Lesson 1 Flashcards
Excruciating
Extreme pain, agony, or intense discomfort
Vague
Unclear, imprice, or lacking details or clarity
Enormous
Extremely large
Tidy
Neat, Well-organized
Daunting
Intimidating, challenging, overwhelming
Laborious
Requires a lot of effort, hard work
Bizarre
Very strange, unusual
He told us a bizarre story about a talking cat that solved crimes.
The magician performed a series of bizarre tricks that defied explanation.
I had a bizarre dream last night where I was floating in the air and talking to animals.
Feasible
Possible, practical, achievable
Reluctant
Hesitation, unwillingness
Cognizant
Having knowledge or awareness
Ex: When you love someone, you should always be cognizant of how your words affect them.
Diffident
Shy, quiet, modest
Ex: The most diffident student surprised her classmates by getting the highest grades.
Demure
Quiet, modest, reserved
Ex: No one expected the demure teen to be such an amazing singer.
Verb
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
Noun
A noun is a word that refers to a thing, person, animal, a place, quality, an idea or an action.
Pronoun
A pronoun (I, me, he, she, herself, you, it, that, they, each, few, many, who, whoever, whose, someone, everybody, etc.) is a word that takes the place of a noun.