Group 5 Words Flashcards
alloy (verb)
alloy (verb) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure
appropriate (verb)
appropriate (verb) to take for one’s own use; to confiscate
august (adj.)
august (adj.) majestic, venerable
bent (noun)
bent (noun) leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
brook (verb)
brook (verb) to tolerate; to endure; to countenance
chauvinist (noun)
chauvinist (noun) a blindly devoted patriot
damp (verb)
damp (verb) to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
essay (verb)
essay (verb) to test or try; to attempt; to experiment
fell (adj.)
fell (adj.) inhumanly cruel
flag (verb)
flag (verb) to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline
ford (verb)
ford (verb) to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
grouse (verb)
grouse (verb) to complain or grumble
guy (noun)/(verb)
guy (noun)/(verb) a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think guide. (verb form: guyed, guying )
list (verb)
list (verb) to tilt or lean to one side
pedestrian (adj.)
pedestrian (adj.) commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
scurvy (adj.)
scurvy (adj.) contemptible, despicable
stand (noun)
stand (noun) a group of trees
abjure (verb)
abjure (verb) to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
adumbrate (verb)
adumbrate (verb) to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
anathema (noun)
anathema (noun) a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
anodyne (adj.)/(noun)
anodyne (adj.)/(noun) soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
apogee (noun)
apogee (noun) farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
apostate (noun)
apostate (noun) one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
apotheosis (noun)
apotheosis (noun) deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection
asperity (noun)
asperity (noun) severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
asseverate (verb)
asseverate (verb) to aver, allege, or assert
augury (noun)
augury (noun) omen, portent
calumniate (verb)
calumniate (verb) to slander, to make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion
captious (adj.)
captious (adj.) disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
cavil (verb)
cavil (verb) to find fault without good reason
celerity (noun)
celerity (noun) speed, alacrity; think accelerate
chimera (noun)
chimera (noun) an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster
contumacious (adj.)
contumacious (adj.) insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion
denouement (noun)
denouement (noun) an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
descry (verb)
descry (verb) to catch sight of
desuetude (noun)
desuetude (noun) disuse
desultory (adj.)
desultory (adj.) random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
diaphanous (adj.)
diaphanous (adj.) transparent, gauzy
diffident (adj.)
diffident (adj.) reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
dirge (noun)
dirge (noun) a song of grief or lamentation
encomium (noun)
encomium (noun) glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
exegesis (noun)
exegesis (noun) critical examination, explication
expiate (verb)
expiate (verb) to atone or make amends for
extirpate (verb)
extirpate (verb) to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind
fatuous (adj.)
fatuous (adj.) silly, inanely foolish
gainsay (verb)
gainsay (verb) to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose
imbroglio (noun)
imbroglio (noun) difficult or embarrassing situation
indefatigable (adj.)
indefatigable (adj.) not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
ineluctable (adj.)
ineluctable (adj.) certain, inevitable
insouciant (adj.)
insouciant (adj.) unconcerned, carefree, heedless
inveterate (adj.)
inveterate (adj.) deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
jejune (adj.)
jejune (adj.) vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature,
mendicant (noun)
mendicant (noun) a beggar, supplicant
meretricious (adj.)
meretricious (adj.) cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
minatory (adj.)
minatory (adj.) menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)
obstreperous (adj.)
obstreperous (adj.) noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
ossified (adj.)
ossified (adj.) tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone
palliate (verb)
palliate (verb) to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
panegyric (noun)
panegyric (noun) formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise
parsimonious (adj.)
parsimonious (adj.) cheap, miserly
pellucid (adj.)
pellucid (adj.) transparent, easy to understand, limpid
peroration (noun)
peroration (noun) the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
plangent (adj.)
plangent (adj.) pounding, thundering, resounding
prolix (adj.)
prolix (adj.) long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity
propitiate (verb)
propitiate (verb) to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable
puerile (adj.)
puerile (adj.) childish, immature,
puissance (noun)
puissance (noun) power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong
pusillanimous (adj.)
pusillanimous (adj.) cowardly, craven
remonstrate (verb)
remonstrate (verb) to protest, to object
sagacious (adj.)
sagacious (adj.) having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage
salutary (adj.)
salutary (adj.) remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
timorous (adj.)
timorous (adj.) timid, fearful, diffident
vitiate (verb)
vitiate (verb) to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective
voluble (adj.)
voluble (adj.) fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
