Level 10 Flashcards
Jejune
Dull. Insipid. Without interest or significance. Lacking knowledge. Juvenile. The grad student continued to make, seemingly, jejune remarks about life and art, to her audience of bored and increasingly annoyed undergraduate friends.
His paucity of enthusiasm, and absence of his usual sanguine expression, indicated his displeasure over having to spend yet another jejune weekend in deep lucubration.
Paucity
Smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness. A country with a paucity of resources.
His paucity of enthusiasm, and absence of his usual sanguine expression, indicated his displeasure over having to spend yet another jejune weekend in deep lucubration.
Minatory
Menacing; threatening. Abella’s bosses minatory emails, referencing her pregnancy leave, were yet more proof of a continued abuse of authority.
To be risible in good company, a non-minatory demeanor – so as to be approachable, and having a mind free of hebetude all make for a great weeknight deipnosophist.
Putative
Commonly regarded as such; reputed; supposed
Make sure he doesn’t divagate from the accusation, you have apodictic evidence that their executive team had hebdomadal meetings trying to bury, the case of causing putative iatrogenic harm to 3 insured patients.
Lucubration
Laborious work, study, thought, especially at night. Ex: Just before finals the graduate students were always mired in deep lucubration.
His paucity of enthusiasm, and absence of his usual sanguine expression, indicated his displeasure over having to spend yet another jejune weekend in deep lucubration.
Aleatory
Unpredictable; of luck or chance; (in Law) depending on a contingent event: Ex: an aleatory contract; (in Music) employing the element of chance in the choice of tones, rhythms, dynamics, etc.
George Carlin’s brand of aleatory comedy was often a farrago of polite but pointed badinage and non-venial diatribe or ranting.
Farrago
A confused mixture; hodgepodge; medley
George Carlin’s brand of aleatory comedy was often a farrago of polite but pointed badinage and non-venial diatribe or ranting.
Cynosure
something that attracts attention by its brilliance, and can be used as a guide for direction, like the little dipper or Ursa Minor constellation.
Jane execrated, having lain her eyes on the fast scurrying twin hispid cotton rats, now undoubtedly the cynosure of the mortified guests.
Badinage
banter, playful repartee (back and forth with jestful quick responses).
George Carlin’s brand of aleatory comedy was often a farrago of polite but pointed badinage and non-venial diatribe or ranting.
Hieratic
Also hieratical of or relating to priests or priesthood; highly restrained or severe in emotional import; noting or pertaining to a form of ancient Egyptian writing consisting of abridged forms of hieroglyphics, used by the priests in their records.
The culture of the tribe was to ritually scarify the bodies of the performers with ceremonial hieratic styled shapes, and the dance would serve to lionize both their ancestors and their new king.
Saturnine
Sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn
Ryu was a man of longanimity, with a saturnine disposition, and a penchant for being a noctivagant, rarely resting in a place.
Execrate
To detest, to curse, to declare something to be evil or detestable. Surely rape is execrated by modern civil society.
Jane execrated, having lain her eyes on the fast scurrying twin hispid cotton rats, now undoubtedly the cynosure of the mortified guests.
Vitiate
To impair the quality of, spoil, make faulty. A mistake of fact in some circumstances could vitiate the contract. A mind vitiate by prejudice.
The contretemps episode in the diner, vitiated, no eviscerated the already frangible marriage between the mayor and his staff.
Venial
Her brother arriving to the party having forgotten to buy a gift was a venial offence.
George Carlin’s brand of aleatory comedy was often a farrago of polite but pointed badinage and non-venial diatribe or ranting.
Risible
Causing or capable of causing laughter; laughable; having a disposition or readiness to laugh. Ex: Diesel is an imposing screen presence even when growling risible dialog.
To be risible in good company, a non-minatory demeanor – so as to be approachable, and having a mind free of hebetude all make for a great weeknight deipnosophist.
Lionize
To treat (a person) as a celebrity; to pursue celebrities; British: to visit or exhibit the objects of interest of (a place)
The culture of the tribe was to ritually scarify the bodies of the performers with ceremonial hieratic styled shapes, and the dance would serve to lionize both their ancestors and their new king.
Contretemps
ill-timed or inopportune occurrence; an embarrassing mischance. Ex: His contretemps experience came from seeing his ex-wife at a speed dating meetup. The anxious and depressed poet viewed every act as a life-ending contretemps.
The contretemps episode in the diner, vitiated, no eviscerated the already frangible marriage between the mayor and his staff.
Rodomontade
Vainglorious boasting or bragging; pretentious. Ex: Students from those prep schools are notorious for their endless rodomontade. He viewed this particular fine arts crowd as rodomontade and elitist.
Pettifogger Jonathan, known for his fulminating temper and rodomontade rambles, preoccupied his free time, not with books of law, but with mystical and heliolatry literature.
Sanguine
Cheerful, optimistic, hopeful. Ex: The usually risible politician shed his sanguine expression the minute he realized he had lost the election.
His paucity of enthusiasm, and absence of his usual sanguine expression, indicated his displeasure over having to spend yet another jejune weekend in deep lucubration.
