Group 12 Flashcards
Acrimonious
Angry and bitter
Belligerent
hostile and aggressive
Beneficent
generous and doing good
Canny
showing shrewdness and good judgement especially in money or business
Cavalier
Dashing man as a lady’s escort/showing lack of concern
Distressed
Suffered from extreme anxiety, sorrow or pain
Dwindling
Gradually diminishing in size, amount or strength
Eclipse
deprive something of significance and power
Encyclopedia
Comprehensive in terms of information
Exacerbate
Make problems worse
Exasperated
Intensely irritated and frustrated
Fungible
Mutually interchangeable
Hackneyed
having been overused; unoriginal and trite
Incongruous
not in harmony or keeping with surroundings
Interchangeable
Apparently identical
Laconic
Using very few words
Lucrative
providing a great deal or profit
Magisterial
Domineering, dictatorial
Onerous
Involving great deal of effort, trouble, and burdensome
Oppobrium
Harsh criticism or censure
Parsimonious
very unwilling to spend money or use resources
Peripheral
Minor importance, marginal
Provocative
Causing anger or another strong reaction, especially deliberately/annoying
Renounce
Formally declare one’s abandoment
Tempestuous
Characterized by strong or conflicting emotion
Tenable
Defensible
Transgression
Act that goes against law
Urbane
Courteous and refined in manner
Verisimilitude
The appearance of being true or real
Vitiate
Spoil or impair thee quality or efficiency of something
