Intermediate Flashcards
Histrionic
Overly dramatic
Artifice
Trickery
Truculence
Tendency to fight
Malinger
Avoid work
Solicitous
Anxious to please
*prostitute solicits a customer
Capitulate
Surrender
- the captain capitulated after his ship was surrounded by pirates
Epigram
Witty saying
Adjudicate
Judge
*The judge quickly adjudicated the defendant as guilty so she could go to lunch
Jingoist
Overly patriotic
*the jingoist’s were very jingoistic towards their home country, Jingoistia
Celerity
Quickness
*the rabbit had to eat his celery with celerity so he wouldn’t be eaten himself
Tempestuous
Intensely emotional
*she became tempestuous while watching the notebook; her tears were like a tempest
Precipitate
Hasty
*our precipitate formed precipitously in chemistry lab so we failed the class
Solicitude
Feeling of concern
- I expressed my solicitude when she began soliciting men for drug money
Apothegm
Short saying
*an apothegm was made about making apotheosis of celebrities: you should never meet your heroes
Machinate
Scheme
*the machinist kept machinating how to get out of his nightmare
Noisome
Foul smelling
*the rotten eggs were very noisome to niles’ nose
Puissant
Powerful
Unpropitious
Unlikely to succeed
*he had the unpropitious task of scaling Mt. Unpropitious
Surreptitious
Stealthy
- Sarah surreptitiously stole the syrup from the counter top so no one else could enjoy their pancakes
Inure
Harden
*the manure inured overnight during the snowstorm until it was rock hard the next day
Lachrymose
Weepy
