Group B Flashcards
Festoon
To adorn or decorate with ribbons, garlands, or other embellishments.
Firmament
The heavens or sky, especially when regarded as a tangible thing.
Flag
To signal or indicate, often by lowering or raising a flag.
Flip
To turn over or cause to turn over with a sudden movement.
Flora
The plants of a particular region, habitat, or geological period.
Flout
To openly disregard a rule or law.
Foment
To instigate or stir up (an undesirable or violent sentiment or course of action).
Forbearance
The act of refraining from enforcing a debt, right, or obligation.
Forestall
To prevent or obstruct (an anticipated event or action) by taking action ahead of time.
Forswear
To agree to give up or renounce a belief or claim.
Forward
To send or direct something to a destination.
Fracas
A noisy disturbance or quarrel.
Fractious
Irritable and quarrelsome.
Frission
A sudden strong feeling of excitement or fear; a thrill.
Froward
Difficult to deal with; contrary.
Fulminate
To express vehement protest.
Gainsay
To deny or contradict.
Gambol
To run or jump about playfully.
Garner
To gather or collect (something, especially information or approval).
Garrulous
Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.
Gauche
Lacking ease or grace; unsophisticated and socially awkward.
Germane
Relevant to a subject under consideration.
Glib
Fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow.
Gloam
Twilight; dusk.
Gossamer
A fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs spun by small spiders.
Grandiloquence
Pompous or extravagant language.
Gregarious
Fond of company; sociable.
Grouse
To complain or grumble.
Guile
Sly or cunning intelligence.
Guileless
Devoid of guile; innocent and without deception.
Guy
A man; a person.
Hackneyed
Lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal.
Halcyon
Denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful.
Hale
Strong and healthy.
Harangue
A lengthy and aggressive speech.
Harrow
To cause distress to.
Hegemony
Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others.
Hermeneutic
Relating to the interpretation of texts, especially religious ones.
Hermetic
Complete and airtight; often used to describe a seal.
Heterodox
Not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs.
Hirsute
Hairy; covered with hair.
Homiletics
The art of preaching or writing sermons.
Homily
A religious discourse that is intended primarily for spiritual edification.
Hubris
Excessive pride or self-confidence.
Iconoclasm
The action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions.
Idyll
An extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene.
Ignominious
Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.
Imbroglio
A complicated and confusing situation.
Immutable
Unchanging over time or unable to be changed.
Impassive
Not feeling or showing emotion.
Impecunious
Having little or no money.
Imperious
Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering.
Implacable
Unable to be placated; relentless.
Import
To bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale.
Importunate
Persistent, especially to the point of annoyance.
Importune
To ask someone pressingly and persistently for or to do something.
Impugn
To dispute the truth, validity, or honesty of a statement or motive.
Impunity
Exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action.
Impute
To attribute (responsibility or fault) to something.
Inchoate
Just begun and not fully formed or developed.
Incorrigible
Not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed.
Inculcate
To instill an idea, attitude, or habit by persistent instruction.
Indolent
Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy.
Ineluctable
Inevitable; inescapable.
Inerrant
Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong.
Ingenue
An innocent or unsophisticated young woman.
Ingenuous
Innocent and unsuspecting.
Inimical
Tending to obstruct or harm.
Inimitable
So good or unusual as to be impossible to copy; unique.
Iniquitous
Grossly unfair and morally wrong.
Innervate
To stimulate or supply with energy.
Insipid
Lacking flavor, vigor, or interest.
Insouciant
Showing a casual lack of concern; indifferent.
Insular
Ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one’s own experience.
Interdict
To prohibit or forbid something.
Interdiction
The act of prohibiting or forbidding something.
Interstice
An intervening space, especially a very small one.
Intractable
Hard to control or deal with.
Intransigent
Unwilling or refusing to change one’s views or to agree about something.
Inundate
To overwhelm someone with things or people to be dealt with.
Inure
To accustom (someone) to something, especially something unpleasant.
Inveigh
To speak or write about (something) with great hostility.
Inveigle
To persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery.
