General Vocabulary Flashcards
Prurient
Inequitable
Tenet
Anecdotal
Based on reports made through observation or personal accounts rather than data.
Apparent
Obvious, clearly understood.
Chastise
Intensely scold or condemn.
Connoisseur
Expert who is able to pass critical judgement on fine arts or matters of taste.
Curtail
Make less, cut down, or put restraint to.
Disdain
Having contempt toward someone, or a feeling that they’re undeserving of respect.
Emit
Send, give forth, issue
Flourishing
Growing quickly and prosperously
Incite
Instigate, stir up, promote the growth of.
Merit
Excellence or worthiness
Proprietary
Related to the ownership or exclusive rights to something.
Refrain
Hold back, especially from something bad or unhealthy.
Sedentary
Seated most of the time. Physically inactive.
Superimpose
Set or lay something over something else
Teeming
Swarming, full of things, abundantly filled.
Abstraction
The act of considering ideas or concepts that are not attached to any one event.
Determinant
An element that influences the nature or result of something
Diffuse
Spread out over a large area
Envisage
Conceive as a future possibility
Expend
Pay out or use up
Heed
Take notice of
Implicit
Understood without being plainly expressed
Indelible
Incapable of being forgotten, removed, or erased
Intermittent
Existing in intervals, happening occasionally or irregularly
Manifest readily perceived by the eye or mind
Perplexing
Utterly baffling, bewildering
Receptivity
The state of being open and responsive
Sentimental
Overly emotional, or romantic in an extravagant way.
Susceptible
Capable of being influenced by something, impressionable, unresistant
Vehement
Exhibiting forceful, intense feeling or energy even to the point of being antagonistic or otherwise negative.
Allocate
Portion out for specific purposes
Deteriorate
Continuously worsen, go downhill
Disseminate
Scatter, spread about, broadcast
Emulate
Copy in an attempt to be better than or equal
Exemplify
Illustrate, demonstrate by example
Fabricate
Make up, construct (often something false)
Mollify
Calm or soothe (an angry person) lessen or soften
Necessitate
Require as a result of, be grounds for
Proliferate
Increase or spread rapidly
Rectify
Correct, amend, make right
Relegate
Downgrade, lower the rank or position of
Repudiate
Reject, cast off, deny something’s authority
Simulate
Imitate how something looks or acts
Transliterate
Represent using the corresponding letters of another alphabet or language
Typify
Be an ideal or representative example of.
Adduce
Give reason or proof to support a theory
Deduce
Draw a conclusion based on logic or reasoning
Deviate
Drift from an established or standard course
Dissipate
Steadily disappear or cause to steadily disappear, disperse
Eradicate
Obliterate, remove or destroy completely
Expropriate
Seize property from, dispossess
Induce
Persuade or influence into action, give rise to
Instantiate
Represent by occurrence or use of a congregate example.
Mandate
Instruct or command someone to act a certain way.
Subordinate
Put in such a position, lower position
Extoll
Allegation
A claim for which proof has not yet been provided
Coalition
An alliance or union joining together for action
Contention
An assertion
On lsat may mean an area of disagreement between parties
Evasion
Avoidance, the act of dodging something
Fragmentation
The process of being broken into smaller pieces
Nullification
The process of eliminating any legal or binding force
Overestimation
The act of judging or approximating something too highly
Pretension
A claim or an attempt to establish one
Prevarication
A group moving forward in an orderly way, likely for a ceremony of some sort
Protrusion
Something that sticks out
Reiteration
The act of restating or repeating something for emphasis or clarity
Rendition
The performance of dramatic role or musical piece.
Retention
The act of keeping possession or use of something
Supposition
Hypothesis, conjecture, belief formed without certainty
Acuity
Keenness in perception of hearing
Affinity
A natural liking or feeling of kinship toward someone or something
Ambiguity
A lack of clarity, openness to interpretation in more than one way
Animosity
Hostility
Civility
Polite or courteous behavior, the state of being civil
Commonality
A shared feature or characteristic
Domesticity
Life at home and/or with family or the quality of being domestic
Fallibility
Inclination to make mistakes.
Feasibility
Capability of being carried out or easily done
Multiplicity
A large number, big variety.
Plasticity
Ability to be easily shaped or molded
Precocity
Mental development that is achieved abnormally early
Propensity
Tendency to act a certain way, disposition toward or in favor of something
Veracity
Habitual adherence to truth, accuracy,
Virtuosity
Great skill, aptitude, or mastery within the fine arts
Aboriginal
First of its kind to inhabit a land or region
Archetypal
Original type which all those of the same type are modeled after. Representative of a certain type of person or thing.
Canonical
Conforming to accepted rule or orthodox procedures
Dialectical
Related to discussion and reasoning via dialogues
Fundamental
Essential to structure or function
Hierarchical
Arranged by rank
Inviolable
Incapable of being broken, dishonored, or breached
Irreducible
Unable to diminish or put into a simpler form.
Nominal
Exhausting in name form only, in contrast to an underlying reality
Pedagogical
Having to do with teaching or instruction
Peripheral
Relating to the edge or boundary of a field of vision
Proportional
Corresponding in size or degree
Trivial
Insignificant, unimportant, of little value
Unfathomable
Incomprehensible, incapable of being fully understood
Viable
Capable of functioning successfully
Aesthetic
Concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste
Archaic
Very old, out of date
Conducive
Promoting or assisting, helping make something possible
Corrosive
Causing to wear away, destructive
Counterintuitive
Contrary to what instinct or common sense would lead one to expect.
Erratic
Inconsistent, wandering, having no fixed course
Idiosyncratic
Peculiar, distinctive, individualistic