Highlighting Accomplishments and Justifying Efforts & Goals Flashcards
buttress
a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building;make stronger or defensible;reinforce with a buttress
circumscribe
draw a line around;to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect;restrict or confine, “I limit you to two visits to the pub a day”
exacting
requiring precise accuracy;severe and unremitting in making demands;having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
supplant
take the place or move into the position of
forestall
keep from happening or arising; make impossible;act in advance of; deal with ahead of time
mollify
make less rigid or softer;make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate;cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
decry
express strong disapproval of
burnish
the property of being smooth and shiny;polish and make shiny
eviscerate
having been disembowelled;verbtake away a vital or essential part of;remove the contents of;remove the entrails of;surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ
circumspection
the quality of being wary and unwilling to take risks; prudence.
coalescence
the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts
slavish
abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant;blindly imitative
ameliorate
get better;to make better
bastion
projecting part of a rampart or other fortification;a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle;a group that defends a principle
husband
a married man; a woman’s partner in marriage;use cautiously and frugally
