriquet
nickname
taciturn
silent, not talkative
ineffable
unspeakable, incapable of being expressed through words
prevaricate
to avoid giving a direct answer or deviate from the truth
assiduous
hard-working, diligent
fervent
having intense feeling or passion for something
agriculture
the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products.