Green Apple Vocab Flashcards
Conscript
Person who is compulsory enrolled for military services
Continence
Self control
Contumacious
Disobedient; rebel
Coquette
Women who flirts
Covetous
Want of something owned by others
Cozen
Trickery; misleading
Credo
Statement of Brief
Default
Failure to act
Defunct
no longer existing
Desiccate
to dry completely
desultory
random; disconnnected
diaphanous
transparent; vague
dirge
funeral hymne
distend
to expand; to swell out
doctrine
dogmatic
doggerel
poor verse
dross
waste; worthless manner
effete
depeleted of vitality
Elysian
Delightful; blessful
Etiology
Causes or orgin
Evince
To show painly
Expatiate
to speak at length
Expatriate
to send into exile
Atone
to make amends
fetid
bad smell
feral
existing in wild; untamed state
factotum
a person who does all sorts of work
fiat
arbitary; order; authorisation
filibuster
use of obstruction; to block passage
fissure
crevice
forbearance
patience
fracas
a loud quarrel
froward
obstinately disobidient
fulminate
to attack loudly
Inured
make tough by habitual exposure
Intransigent
uncompromising
agog
very eager or curious
stolid
dully; rapid
panthemn
a group of respected, imp ppl
perfunctory
done without deal or effort
furitively
secretly
glib
fluent but not sincere
Guise
an outward apperance
Gouge
to tear out
gambol
to frolic
gustatory
affecting the sense of taste
Hallowed
HOLY
Hermetic
tightly sealed
Heterodox
unorthodox
Hieroglyphics
a system in which pics represent meaning
Hirsute
covered with hair
homeostasis
automatic maintencence by organism in balance with itself
Homily
tedious moralising lecture
Imbroglio
compilicated situation
Impair
to damage
impinge
collapse
incursion
sudden invasion
indolent
habitually lazy
insularity
narrowminded; isolation
interdict
to forbid ;prevent
inundate
to cover with water
invective
verbal abuse
inviengn
to disapprove
inveigle
to win over by flattery
invidious
likely to provoke ill will
jocose
jocular
labile
likely to change
lastitude
lethargy; tired
levee
an embankment that prevents river from overflowing
lilliputian
extremely small
limn
to draw ;to describe
litany
lengthy recitation
literati
scholarly of learned person
lucre
money or profit