English Vocab 2 Flashcards
Combative
Ready or eager to fight
Wrench
Twist or pull
Inscrutable
Impossible to understand, incomprehensible
Fatality
Occurrence of death by accident
Commiseration
Sympathy or sorrow
Ascentic
Practice of service of self discipline
Repugnance
Dislike or aversion
Mutability
Liability or tendency to change
Regimen
Way of living to improve health
Compulsion
Use of cause
Caprice
Sudden or unaccountable change of mood or behavior or an unreasonable notion
Enmity
Hate or feeling enemy’s hate towards one another
Smite
Strike with firm blow or severely punish
Dearth
Scarcity or lack of something
Ludicrous
Amusingly absurd
Pristine
Original condition; unspoiled
Gilded
Covered with gold; look bright
Temporal
Worldly, not religious
Albeit
Although
Imbibe
Drink or assimilate
Wary
Feeling or showing caution to possible dangers
Inoppurtune
Occurring at an inconvenient or inappropriate time
Retribution
Punishment inflicted on someone as result of the doing wrong or commuting a crime
Heterogeneous
Varied/ not similar
Exemplary
Representing best of its kind