Group 6 Flashcards
Admonish
v: scold someone seriously
v: give someone urgent advice
Aesthetic
a: pertaining to beauty or the appreciation thereof
Affectation
n: a pretense or show meant to impress others
Alleviate
v: lessen the intensity or severity of something negative; relieve
Analogous
a: comparable or similar to
Bolster
v: lend support or boost; reinforce
Chauvinistic
a: excessively patriotic or biased in favor of a group or cause
Connoisseur
n: a discerning expert in matters of taste
Dissemble
v: hide or misrepresent one’s true feelings or beliefs; bluff
Dogged
a: demonstrating tenacity or unwillingness to give up
Dupe
v: trick or fool someone
Empirical
a: based on observation or experience rather than conjecture; factual
Engender
v: produce or stimulate the development of something
Entitled
a: assuming oneself to be deserving of special rights or priviliges
Pertinacious
a: stubbornly holding onto a belief or course of action
Presumptuous
a: overstepping boundaries, often in an overconfident way; arrogant
Probity
n: the characteristic of having strong ethical standards; integrity
Proliferate
v: rapidly increase or multiply in number
Specious
a: seemingly reasonable but actually wrong; misleading
Spurious
a: not genuine, bogus
Subjective
a: pertaining to personal feelings rather than objective reality
Subvert
v: undermine or weaken, typically an authority of some sort
Timorous
a: displaying nervousness, lacking confidence
Tortuous
a: marked by numerous twists or turns; winding
a: overly complicated and long; convoluted
