Group II List Flashcards
Amalgamate
To combine several elements into a whole
Assuage
To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
Bolster
To provide support or reinforcement
Burgeon
To grow rapidly or flourish
Buttress
A support or prop, often an external prop used to bolster a wall
Capricious
Inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
Caustic
Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
Decibel
Unit used in measuring the intensity of a sound, usually in relation to another sound
Desiccate
To dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
Distill
To purify or concentrate through a process of evaporation and concentration
Divest
To remove or strip, especially clothing
Enervate
To weaken, to reduce in vitality
Ephermeral
Brief; fleeting
Inchoate
In an initial stage; not fully formed
Infuse
to Imbue; to pour in; to introduce; to instill
Imbue
Inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality)
Intransigent
Refusing to compromise
In Trans- In Transit, you will not compromise where you are going
Inundate
To flood or overwhelm
Invigoration
The quality of being energized or filled with liveliness
Obviate
To anticipate and make unnecessary
Pervasive
Having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout
Plod
To trudge, to move slowly and heavily
iPod- heavy
Precipitate
To act with excessive haste or impulse
Precursor
One that precedes and indicates or announces another
Profilerate
To grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
Rarefy
To make or become thin, less dense, to refine
If forests become thin then animals will be rare
Rectify
To make right or fix, to correct
Viscous
Think, sticky
