ETS Words 2 Flashcards
Arrogated
Take claim without justification
Averred
Assert to a case
Burnished
Polish something by rubbing
Cretaceous
Era of time between Jurassic and Tertiary
Cabal
Secret political clique
Cossested
Pampered
Conflagration
Fire that destroys (NOT conflation)
Contumacious
Disobedient to authority
Concilliatory
Intend to please
Despondent
Very sad
Dilapidation
Destructive to building
Daedalean
Intricate, ingenious
Effigy
Model of person
Ebbing
Lessen, tide moving out
Irradiation
Edges that contrast
Ingenuous
Innocent
Insoluble
Not able to solve
Irresolute
Vacillate, change mind
Insolvent
Unable to pay debt
Insoluble
Unable to solve
Imprecation
Spoken curse
Jaunty
Lively, cheerful, self-confident
Gordian
Extremely difficult
Obloquy
Public criticism
Plucky
Showing determined courage
Picayune
Petty
Paltry
Meager
Pithy
Concise language, style
Proscribe
Condemn, forbid
Quintessential
Exemplar
Quaint
Picturesque
Sequestration
To take by force, isolate
Surmount
Overcome
Seditious
Inciting people to rebel
Squall
Gust of wind
Recompense
Compensation
Ribald
Referring to sexual matters in a rude way
Voluble
Speaking forever
Actuate
Put into action
Amoritizing
Reduce debt
Allay
To fill a need
Camarderie
Fellowship
Complacency
Self-restraint (NOT to be confused with compliant)
Desultory
Without a purpose
Descry
Catch sight of
Effluvium
Bad odor
Extemporaneous
Acting without thinking
Frangible
Easy to break (fragile)