JKL Flashcards
Jaunty
Stylish and cheerful
Jaded
A
Describes one who is left only tired by banal activities
Jejune
Jih JOON
1 uninteresting or insignificant. Many people claim to find celebrity gossip jejune
2 not nutritional
3 immature
Jingoist
JIN go ist
Jingoism is an extreme form of patriotism that often calls for violence towards foreigners and foreign countries.
Xenophobic
Jollity
Joviality
State of happiness gaity
Judicious
If you’re judicious, you’ve got a good head on your shoulders and make good decisions.
Juggernaut
a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way
Juncture
An occasion when a crucial decision must be made
Junket
A junket is a pleasure trip, often funded by someone else. You’ve probably heard of a politician taking a junket to a fancy resort, all paid for using tax payer money.
Junta
HUN ta
When a government is overthrown, the coalition or group that forms and takes control is called a junta. If the military has seized control, as so often happens, then the group is called a military junta.
Jurisprudence
PRU
study and philosophy of law.
Ken
The noun ken means “range of vision or comprehension.” If quantum mechanics is beyond your ken, you don’t understand it, or it is beyond your scope of knowledge.
Knoll
Small hill
Labile
LAY bi uhl
Easily changing
Of personality or radioactive element
Lachrymose
A
Inducing sorrow
Dolorous