General Flashcards
Scowl
Frown
Riled up
Angry
Integrity
Integrity is a personal quality of fairness that will all aspire to.
Quality of being honest.
Integrity refers to the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles. It involves maintaining consistency in actions, values, methods, measures, and principles.
Aspire - aim or shoot for.
Frigid
Extremely cold
Coterminous bordering upon, having the common boundary.
Ward off
Prevent something / something from harming / affecting one.
Ward off
Keep it from happening
Hover
Helicopter hovered overhead
Worrier is not warrior
Bleak
Cold and miserable
Fandom
The fans of a sport or famous person
Hover
Levitate
Visceral
Visceral feeling are intuitive.
The fear of mouse you have may not be rational but it is visceral.
When something is visceral you feel it in your guts.
Vicarious
Experience through secondhand
Delusional
Believe something that’s is possibly not true
Grapple
When you wrestle with something — literally or figuratively — you grapple with it, or try to overcome it.
Bedevil
Cause great and continual trouble
Inclement
Unpleasantly cold or wet.
Turnover
Rate of replacement.
Income
Treacherous
Not trusted / dangerous.
Something that’s causes disgust or hatred
Abomination
Repulse
Repel or drive it back
Install
Parents work hard to develop, or instill, positive beliefs and values in their children. Interestingly, there’s no corresponding word for when parents pass down their bad habits.
Laboring away
Work very hard
Whirlwind
used in similes and metaphors to describe a very energetic or tumultuous person or process.
it’s just a term of endearment — meant to show affection, not make you miserably embarrassed.
Rhetoric
Rhetoric is speaking or writing that’s intended to persuade.
Demote
Give someone a lower rank often as a punishment
Guard or strengthen
Flanked
Floundering
Struggle to move / stagger
Gravitate
Grandiosity
Vertigo
Feeling that you are spinning / about to fall.
Repertoire
Full supply of what you can do
Robust
Strong enough to overcome challenges and adversity
Adversity
Difficulties
Fuse
Mix two things together
Atrocious
Shockley brutal and cruel
Genial
Friendly and outgoing. Cordial
Obnoxious
in an extremely unpleasant way, especially in a way that offends people
Abscond
To escape usually taking something / somebody along with you
Abscond cal also mean.
Leave hurriedly and secretly
Make off
Ran away
Cherry on top
something special is added to something else that is also very nice, to make it even better.
Reckon
Guess , imagine , suppose, think
Dead reckoning
Determining the position by estimating the speed and distance travelled.
Timid
Lack of courage, confidence and easily frightened.
Pumped out
Produce something quickly and frequently.
Endeavor
When you endeavor something you try hard to achieve it.
Contemptible
Worthy of contempt.
Contempt is extreme lack of respect.
Snob
Condescending, and you like to think you are better than everyone else.
Heinous
Very wicked and evil
Devote
Eschew
Deliberately avoid sth
Abdication
Formal act of giving up power
Steep
Construe
Make sense of something
Excursion
Trip involving leisure activity
Gravitas
Seriousness and dignity
Mobilize
Prepare to spring into action
Phase out
Withdraw something for use in gradual stages.
Phase out.
Pander
Appease / gratify often in a negative self serving way.
Picket
A group of people standing outside a venue protesting
Rebuke
Express sharp disapproval or criticism of someone because of their behavior / actions.
Chastise
Scold, rebuke, reprimand.
Epiphany
Black man are culturally programmed to cheat
Cherish
To care about deeply
Honor your parents
Show respect towards
Love honor and cherish
Commiserate
Sympathize
Collate
Arrange pages/ books in a proper order.
Thump
Hit heavily
Lengthy & complicated procedure
Rigmarole
I’m all over it
Pervert
A person whose sexual behavior is considered and abnormal
Outburst
Adjourn
Plucking / tweezing
Stakeout
Chalk up
Attribute something to something else
Leech
Habitual exploitation
Smother
Suffocate
Full fledged
Fully developed
Hone
Sharpen
Exacerbate
Make worse
Abate
Become less in amount / intensity
Swirl
Spiral , move around in circles.
