Fall 2023 Flashcards
to put someone in a situation in which they have to deal with something difficult or unpleasant:
Thanks to you, I am ____ with…. unnecessary feelings.
Many people do not want traditional mortgages that ____ borrowers with debt for a fixed period.
Saddle
(formal) to explain something or make something clear:
I don’t understand. You’ll have to ____.
The reasons for the change in weather conditions have been ____ by several scientists.
Elucidate
unable to be separated, released, or escaped from:
The _____ links between health (or illness) and people’s human/natural environments create a basis for an ecological approach to health.
Inextricable
a person who knows a lot about many different subjects
Readers will finish the book well satisfied, and unless they are real historical ____, much better informed than they were before they started.
Fuller sees himself as a _____, talking about a huge range of intellectual and political trends of the twentieth century.
Polymath
(Informal) secret or dishonest activities, usually of a complicated type:
silly behavior that is usually not very serious or harmful:
Bakusquad’s ________
More business ______ were exposed in the newspapers today.
Shenanigans
used to describe something as another, more exciting, interesting, or unusual thing, as a way of emphasizing its character:
My garden had become a _____ jungle by the time I came back from holiday.
Veritable
a short journey either to take a message or to take or collect something:
Reki is late bc he was given a late night ____.
I’ll meet you at six, I’ve got some ____ to do/run first.
Errand
thought not to be completely true or not able to be trusted:
These claims are ____ and not scientifically proven.
I’m ____ about Russia’s happy future.
Dubious
having or seeming to have unlimited knowledge:
_____ reader’s viewpoint
They give the impression that the magazine is _______.
Omniscient
(derogatory, informal) an insulting word for a weak man, used especially by people on the extreme right of politics to refer to men with politically liberal views:
“____” became the alt-right’s favorite insult.
Cuck
(old-fashioned) a young person who is too confident and shows no respect towards other, especially older, people:
Ms. Oldbag about Koda: you little _________________!
I’m not going to have some young __________ tell me what to do!
Whippersnapper
(approving) careful to look at or consider every part of something to make certain it is correct or safe:
“the ______ testing of consumer products”
The aim is to provide insight into the more ________ formalization that will be provided in the following sections.
Rigorous
an illegal copy of a document, painting, etc. or the crime of making such illegal copies:
Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of _____ was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar (1984).
The committee considered the majority of the documents authentic and noted the few cases in which it suspected _____.
Forgery
great enthusiasm or eagerness:
The government’s reforming ____ was kept up for a bit longer.
Furthermore, one can pursue the same goal with different degrees of ____ at different times in one’s life.
Zeal
(the act of having) an opinion or belief that is the opposite of or against what is the official or popular opinion, or an action that shows that you have no respect for the official opinion:
He was burned at the stake for _______ in the 15th century.
She committed the ____ of playing a Lady Gaga song on a classical music station.
Heresy
