ESL Essential Words14 Flashcards
Pensive
Thoughtful. Thinking seriously
Perjury
Lying under oath
Peruse
To read carefully
Phlegmatic
Slow to respond. Not easily excited
Plagiarize
Using another’s words as your own
Plausible
Seemingly true. apparently believable
Posthumous
Arising or occurring after one’s death
Precocious
Showing advanced development at an early age
Potpourri
Mixture. Medley
Procrastinate
Delay
Prognosticate
Predict
Prolific
Producing much. Fertile
Quandary
Dilemma. Condition of doubt
Rabid
Fanatical. Furious. Infected with rabies
Rendezvous
Meeting place.meeting by arrangement
Rescind
To cancel. To repeal
Sanguine
Confident. Hopeful. Optimistic
Simile
Figure of speech using as or like in which two different things are compared
Skeptic
One who doubts consistently. One who is hard to convince
Slander
False oral statement designed to damage a person’s reputation
Sporadic
Occurring at irregular times
Superficial
Not deep. On the surface only
Taciturn
Silent. Reserved. Uncommunicative
Terse
Brief. To the point
Thwart
To hinder. Block
Trite
Overused. Commonplace
Utopia
Paradise. A place where everything is perfect
Vacillate
To waver back and forth
Verbose
Wordy. Using more words than is necessary
Vindicate
Clear. Acquit. Exonerate
Volatile
Explosive. Changeable