Deplane
De ice
You can’t have your cake and eat it too
Trifling / not significant
Predicament
like a moth to the flame
Irrististance to attraction of sth
Tenuous
Very weak/ slight or insubstantial
Dissing
Speaking disrespectful to / criticize
Pouting
Flip out
suddenly lose control or become very angry
Limbo
Uncertain
Banish
Send away
Reeling from sth
feeling extremely surprised or upset because of it
Class act
Person or a thing displaying impressive and and excellence
Fret
Blabbermouth
Someone who gossips indiscreetly
Strenuously
Work really hard at it
Learn repartee
Mean and unfair
Lowdown
Put someone through the wringer
They suffered a very difficult situation or unpleasant experience.
Alluded
Suggested
Aesthetically pleasing
Cease and desist
Salubrious
Favorable to health of mind and body
Recuperate
Restored to good health or strength.
I figured you needed a salubrious environment in which to recuperate.
Fortify
Make stronger and stronger,
Add beverages/alcohol
Add nutrients to.
Bomb diggity
Something excellent & really cool
Knee jerk reaction.
React in a very predictable way without thinking
Invaluable
Valuable beyond estimations
Signage
You have to know how this friendship was first founded.
She had the audacity
Tad
To small extent
I’m tad hurt you think I went to a therapist
Spring
Move suddenly & rapidly upwards & forward.
Jinx
Bringer of bad luck
Orthodox / unorthodox- predicting tradition
Egregious
Outstandingly bad/ shocking
Chicken/ hen - clucks
The chicken clucks and scratched in the dirt.
Hit close the home
To be relatable in a negative way
Delve
Dig into , loosen or investigate
Preliminary
Something that come before something else.
Curated
Carefully chosen and thoughtful organized
Credible
Able to believe , convincing, trustworthy
Notorious
Well known
Fostering
Encouraging the development of/ growth is something.
Trail of breadcrumbs
Something - hint / clue that serves to lead or guide
Rave
- can mean to talk in a noisy/ excited manner . I.e jabber, rant, mouth off.
- to praise enthusiastically
Shady
Fool me once
You fool me twice I have myself to blame.
Back are against he wall
In a bad position, in which one is forced to do something in order to avoid failure.
Aghast
Filled with horror or shock
Colloquial
Casual and conversational
Diaphragm
A device used for birth control.
I guess I better go and dust off my diaphragm. I’m joking I a drawer full of condoms.
Convene
Call together.
Summon.
Unfurl
Roll it out. Unwind the way you do the coiled laptop charger.
Unfurling
Unfolding
Coasters
A piece of good or plastic that you put a glass or cup on to protect the surface from heat/ cold. Tea coasters.
Bureaucracy
Verbatim
Exact words
Regurgitated
Bring back up again to the mouth/ vomit.
Repeating back the words without understanding
Spin
Turn around
Toot my own horn
Talk boastfully about oneself
Marinade / sauce, oil, vinegar etc.
Soak in marinade. Call that marinate.
Tacky
Bluff
Deceive
Leg up on
Take advantage over others
Miniscule
Extremely small or tiny
Separatist
A person who supports separation of two groups / organization.
Rebuff
Reject
Baffled
Be a mystery
Bewildered
Something that confused you
Fesses up
Admit that
Dolly dally
Waste time through aimless wandering
Lewd
Sexually inappropriate.
Like saying I’m wet in public that will be considered lewd.
Tramp
Walk or stomp heavily
File
A file and filing a knife.
Be out in the cold
Be ignored by others , not invited
Storm out right now
Howl
To make a loud, sad and crying sound.
Yammering
Talk on and on about nothing at all
Detractor
A detractor is someone who puts you down. When you’re proposing ideas at work, your detractor is the person who finds fault with everything you say.
Percolate
Spread gradually.
Cushy
Comfortable
Thinning out
Decrease in size /extent
Prolific readers
Gauche
Unsophisticated and socially awkward
Carve out
Carve out a half an hour here and there. Helps me relax.
Tension subsides
Coven
Brat
Badly behaved child
Jockey
struggle by every available means to gain or achieve something.
Sleight
You once thought it’s unattainable.
Nondescript
Lacking distinctiveness or interesting features or characteristics.
Ordinariness
the quality of being commonplace and ordinary
Flattery
Cough up
Give reluctantly
Very much sound up with nothing
Candid
Understatement
Minimization
Emphatically
Horrendous
Extremely unpleasant, very terrible
Meager
Lacking in quality or quantity.
Startling
Very surprising astonishing or remarkable
Poignant
Touches you deeply
haute couture
expensive, fashionable clothes produced by leading fashion houses.
