Found Words Flashcards
Salubrious
Healthy, favorable to or promoting health or well-being
Fresh air and an exercise routine have always been considered salubrious activities
Paean
A work that praises or honors its subjects
Incipient
Beginning to come into being or becoming apparent
Inchoate
Being only partly in existence or operation; imperfectly formed
Fecund
Fruitful in offspring or vegetation; Intellectually productive to a degree
Irrefragable
Impossible to refute; impossible to break or alter
The prosecutor painstakingly built an irrefragable case.
Dogma
Something held as an established opinion. A point of view or tenet put forth as authoritative without adequate grounds
Polity
Political organization
Draconian
Relating to the cruel or severe laws formed by Draco, a 7th century Athenian law giver
Mercenary
One that serves primarily for wages
Facetious
- Joking or jesting often inappropriately
2. Meant to be humorous or funny, not serious
Panegyric
- Eulogistic oration or writing
2. Formal or elaborate praise
Elocution
- A style of speaking especially in public
2. The art of speaking effectively in public
Paltry
Inferior, trivial, despicable
Abhorrent
Causing or deserving strong dislike or hatred