Essential Flashcards
Assuage
To make something less painful or severe
Anomaly
Something unusual and unexpected
Enigma
Someone or something that is difficult to understand or explain
Equivocal
Having to possible meanings
Erudite
Having knowledge that is learned by studying
Fervid
Having or showing feelings that are strong or too strong
Lucid
Very clear, and easy to understand
Opaque
Not letting light through,
Difficult to understand or explain
Placate
To soothe or mollify esp. by concessions.
Precipitate
To cause something to happen quickly or suddenly
To become separated from a liquid by a chemical process
Prodigal
Carelessly and foolishly spending money, time, etc.
Zeal
A strong feeling or interest and enthusiasm that make someone very eager or determined to do something
Abstain
To choose not to do or have something
To choose not to vote
Adulterate
To make something impure or weaker by adding something of poor quality
Apathy
The feeling of not having much emotion or interest
An apathetic state
Audacious
Very confident and daring
Very bold and surprising or shocking
Capricious
Changing often and quickly
Not logical or reasonable
Corroborate
To support or help prove by providing information or evidence
Desiccate
To dry up
To preserve by drying
To drain of emotional or intellectual vitality
Engender
To be the source or cause of something
Ephemeral
Lasting a very short time
Gullible
Easily fooled or cheated
Homogenous
Made up of the same kind of people or things
Laconic
Using few words in speech or writing
Laudable
Deserving praise
Loquacious
Liking to talk and talking smoothly and easily
Migitate
To make something les severe, harmful or painful
Pedant
A person who annoys other people by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor detail
Pragmatic
Dealing with the problems that exist in a specific situation in. Reasonable and logical way instead of depending on ideas and theories.
Propriety
Behavior that is accepted as socially or morally correct and proper
Vacillate
To repeatedly change your opinions and desires
Volatile
Likely to change in an extreme way
Having or showing extreme or sudden changes in emotion
Likely to become dangerous or out of control