Inveterate
Having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change.
Isthmus
A narrow strip of land with sea on either side, forming a link between two larger areas of land.
Itinerate
To travel from place to place.
Jaundiced
Having a prejudiced view, especially due to envy or resentment.
Jejune
Naive, simplistic, and superficial.
Jibe
To make insulting or mocking remarks.
Jocose
Characterized by joking; playful.
Jocund
Cheerful and lighthearted.
Ken
To know or recognize.
Kinetic
Relating to or resulting from motion.
Labile
Liable to change; unstable.
Laconic
Using very few words.
Limn
To depict or describe in painting or words.
Limpid
Clear and accessible or melodious.
List
To lean to one side.
Magnanimity
The fact or condition of being generous or noble.
Malevolent
Having or showing a wish to do evil to others.
Malinger
To pretend to be ill in order to escape duty or work.
Manifold
Many and various.
March
To walk quickly and with determination.
Maunder
To talk in a rambling manner.
Maverick
An independent-minded person.
Melifluous
Having a smooth, rich flow; pleasing to the ear.
Mendacity
Untruthfulness.
Mendicant
A beggar.
Meretricious
Appearing attractive but having in reality no value or integrity.
Mettlesome
Full of spirit and courage; spirited.
Militate
To have a substantial effect; to weigh heavily.
Milk
To extract milk from (a cow or other animal).
Minatory
Expressing or conveying a threat.
Mince
To cut up or grind (food) into very small pieces.
Mitigate
To make less severe, serious, or painful.
Mollify
To appease the anger or anxiety of someone.
Mordant
Having or showing a sharp or critical quality.
Moribund
At the point of death; in terminal decline.
Mulct
To extract money from (someone) by fine or taxation.
Multifarious
Many and of various types.
Nacreous
Resembling mother-of-pearl; iridescent.
Nadir
The lowest point in the fortunes of a person or organization.
Natty
Neat and tidy in appearance.
Neologism
A newly coined word or expression.
Nexus
A connection or series of connections linking two or more things.
Nice
Pleasant; agreeable.
Nonplussed
Surprised and confused so much that one is unsure how to react.
Nostrum
A medicine, especially one that is not considered effective.
Numinous
Having a strong religious or spiritual quality.
Obdurate
Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action.
Obloquy
Strong public criticism or verbal abuse.
Obsequious
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
Obstreperous
Noisy and difficult to control.
Obtain
To get, acquire, or secure something.
Obtest
To call upon (a deity) to witness or to affirm.
Obtuse
Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.
Obviate
To remove (a need or difficulty).
Occlude
To stop, close up, or obstruct.
Occult
Relating to mystical, supernatural, or magical powers or phenomena.
Officious
Assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way.
Oneiric
Relating to dreams.
Onerous
Involving a great deal of effort, trouble, or difficulty.
Opprobium
Harsh criticism or censure.
Ossified
Having become rigid or fixed in attitude or position.
Ostensible
Stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.
Ostentatious
Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress.
Otiose
Serving no practical purpose; useless.
Ouevre
The complete works or body of work produced by an artist.
Overweening
Showing excessive confidence or pride.
Overwrought
In a state of nervous excitement or anxiety.
Paean
A song of praise or triumph.
Pale
To decrease in relative importance.
Palliate
To make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cause.
Palpable
Able to be touched or felt; clear to the mind.
Panegyric
A public speech or published text in praise of someone or something.
Panoply
A complete or impressive collection of things.
Paramour
A lover, especially the illicit partner of a married person.
Pariah
An outcast.
Parsimonious
Unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal.
Partisan
A strong supporter of a party, cause, or person.
Peccadillo
A small, relatively unimportant offense or sin.
Peckish
Hungry; slightly hungry.
Pecunious
Wealthy.
Pedantic
Excessively concerned with minor details or rules.
Pedestrian
Lacking inspiration or excitement; dull.
Pellucid
Translucently clear.
Penurious
Extremely poor; poverty-stricken.
Peregrinate
To travel or wander around from place to place.
