General Practice Problems Incorrect 4 Flashcards
brazen
adjective: unrestrained by convention or propriety
Their large “donations” to the local police department gave the drug cartel the brazen confidence to do their business out in the open.
audacious
adjective: willing to be bold in social situations or to take risks
In my first week of teaching preschool, one especially audacious child tried to cut my hair without even asking.
confound
verb: to cause confusion
Though Harry loved numbers, calculus confounded him.
verb: mistake one thing for another
Americans often confound sweet potatoes with yams, and refer to both vegetables by the same name.
undergird
To gird round the bottom; gird beneath.
transitive verb – To bind below; to gird round the bottom.
verb – To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.
verb – To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for.
verb – To lend moral support to.
verb – To secure below or underneath.
verb – make secure underneath
marginalize
To furnish with marginal notes.
To make marginal notes.
verb – To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people,) to the margins or to a lower limit
verb – relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people
peripheral
noun – One of the outer bony plates of the carapace of a turtle: commonly termed marginal.
Of, belonging to, or situated on the periphery, circumference, or surface generally; characteristic of or constituting the periphery: as, peripheral parts; peripheral expansion.
adjective – Of or pertaining to a periphery; constituting a periphery; peripheric.
adjective – External; away from the center.
adjective – on the periphery or boundary
adjective – beside the point
adjective – unimportant
obsolete
adjective: not used anymore
Vinyl records are generally obsolete as a way to play music, but some collectors value them highly for their distinctive sound.
intrigue
To entangle; involve; cause to be involved or entangled.
To plot for: scheme for.
To practise underhand plotting or scheming; exert secret influence for the accomplishment of a purpose; seek to promote one’s aims in devious and clandestine ways.
To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
noun – Intricacy; complication; maze.
noun – Secret or underhand plotting or scheming; the exertion of secret influence for the accomplishment of a purpose.
noun – A clandestine plot; a scheme for entangling others, or for gaining an end by the exertion of secret influence: as, to expose an intrigue.
hubris
noun: overbearing pride or presumption
Bill Clinton was criticized for his hubris, since he believed he could get away with anything once in the White House.
winsome
adjective: charming in a childlike or naive way
She was winsome by nature, and many people were drawn to this free and playful spirit.
causing joy or pleasure; gladsome; pleasant.” Another is “attractive or appealing in appearance or character.” In these senses, it is a close synonym for “attractive.”
attractive
Having the power or faculty of drawing in, to, or toward by mechanical agency or action.
Having the quality of attracting by inherent force; causing to gravitate to or toward: as, the attractive force of bodies.
Having the power of charming or alluring by agreeable qualities; inviting; engaging; enticing.
noun – That which draws or incites; allurement; charm.
adjective – Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing.
adjective – Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing.
noun – That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.
lickspittle
noun – The practice of giving empty flattery for personal gain.
disaffected
adjective: discontented as toward authority
After watching his superior take rations from the soldiers, he quickly became disaffected and rebelled.
astronomical
Pertaining or related to astronomy; connected with or relating to astronomic observation or research.
adjective – Of or pertaining to astronomy; in accordance with the methods or principles of astronomy.
adjective – See under Clock.
adjective – See under Day.
adjective – See under Sexagesimal.
adjective –
adjective – Of or relating to astronomy.
prohibitive
Same as prohibitory.
adjective – That prohibits; prohibitory.
adjective – Tending to prohibit, preclude, or disallow.
adjective – Costly to the extreme; beyond budget.
noun – negative imperative
adjective – tending to discourage (especially of prices)
magnificent
Great in deeds or action; especially, very liberal; munificent; generous; open-handed.
Making a great show; possessing or pretending to greatness; stately; ostentatious.
Grand in appearance or character; exhibiting greatness; splendid; brilliant; of extraordinary excellence: as, a magnificent building or view; a magnificent victory or poem; magnificent conceptions.
Exhibiting greatness of size or extent: as, the preparations were upon a magnificent scale; a city of magnificent distances.
Synonyms Superb, Splendid, etc. (see grand); imposing, august, gorgeous.
adjective – Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.
adjective – Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid; pompous.
provisional
adjective: under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
Until the corporate office hands down a definitive decision on use of the extra offices, we will share their use in a provisional arrangement.
