Internet Words II Flashcards
Aquiline
shaped like an eagle’s beak; hooked.
Arcadian
rural, rustic, or pastoral, especially suggesting simple, innocent contentment.
Arid
being without moisture; extremely dry; parched:
Arresting
attracting or capable of attracting attention or interest; striking:
Artful
slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky:
Articulate
to utter clearly and distinctly; pronounce with clarity.
Artifacts
any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use.
Artifices
a clever trick or stratagem; a cunning, crafty device or expedient; wile.
Artisans
a person skilled in an applied art; a craftsperson.
Artless
free from deceit, cunning, or craftiness; ingenuous:
Ascertain
to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine:
Ascetic
a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
Askance
with suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval:
Assent
to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to):
to give in; yield; concede:
Asserts
to state with assurance, confidence, or force; state strongly or positively; affirm; aver:
Assiduous
constant in application or effort; working diligently at a task; persevering; industrious; attentive:
Assuage
to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate:
Austerity
austere quality; severity of manner, life, etc.; sternness.
Autodidact
A self-taught person.
Avant garde
the advance group in any field, especially in the visual, literary, or musical arts, whose works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods.
Avaricious
characterized by avarice; greedy; covetous.
Aver
to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
Averse
having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed:
Aversion
a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually followed by to):
Balkanized
to divide (a country, territory, etc.) into small, quarrelsome, ineffectual states.
Banal
devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite:
Bane
a person or thing that ruins or spoils:
death; destruction; ruin.
Baneful
destructive; pernicious:
Pernicious
fatal
Baroque
of or relating to a style of architecture and art originating in Italy in the early 17th century
of or relating to the musical period following the Renaissance, extending roughly from 1600 to 1750.
Bask
to lie in or be exposed to a pleasant warmth:
Bedlam
a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.
Beguiled
to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
Belie
to misrepresent:
Belletristic
literature regarded as a fine art, especially as having a purely aesthetic function.
Bellicose
inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.
Besmirch
to soil; tarnish; discolor.
to detract from the honor or luster of:
Besotted
intoxicated; drunk:
infatuated or obsessed:
Bifurcated
to divide or fork into two branches.
Blandishments
something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice, etc.:
Blatant
offensively noisy or loud; clamorous:
Blithe
joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful:
Blunt
to weaken or impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility of:
Bodes
to announce beforehand; predict.
Bombastic
High-sounding; high-flown; inflated; pretentious.
Bonobo
pygmy chimpanzee.
Boondoggle
work of little or no value done merely to keep or look busy.
Boorish
of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
Brandishes
to shake or wave, as a weapon; flourish:
Bucolic
of or relating to shepherds; pastoral.
Buoyancy
the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
Burgeoning
to grow or develop quickly; flourish:
Bustle
to move or act with a great show of energy
Buttress
any external prop or support built to steady a structure by opposing its outward thrusts, especially a projecting support built into or against the outside of a masonry wall.
