Lesson 12 Flashcards
Arboreal (adj)
relating to or resembling a tree or trees
Amiable (adj)
friendly; agreeable; good-natured
Belligerent (adj)
eager to fight; hostile or aggressive
Benign (adj)
Kind and gentle
Brevity (n)
briefness or conciseness in speech or writing
Byzantine (adj)
extremely complicated
Cantankerous (adj)
ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable
Circumlocution (n)
speaking in circles; roundabout speech
Colloquial (adj)
pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational
Concise (adj)
using few words in speaking or writing
Contentious (adj)
quarrelsome
Deleterious (adj)
having a harmful effect
Diffuse (adj)
spread out; wordy
Digress (v)
to wander off from the subject or topic spoken about
Eloquence (n)
artful ease with speaking; masterful speech
Exacerbate (v)
to make worse; aggravate
Flippant (adj)
disrespectfully humorous or casual; carefree
Garrulous (adj)
talkative; loquacious
Insolent (adj)
boldly disrespectful in speech or behavior
Invocation (n)
a call (usually upon a higher power) for assistance or support
Laconic (adj)
using few words in speech
Nefarious (adj)
evil; vicious
Parody (n)
a work that mocks or imitates the style of another literary work
Pernicious (adj)
extremely harmful; deadly
