English 2: Vocabulary 9 Flashcards
Extricate
v) to release from an entanglement or a difficulty; to set free
Menials
adj) of or suited to a servant; servile
n) a domestic servant; a servile person
Rampant
adj) growing without check or restraint; flourishing; widespread
Cajole
v) to persuade by pleasant words; to coax with flattery and insincere talk; to wheedle
Pestilence
n) a contagious and often fatal disease that spreads rapidly; an illness of epidemic proportions; a destructive or evil influence or factor
Anarchy
n) the absence of government or law; political disorder
Nadir
n) the point in the celestial sphere directly below the observer and opposite the zenith; the lowest possible point
Ethnology
n) the branch of anthropology that deals with recent societies or language groups, their distribution, characteristics, and cultures
Impaired
v) to make worse; to damage or weaken
Commodious
adj) roomy; spacious
Profuse
adj) giving freely; extravagant; plentiful
Virulent
adj) very poisonous or harmful; deadly; intensely bitter or spiteful
Strident
adj) having or making a harsh sound; shrill
Consign
v) to deliver; to deliver as goods to be sold; to send; to hand over; to assign to an undesirable position or place
Elocution
n) the art of public speaking; a style or manner of public speaking or reading
Subversion
n) the overthrowing or undermining of something established, such as a government
Cadaverous
adj) corpselike; pale and ghastly; thin and gaunt; haggard
Incorrigible
n) a person who will not be reformed
adj) incapable of being corrected or reformed; persistently bad
Promulgate
v) to make known to the public, declare; to make widespread
Maim
v) to wound or injure seriously; to disable in some way; to mutilate; to cripple
