English Week 7 Vocabulary Flashcards
Encouragement or discord; rebellion; instigation
Fomentation
To treat with disdain or scorn; to mock
Flout
Journey or voyage made for a specific purpose
Expedition
Violent & noisy disruption or commotion, uproar
Tumult
Victim, as in someone or something being hunted
Prey
Gloomy silence, showing irritation or ill-humor
Sullen
Dividing line between two adjacent river systems
Watershed
To make a harsh, discorted, usually metallic sound
Jangle
The rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge or conduct
Philosophy
To arouse in emotion or provoke to action
Piqued
Unmannerly intrusion or presumption, insolence
Impertinence
Ornamental object which elaborate figures are sorted in a pattern
Arabesque
Twisted or coiled; complicated
Convoluted
Complex whole formed by combining
Synthesis
Jealousy or discontent
Envy