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
bulwark
a fencelike structure around a deck (usually plural);a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away;an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
disabuse
free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
catalyze
change by catalysis or cause to catalyze
gird
bind with something round or circular;prepare oneself for a military confrontation;put a girdle on or around;encircle or bind
unsullied
spotlessly clean and fresh;of reputation
exhortative
giving strong encouragement
patrimony
a church endowment;an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture)
defang
remove the fangs from
imprimatur
formal and explicit approval
fillip
anything that tends to arouse
sisyphean
both extremely effortful and futile
