Group 1 Flashcards
Munificent
Larger or more generous than is usual or necessary
Dour
Relentlessly severe, stern, or gloomy in manner or appearance
Slatwart
Loyal, reliable and hardworking
Affected
Influenced or touched by an external factor. artificial, pretentious, and designed to impress.
Dogged
Having or showing tenacity and grim persistence
Blithe
Showing a casual and cheerful indifference. Considered Callous and improper
Clairvoyant
A person who claims to have a supernatural ability to see the future
Lackluster
Lacking in vitality, force, convention. Uninspiring.
Touted
Attempt to sell something, typically in aggressive or bold manner
Approbation
Approval or praise
Blunted
make or become less sharp, weaken or reduce in force
Scant
A small or insufficient amount
Apposite
Things that are compatible, goes together
Repudiation
Rejection of a proposal or idea. Denial of the truth of something
Bulwark
A defensive wall. Extension of a ship’s side above deck level
Nascent
Just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of life
Enumeration
The action of mentioning a number of things one by one
Inundate
To flood, overwhelm
Callous
Showing or having insensitive and cruel disregard for others
Rotund
Plump (fat), indulging in grandiloquent expressions
Lugubrious
Looking or sounding sad and dismal
Despondent
In low spirit from loss of hope or courage
Aggregate
The total amount. Form a group into class or cluster
Pandemonium
Wild and noisy disorder or confusion. Uproar.
Penurious
Extremely poor
Interpid
Fearless
Surfeit
An excessive amount of something
Vestige
A trace of something that is disappearing or no longer exist
Proclivity
A tendency to choose or do something regulary
Perfunctory
Carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection
Variegation
Appearance of differently colored zones in leaves
Dissemble
To disguise or conceal. To mislead
Abscond
Leave in a hurry and secret
Opprobrium
Harsh criticism or censure. the public disgrace arising from someone’s shameful conduct.
Squander
Waste in a reckless and foolish manner
Discomfit
Make feel uneasy or embarrassed
Indolence
Avoidance of activity or exertion. Laziness.
Avers
State or assert to be the case
Exculpates
Show or declare that someone is not guilty of wrong doing
Forswears
Agree to give up or do something. Swears falsely.
Substantiates
Provide evidence to support or prove the truth
Broaches
Raise for discussion. Pierce a cask to draw liquor.
Verdant
Green with grass or other green vegetation
Insipid
Lacking flavor. Lacking vigor or interest.
Lucid
Easily understood
Virulent
Extremely severe or harmful in effect. Bitterly hostile.
Endemic
Regularly found among particular people or certain area. Native and restricted to a certain place
Moribound
At the point of death
Deft
Neatly skillful and quick in one’s movement
Meek
Quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on. Submissive
