IM ON A HIGHWAY TO HELL Flashcards
Protection/support from another organization
Aegis
To inform
Apprise
Very absorbant/alcoholic
Bibulous
Fake admires for hire
Claque
To completely remove all traces of something
Deracinate
Charitable aid
Eleemosynary
native; originating from a place
indigenous
sad/tragic/tear inducing
Lachrymose
The entirety of a set of words in certain language/the vocabulary of an entity/ a dictionary/wordbook
Lexicon
Confused fight/skirmish/struggle
Melee
Smaller replica of a larger version
microcosom
Very small/tiny/lowercase letter
minuscule
to darken/obscure/confuse/bewilder
obfuscate
governing people like a father dealing with his children, infringing on autonomy
paternalism
to divide into two contrasting groups
polarize
Range of experience/thought/influence
purview
optimism in a bad situation
sanguine
mistake in grammar/manners
solecism
submissive/under protection and alligence of feudal lord
vassal
realistic/lifelike
verisimilitude
Additional/supplementary rather than necessary
Adjunct
Indicator of events
bellwether
howl/wail
caterwaul
unreal/imaginary/visionary
chimerical
weakened/worn out
effete
Accomplished thing that’s irreversible
Fait Accompli
unwilling to change because of tradition or convention
hidebound
Chain of command, ranking
Hierarchy
ritual, worship, ceremony
liturgy
illusion, fantasy, hallucination
mirage
swamp, muddy ground, unstable ground, quagmire
morass
unpleasant, displeasing, offensive
noisome
lacking memory, attention, awareness
oblivious
spiritless coward
poltroon
attempt to convert one to religion or belif
proselytizing
resembling, having some but not all features of
quasi
good humored teasing
raillery
crude, offensive, indecent humor
ribald
laying down, facing upward, failing to act or protest, moral weekness
supine
brief description, account, episode
vignette
additional, helping, assisting, auxillary, accessory
ancillary
censoring, removing, purging improper material, weaker/less effective text
bowdlerize
to patronize, stoop low, show feelings of superiority
condescend
cheating, swindling, scamming
cozen
place/group of people different from surrounding society
enclave
strong point/strength
forte
free of charge
gratis
representative/legend/celebraty/symbol
iconsm
all space between two things, interval, canny, gap
interstice
whole complex structure, world/globe
macrocosm
person who tricks people
mountebank
song/thing that express triumph
paean
lighthearted joking
persiflage
plenty, overabundance, surplus
plethora
sensible, down to earth
pragmatic
questioning, perplexed, puzzled, baffled, peculiar
quizzical
strong desire to take things for yourself, greed, selfish desire for wealth
rapacity
split, division, rift by opposing beliefs
schism
healing/curing/medicinal
therapeutic
expert, genius, prodigy
virtuoso