Group 5 Flashcards
Anesthetic
Substance that causes insensibility and removes pain
Antipathy
Dislike
Astrologer
Someone who believes the stars and planets dictates the future
Aversion
An intense feeling of dislike or disgust
Bent
An inclination or tendency
Condone
To approve
Dogma
A set of religious principles
Ensure
Make certain
Equivocal
Ambiguous, doubtful, or uncertain
Extraneous
Irrelevant
EXTRA + ANUS…extra anus is not essential :p.
Illusory
Deceptive, based upon a false belief or impression
Insipir
Without taste or flavor, bland
Inured
Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
Miser
An individual who lives poorly in order to hoard money
Nonplussed
Baffled, in a quandary; at a loss for what to say or do
Penchant
Strong liking
P+enchant
Penury
Poverty
Preempt
take action in order to prevent (an anticipated event) from happening; forestall
Presumption
The act of making an assumption
Qualms
Misgivings, reservations
Quiescence
Stillness, quality of being at rest
Quiet + Essence = being still
Repudiate
To refuse to have anything to do with; to disown
Restitutions
The act of returning something to its proper owner
Savor
To enjoy
Solvent
Able to meet financial obligations
Stint
To restrain
Sounds like stunt, like stunting growth
Subjective
Not objective, based upon perceptions over fact
Trivial
Unimportant, lacking value
Veneration
Extreme respect; worship