Patronizing
Ruin the flow/ wreck a flow
Aftermath
Devours
Deranged
Guzzle
Eat and drink greedily
Obligatory
Parsimonious
Stingy frugal
Cross dresser
Ominous
Giving an impress that something bad is going to happen
Euphoria
Feeling of great happiness and well being
Euphoria
Dysphoria
Disposition
A person usual temperament or frame of mind.
Retard
Keep your eye on the ball
Continue thinking about or giving attention to something important.
Serendipity
the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
Serendipitous
Duel
It’s a fight and not a duel
Anthology
A collection of poems, stories
Earshot
Range or distance within which other person can ear.
Muttered
Say something in a low and barely audible voice.
Derogatory
Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude
Forfeit
Lose or deprived of
Denigrate
Say bad things try or false about a person.
Criticize unfairly
Relentlessness
Expediency
Expediency gets you what you want. While its tone can be neutral, expediency often suggests self-interest, possibly at the expense of doing what’s right.
Hung out to dry
Lenient
Merciful
Recess
Rebuttal
Refute
Gargle
Ramifications
Consequences
Spare 5 minutes for this.
Minion
Yank
Pull or move suddenly and sharply
Juvenile
A young person
Delinquent
Young offender, failing in what duty requires
Engulf
Something
Condiment
Flavor/
Hospice
Facility to take care of the I’ll / home care facility.
Trepidation
Feeling of fear.
Ominous
giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious.
Enthused
say something that expresses one’s eager enjoyment, interest, or approval.
“they both enthused over my new look”
Rumor mill
Process by which the rumors start and spread.
Guardianship and care provided deity or a god.
Providence
Winter of discontent
Spring of enchantment
Enchantment
feeling of great pleasure; delight.
Veto
Constitutional right to reject a decision or a proposal made by law making body.
Dignity is overrated for mistress don’t you think
Consolidate. Foothold
Join together on one whole.
Position usable as the foundation/ base for further advances - foothold.
Insult
Rude expression intending to offend or hurt someone.
Break break
I don’t get soften up by a nice dinner and dancing with a beautiful woman. You asked me what I want and I told you.
I worked to hard on it just to abandon it.
Just brainstorming ideas.
Treading the water
Be not advancing in any way.
Hypnotized
Capture the whole attention.
Mesmerize, fascinate.
Hypnosis
the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction
Souvenir
a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place, or event.
Trampled
Captivating
Capable of holding interest. Charming.
Bewildered
Confused , perplexed or puzzled .
Delighted
Feeling or showing great pleasure.
I’m delighted to be here.
Hilarious
Very funny / extremely amusing
Miserable
Exceptionally unhappy.
You know what people think when he takes his father’s company.
That his father is proud of him.
That he didn’t earn it, so that why I’m not looking to advertise the fact that I once had an affair.
You are not advertising it.
You disclosing it. Let something private to be known. You disclose them.
This isn’t coincidental encounter. Is it.
Debatable
Open to discussion or argument.
Balls are debatable.
Delicious
I’m not throwing gasoline on a pile if matches just to see what happens.
Not doing something you know the obvious repercussion for.
You both have a brain and a dick, and both of you are the meeting the brains won’t be leading that conversation.
Trainwreck
Utter disaster or mess.
Tuck
Fold, gather, insert.
The ability to tuck your ankles behind your head.
Cherish
Protect and care for.
Perpetrators will be found and brought to justice.
Pulling teeth
Used to indicate that something is difficult and frustration.
Pander
Appease.
Rile up
Make agitated or angry
What struck me.
In retrospect
After consideration, what I wish I’d do different.
The reality of goodness not the perception of it.
People care about looking good but doing evil.
Propensity
Inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way.
Affinity
Spontaneous or natural liking or sympathy for someone or something.
Conflate
Combine two into one
The hands were tucked behind his back
Blindsided
Getting attacked from unexpected position / catch unprepared
Hoist
Lift up with ropes and pulleys.
Spite
Desire to hurt, annoy or offend
Impeccable
Describe someone or something without any flaws.
Wreak
Cause something to happen especially terrible consequences.
Withering
Weaken or
Annihilate,
Wreak or capable of wreaking complete destruction.
Acerbic
Harshly bitter.
It can leave a bitter taste in your mouth.
