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
