Hot Prospect Flashcards
Antediluvian
Ridiculously old-fashioned.
Antipathy
A deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion.
Arable
Used or suitable for growing crops
Atrophy
Waste away, typically due to the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution.
Audacious
Showing a willingness to take bold risks: “an audacious takeover”, Showing an impudent lack of respect: “an audacious remark”.
Avarice
Extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
Avert
prevent - divert - avoid - head off - stave off
Beguile
deceive - cheat - delude - trick - swindle - hoodwink
Bequeath
Leave (a personal estate or one’s body) to a person or other beneficiary by a will: “an identical sum was bequeathed by Tomo”.
Blighted
Spoil, harm, or destroy: “the scandal blighted the careers of several politicians”; “his father’s blighted ambitions”.
Certitude
certainty - assurance - sureness - surety - confidence
Circumlocution
The use of many words where fewer would do, esp. in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive.
Complementary
Combining in such a way as to enhance or emphasize each other’s qualities, supplementary - additional - further - expletive
Confluence
An act or process of merging
Depose
Remove from office suddenly and forcefully OR Testify to or give (evidence) on oath, typically in a written statement.
Desiccate
dry - exsiccate - drain - parch - dry up - wither
Disquiet
A feeling of anxiety or worry.
Edify
Instruct or improve (someone) morally or intellectually.
Efface
obliterate - erase - delete - expunge - rub out
Elegy
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead, A piece of music in a mournful style.
Elucidate
explain - clarify - illuminate - illustrate - expound
Emaciated
bony: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; “emaciated bony hands”; “a nightmare population of gaunt men
Equanimity
Mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, esp. in a difficult situation.
Evanescent
Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.
Fitful
Active or occurring spasmodically or intermittently; not regular or steady.
Glacial
icy - frosty - gelid - frigid - freezing
Incidental
accidental - adventitious - casual - fortuitous - random
Indolent
lazy - idle - sluggish - slothful - supine - slack
Inexorable
unrelenting - relentless - implacable - grim - merciless
Insolvent
Unable to pay debts: “an insolvent company”
Insuperable
insurmountable - invincible - unconquerable
Laggard
Slower than desired or expected.
Lithe
(esp. of a person’s body) Thin, supple, and graceful.
Lurid
ghastly - macabre - gruesome
Meander
Follow a winding course
Mercurial
Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes
Mosaic
A picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass.
Parsimony
miserliness - thrift - stinginess - frugality - avarice
Penury
Extreme poverty; destitution.
Pernicious
Having a harmful effect, esp. in a gradual or subtle way.
Pithy
Concise and forcefully expressive.
Prattle
Foolish or inconsequential talk: “this childish prattle”.
Precarious
uncertain - insecure - dubious - doubtful - unsafe
Profligate
Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.
Querulous
Complaining in a petulant or whining manner: “she became querulous and demanding”.
Quiescent
still - quiet - calm - tranquil - placid - composed
Raucous
hoarse - husky - rough - gruff - harsh - throaty - thick
Raze
rase - demolish - destroy
Remission
pardon - forgiveness
Replete
Filled or well-supplied with something.
Resplendent
shining - bright - brilliant - refulgent - luminous
Sedentary
Characterized by much sitting and little physical exercise.
Surfeit
An excessive amount of something: “a surfeit of food and drink”.
Tantamount
equivalent - equal
Threadbare
shabby - worn-out - well-worn - outworn - trite - stale
Trepidation
tremble - tremor - anxiety - alarm - fear
Truncate
Shorten (something) by cutting off the top or the end: “a truncated cone shape”.
Unkempt
disheveled - dishevelled - untidy - slovenly - scruffy
Viable
Capable of working successfully; feasible: “the proposed investment was economically viable”.
Witticism
joke - quip - jest - wisecrack - wit - sally