Group 16 Flashcards
Antedate
Go back in time
Bridle
Show one’s anger
Mnemonic- A bride show’s anger
Crestfallen
Sad and disappointed
Mnemonic- after falling from a mountain crest, you are sad
Vociferous
Expressed by intense opinions,
Loud and cheerful
Mnemonic- Voice+ furious
Visionary
Planning the future with imagination
Vision
Synoptic
Summary of the general view as a whole
Sounds like synopsis
Superfluous
More than needed or required, unnecessary
Mnemonic- sounds like surplus
Skittish
(for animal)- easily scared
(for person)- unpredictable
Ruminate
Think deeply about something
Mnemonic- rum peeke think about something deeply
Relinquish
Give up
Recondite
Little known, Abstruse, Obscure
Mnemonic- Re+Conduct—> professor reconducted the lectures since the students couldn’t understand properly
Profligate
Recklessly extravagant or
Wasteful in the use of resources
Mnemonic- spend profusely like bill gates
Lionize
Object of great importance, great public attention
Mnemonic- lion is v important in animal kingdom
Inscrutable
Impossible to understand
Mnemonic- screw table impossible
Curtain
A disastrous outcome
Elucidate
Make something clear
Lucid
Feckless
Irresponsible
Reckless
Fester
Become worse
Mnemonic- fest becomes fester each year
Iconoclastic
Criticizing beliefs
Mnemonic- Idol clash, if you crash idols
Immure
Confine within the walls
Mnemonic- sounds like i am yours, please enclose me within walls of your heart
Inhibit
Hinder, Prevent something from happening
Synonyms- impede, hamper
