Lesson 9-10 Flashcards
Embroil
To draw into a conflict or fight
Elude
To escape, to get away
Emissary
One sent on a special mission
Emit
To send out
Enmity
Unfriendly feeling, hostility
Ensue
To result from
Entice
To attract, to lure
Entity
An independent being, separate existence
Envisage
To imagine
Epitaph
An inscription on a tombstone
Fallible
Capable of error
Fallow
Inactive, unproductive
Farcical
Absurd, ridiculous
Fatalistic
Believing that all things are inevitable and determined by fate.
Fawn
To try to get approval of an important or powerful person by giving that person praise, special attention
Fealty
Loyalty, faithfulness
Feign
To pretend
Feisty
Aggressive, lively, energetic
Felicity
Happiness
Felonious
Unlawful, like a felony
Dewy
Innocent
Cannibalize
To take parts from something disabled to build or repair another thing or machine
Arbalest
A crossbow from medieval times
Penury
An extreme lack of money