Hit Parade 4 Flashcards
Aggrandize
To increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige
Amenable
Agreeable, responsive to suggestion
Astringent
Having a tightening effect on living tissue, harsh, severe, something with a tightening effect on tissue
Credulous
Tending to believe too readily, gullible
Desiccate
To dry out or dehydrate, to make dry or dull
Dilettante
One with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
Flout
To show contempt for, as in a rule or convention
Glib
Marked by ease or informality, nonchalant, lacking in depth, superficial
Inimical
Damaging, harmful, injurious
Intractable
Not easily managed or directed, stubborn, obstinate
Obfuscate
To deliberately obscure, to make confusing
Phlegmatic
Calm, sluggish, unemotional
Probity
Adherence to highest principles, complete and confirmed integrity, uprightness
Profligate (adj)
Excessively wasteful, recklessly extravagant
Prosaic
Dull, lacking in spirit or imagination
Quixotic
Foolishly impractical, marked by lofty romantic ideals
Rarefy
To make or become thin, less dense, to refine
Recondite
Hidden, concealed, difficult to understand, obscure
Refulgent
Radiant, shiny, brilliant
Renege
To fail to honor a commitment, to go back on a promise
Sedulous
Diligent, persistent, hardworking
Spendthrift
One who spends money wastefully
Trenchant
Sharply perceptive, keen, penetrating
Untenable
Indefensible, not viable, uninhabitable
Variegated
Multicolored, characterized by a variety of patches of different color
Vituperate
To use harsh condemnatory language, to abuse or censure severely or abusively, to berate
