Last Vocabulary List Flashcards
Acquiesce or Acquiescence
To accept, comply, or submit passively or without protest.
Expunge
To strike out, erase, or mark for deletion. To efface completely; wipe out or destroy. To eliminate (as a memory) from one's consciousness.
Genteel or Gentility
Affectedly proper or refined; excessively polite. Maintaining the appearance of superior social status.
Hackneyed
Lacking in freshness or originality; clichéd; trite; commonplace.
Impunity
Exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss. Immunity from unpleasant consequences (of an action)
Incipient
Beginning to come into being or to become apparent; existing in an initial stage.
Irascible or Irascibly
Easily provoked to anger; irritable; hot-tempered
Pecuniary
Pertaining to, consisting of, or measured, given, or exacted in money.
Pertinacious or Pertinaciously
Adhering resolutely to an opinion or purpose; perversely persistent.
Stubbornly unyielding or tenacious.
Slipshod
Careless; shabby; sloppy; untidy; slovenly; disheveled.