Group 20 Flashcards
Abreast
Side to side
Breasts are side to side, alongside each other, facing the same way
There’s nothing worse than being stuck on a narrow path behind two people walking abreast of one another. If they only knew you were there, they’d walk single file so you could pass them. Abreast means side by side.
Confound
Mistake one for another/ overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
CONFOUND = CONfused + dumbFOUNDed/Confounded argument
If you have an identical twin, you’ve probably tried dressing alike so that people confound you with, or mistake you for, one another.
Digression
A message that departs from the main subject
Opp. of Progression - we keep moving forward without deviating from main
When your essay about French cooking starts describing a childhood trip to Disneyland, it’s taken a digression — it’s strayed from the main topic.
Discrepancy
A difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
A lack of agreement or balance
If there is a discrepancy between the money you earned and the number on your paycheck, you should complain to your boss.
Duplicitous
Deceitful, (law) containing more than one allegation
Duplicate or deceitful
That guy in the drama club who tells everyone he hates organized sports one day and then joins the football team the next? He’s being duplicitous, or pretending to have feelings that his actions contradict.
Expedient
A means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
Politically expedient means something you do to advance yourself politically. Use expedient when you want to hint that a particular solution or strategy has certain benefits and advantages but is not completely fair. However, expedient can also be used as a noun to describe something practical for a particular purpose.
Fabricate
Invent in order to deceive/contruct or manufacture especially from prepared component
Fabricate evidence
Glum
Looking or feeling dejected, morose, gloomy
Glum - Gloomy
To be glum is to be sad. Glum is a word for being depressed, bummed out, or down in the dumps.
Harbinger
A person or thing that announces or signals the approaches of another
sounds like HER FINGER,she shows what is about to happen by using finger
A harbinger is something that comes before and that shows what will follow in the future. The robin is a harbinger of spring — its presence means spring is coming soon.
Intrinsic
Belonging naturally, essential
Opposite of extrinsic
Largess
Generosity in bestowing money or gifts
Largess=Large Social Service, large gift to society
If your neighbors bring you an expensive watch from Switzerland because you fed their cat while they were traveling, thank them for their largesse.
Libertine
A person who freely indulges in sensual pleasures without moral principles
Liberal Teens, spoilt
If you drink a lot, eat a lot, and live a wild and unrestrained life, you might be called a libertine.
A libertine is someone who lives life unencumbered by morals. Although it can be used neutrally, often if someone calls you a libertine, they disapprove of your lack of morality. In the 14th century, a libertine was “a freed slave,” from the Latin liber, “free.”
Malfeasance
wrongdoing, especially by a public official
MAL FEES = sounds like bribe
Whenever you see the prefix “mal-,” you know it’s not good. Malfeasance is bad behavior, especially from officials or people who should know better.
Manifest
Obvious/demonstrate/become apparent through the appearance of a symptoms, (of ghost) appear
Choose the verb manifest when someone shows something for everyone to notice. You might manifest your dislike of school food by stirring it around into a big pile of slop on your tray.
Minute
Insignificant/taking the smaller points into consideration
Minute details
Modish
Following what is currently popular and fashionable
GIRLISH is girl like, MODISH is Model like, very stylish and fashionable
The word modish is a combination of the French mode meaning “fashion” and the suffix -ish meaning “very common.” When something is modish, it’s all the rage. A swanky restaurant where it’s hard to get a table or a boutique selling the newest designer labels are considered modish, or in vogue. Open up the pages of Vogue and you’ll be accosted with the latest modish looks.
Nascent
Being born or beginning, just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential
“new soul sent” to earth
The adjective nascent describes the birth or beginning of something, like a civilization, a trend, an idea, or an action. If your idea for a time machine is nascent, it needs a lot more work before you’ll be ready to travel to ancient Egypt.
Perennial
Everlasting/ permanently engaged in a specific role or way of life
Perennial typically describes things that are permanent, constant, or repeated. If you fight with your parents every year over whether they really must invite your annoying cousins for Thanksgiving, you could call that a perennial conflict.
Pious
devotedly religious/hypocrite//(of a hope)sincere but not likely to be fulfilled
If someone is deeply religious and visibly follows all the moral and ethical codes of his religion, he is pious. Don’t become a priest if you’re not prepared to live a pious life.
Providential
Peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention
Synonyms: Heaven-sent, miraculous
If your best friend pulls up beside you in her convertible just as your bike gets a flat tire, you could call it providential, or magically lucky.
Prowess
Expertise in a particular activity or field/bravery in battle
Virat Kohli’s prowess as a cricketer
Prowess means exceptional skill or ability. Your sailing prowess might save your life in a storm, while someone with less experience might make mistakes.
Schism
A separation or division into factions
Slander
defame, making false statements
Stalwart
Royal, reliable and hardworking
Supplicate
Ask or beg something earnestly or humbly
Terse
sparing in the use of words, abrupt
Tirade
A long angry speech of criticism or accusation
Universal
applicable to all cases/ubiqutous
Vanquish
defeat thoroughly, conquer
Woeful
very bad/ causing sorrow or misery
