Lesson 10 Flashcards
torpid
adj.
slow
Old people are torpid, they do thing slowly.
puerile
adj.
ack of maturity
He is a puerile person, he always does child’s things.
variegated
adj.
having a variety of colors
Rainbow is variegated.
vex
v.
cause annoyance in
Homeworks let students vex.
effulgent
adj.
radient
Diamonds are effulgent.
desiccated
adj.
dry
Hydropenic country’s ground is desiccated.
deride
v.
ridicule
He always deride other people, he aways laugh other people’s defect.
fallacious
adj.
deceitful
He said his homeworks were eaten by his dog, so he doesn’t do his homworks, this reason is fallacious.
fatuous
adj.
devoid of intelligence
He always do stupid things, he is a fatuous person.
iconoclast
n.
a destroyer of traditional institutions
The bad students is iconoclast, they destroy school rules.
ingenuous
adj.
artless
She is ingenuous, she never tell lies, so people all like her.
languid
adj.
weak
Patients in the hospital are languid.
anathema
n.
curse
His anathema to his classmate work it out, his classmate have a bad luck today.
dither
v.
be undecided
The pen shop have many kind of pen, she all like, so she dither to buy which pen.
querulous
adj.
whiny
Small things can make him angry, he is a querulous person.
proscribe
v.
forbid
Teachers proscribe students to copy other’s work, because it can’t help you study.
taciturn
adj.
uncommunicative
He is a taciturn person, he talk very few.
recalcitrant
adj.
resistant
He is a recalcitrant person, he never listen to other people’s advises and never amend his defect.
transient
adj.
very short time
Our life is transient, so we need to cherish every day.
turgid
adj.
tumid
He is a turgid person, he always tell people he is a rich person.
