Ho-Re Flashcards
innate
A: inborn, spontaneous, natural.
“her innate capacity for organization”
molten
A: liquified, melted
predicament
N: a difficult, embarrassing or unpleasant situation
I really can’t understand how you allowed yourself to get into that predicament
kinetic
A: relating to or resulting from motion
morose
A: sullen and ill-tempered
she was morose when she got home
innocuous
A: not harmful or offensive
it was an innocuous question
N: innocuousness
predominate
V: be the strongest or main element; be greater in number or amount.
2. dominate, rule, override; have or exert control or power.
“small-scale producers predominate in the south”
2. “private interest was not allowed to predominate over the public good”
mystify
V: utterly bewilder or perplex (someone).
2. make obscure or mysterious.
“maladies that have mystified and alarmed researchers for over a decade”
2. “lawyers who mystify the legal system so that laymen/外行 find it unintelligible/impossible to understand”
malady
N: affliction, disease or ailment.
“an incurable malady”
jubilant
A: ecstatic, enraptured, euphoric; feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph.
crowds of jubilant crowds ran on deck
inundate
V: overburden; overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with.
“we’ve been inundated with complaints from listeners”
recalcitrant
A: ungovernable; having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.
“a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds”
N: a person with an obstinately uncooperative attitude.
“a stiff-necked recalcitrant and troublemaker”
jest
N: joke, gag, jape, pun; a thing said or done for amusement; a joke.
“it was said in jest”
V: speak or act in a joking manner.
“you jest, surely?”
