Group 2 Flashcards
Assiduous
Showing great care and perseverance
Impassive
Not feeling or showing emotions
Unswerving
Not changing or becoming weaker. steady or constant
Abashed
Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed
Onerous
Involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome
Sophomoric
Pretentious or juvenile
Diatribe
A forceful and bitter verbal attack
Denigrate
Criticize unfairly
Astringent
Smells acidic or bitter. Causing the contraction of skin cells and other body tissue
Conciliatory
Intended to likely placate or pacify
Affront
An action or remark that causes outrage or offense
Credulous
Ready to believe anything
Consonant
A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partially obstructed. In agreement or harmony with
Comely
Pleasant to look at. Attractive.
Affable
Friendly and good natured
Specious
Misleading in appearance. Plausible but false
Recalcitrant
Uncooperative in attitude
Covert
Not openly acknowledged or displayed
Commiseration
Sympathy and sorrow for the misfortune of others. Compassion
Consternation
Feelings of anxiety and dismay, typically at something unexpected
Surrogate
a substitute, especially a person deputizing for another in a specific role or office.
Extraneous
Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.
Sojourn
A temporary stay
Mettlesome
Full of spirit and courage
Officious
Assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way. Intrusively enthusiastic in offering help, interfering
Ubiquity
The act of appearing everywhere, or being very common
Obtuse
Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand
Dilatory
Slow to act. Intended to cause delay
Edifices
A building, especially a large, imposing one. A complex system of beliefs
Desiccate
To dry out or dehydrate. To make dry or dull
Obviate
To anticipate and make unnecessary
Obdurate
Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action
Caustic
Able to burn or corrode organic tissue
Inchoate
Just begun. Not fully formed or developed
Propagate
To cause to spread, multiply or reproduce
Plod
To trudge. To move slowly and heavily
Distention
The state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape
Variegated
Exhibiting different colors, especially as irregular patterns or streaks
Recluse
A person who live a solitary life and tend to avoid other people
Imperturbable
Unable to be upset or excited. Calm
Irascible
Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered
Fervently
Very enthusiastically or passionately
Polemically
Contentious rhetoric intended to support a specific position
Abated
Become less intense or widespread
Propitiate
Offer a gift to appease someone
Windfall
A piece of unexpected good fortune
Emollient
Having the quality of softening or soothing the skin
Divest
To remove or strip, especially clothing
Opprobrium
Disgrace , contempt , shame
Prune
To cut back or clip branches or other parts of plants, especially parts that are dead.
