Lessons 5 - 8 Flashcards
5: Audacious
- willing to take risks; daring
- showing disrespect or a lack of courtesy.
5: confiscate
to seize, by force if necessary; to take possession of.
5: conscientious
- thorough; careful.
- honest; principled.
5: depict
to give a picture of; to describe.
5: embark
- to go on board a ship or airplane at the start of a voyage.
- to start out; to begin.
5: inkling
a slight suspicion; a vague idea.
5: lackadaisical
showing little spirit or enthusiasm.
5: mutiny
- deliberate refusal to obey orders given by those in command, especially by sailors.
- to rebel openly against a commander.
5: pilfer
to steal repeatedly small amounts or things that are of little value.
5: profusion
a plentiful supply; a great or generous amount. given or occurring in generous amounts; abundant.
5: prudent
very careful; showing judgment and wisdom.
5: rankle
to cause continuing anger or irritation.
5: rebuke
- to criticize strongly; to reprimand.
- a sharp criticism.
5: serene
- calm and untroubled; peaceful.
- a calm and untroubled state.
5: slovenly
untidy; carelessly done.
6: anarchy
- total absence of government.
- lack of order; total confusion.
6: apprehend
- to seize; to arrest.
- to grasp the meaning of; to understand.
6: arraign
to bring before a court to face charges.
6: assimilate
- to absorb into a population.
- to take in a part and absorb into the whole. (learn)
6: bizarre
strikingly out of the ordinary; peculiar.
6: calamity
an event that causes great suffering and harm; a disaster.
6: conspire
- to plan together secretly to do something wrong or illegal.
- to join or act together.
6: dissension
a difference of opinion; -disagreement.
6: elapse
to pass or slip by (used with time).
6: imminent
about to happen; likely to occur in the very near future.
6: interrogate
to ask questions of, especially in a thorough or formal manner.
6: lionize
to treat as a celebrity.
6: meticulous
extremely careful; attentive to small details.
6: shackle
- a ring or band put around the arm or leg to prevent free movement.
- something that prevents free action.
6: swelter
- to suffer from or to be overcome by great heat.
- very hot and humid; uncomfortable because of extremely hot weather.
7: colleague
an associate or coworker of similar status
7: claustrophobia
an abnormal fear of narrow, enclosed spaces.
7: condescend
- to lower oneself to a position one considers inferior.
- to behave in an offensively superior manner.
7: contingent
- conditional; depending on something else.
- likely, but not certain to happen; possible.
7: daunt
to discourage or intimidate.
7: deluge
- a downpour of rain; a flood.
- a flood of anything.
7: dispel
to clear away; to remove or get rid of, as if by scattering.
7: dub
to give a title, nickname, or description to.
7: fanfare
- a sounding of trumpets or other brass instruments.
7: fledgling
- a young bird just learning how to fly.
- a young and inexperienced perdson.
7: inane
empty; shallow or silly.
7: mettle
courage to bear up under difficult circumstances; spirit.
7: negligible
small and unimportant, not worth noticing.
7: protract
to draw out or lengthen (in time).
7: replica
a copy or reproduction, especially one on a smaller scale than the original.