Group 34 Flashcards
Abrasive
- Overly aggresive and causing irritation
- Rough enough to wear away the outher surface
Artful
- Skillful at using dishonest or unfair means to achieve a purpose
- Performed with cleverness; ingenious
Avert
Prevent the occurance of
Avid
Enthusiastic; showing great interest in something or desire to do something
Brevity
- Conciseness
- Quality of being brief in duration
Bromide
A trite and unoriginal remark
Circumstantial
- Suggesting guilt, but not proving it conclusively
- In great detail
Cloying
- Unpleasantly excessive; excessively sweet
Counterfeit
False, especially of money; inauthentic
Denigrate
Criticize so as to disparage or defame
Disciple
- An active follower of someone, or some philosophy
- Train, educate
Extol
Praise highly; express admiration
Forebode
Be prescient of some ill or misfortune; inward conviction of a calamity to happen
Ideologue
A person who advocates an ideology
Impediment
A hindrance which obstructs progress; a disability affecting the hearing or speech
Imperative
- Extremely important
- Expressing a command
Impulsive
Making rapid decisions carelessly
Interminable
Existing without and end; ceaseless
Intuitive
- Spontaneous, without requiring conscious thought
- Easily understood or grasped by intuition
Lassitude
Lack of energy, fatigue
Omit
Leave out or exclude; fail to do
Ornate
Elaborately ornamented, often to excess
Paltry
Of little monetary worth; trivial
Pejorative
Disparaging; a negative remark
Prefigure
Show or suggest ahead of time; predict or forsee
Presage
- Foretell something
- A warning
Prescribe
- Recommend; assert authoritatively
- Order the use of medication for a particular patient
Prevail
- Emerge victorious or dominant
- Be current, widespread or predominant
- Succeed in persuading
Propitiate
Make peace with; appease or pacify
Recapitulate
- Summarize or repeat in consice form
- Reproduce or closely resemble