Level 4 Flashcards
Sophistry
Sophisticated trickery? Deliberate use of a false fallacious but subtle and plausible argument. Your adherence to the Santa culture is pure sophistry meant to trick children. Len was using sophistry, if he wasn’t just plain lying.
Conjecture
Based on guesswork - a statement, opinion, or conclusion
Surreptitious spy mission
Done by clandestine or stealthy means
Pensive Charlie Brown
Thoughtful, often in a sad way
Squalid
Foul, unclean, wretched. Morally repulsive, dirty from poverty/lack of care
- Provident
Frugal for future. Making provisions for future. A provisionary (fake word) company is called a provident organization. The provident scheme aims to better us in the future. Use the word to describe any noun as frugal or looking to make provisions in the future.
- Impute
Credit, attribute, ascribe; sometimes wrongfully
- Astute Sherlock
Paying attention to the details. Showing ability to understand things clearly. A keen discernment, clever, cunning.
Enigma
Something hard to understand or explain.
Giving Credence
Giving Weight
Venerate your god
To give credence (ex- the atheist no longer venerated the images of the saints and the virgin). To show deep respect, or deference for. Worship, solicit goodwill.
Garrulous Wesley
Excessively talkative
Trenchant
Anything that is sharply forcefully clear such as a statement, an argument or a demand. Forceful, Keen, cutting, caustic, clearly defined. There are trenchant distinctions between good and bad. Her trenchant speech was weakened by the scientific proof that aided the other party.
Autonomous society
Self-governed, subject to own laws
Vegetables are no Panacea
Cure-all
Ephemeral life of a Mayfly
lasting a short time
Onerous
Burdensome obligation, troublesome
Laity
Members of Religious organizations not part of the clergy. Layman, lay nun.
Pungent
Sharply affecting taste, smell.
Prosaic
Prose- regular common writing or spoken language that is NOT poetry. Something boring, dull. Being at work can be a prosaic task. His prosaic writing put even the babysitter to sleep. Straightforward matter-of-fact dull Prose. Lacking poetic beauty/imagination
Charlatan
Con-man. Someone who pretends to some skill or be something he doesn’t. A Fraud, swindler.
Perfunctory
Done routinely with indifference, little interest, without solicitude or concern. After his perfunctory greeting to the class he started his lecture on biomedical economics. She gave him a perfunctory kiss goodnight and went back to sleep.
Morass
Swamp (area of low-lying soggy ground), something like a difficult troublesome social situation that hinders, overwhelms, engulfs. ‘Don’t get lost in the morass of youth culture of naïveté, criminality and decline’ the father warned the son.
Prolific
Very productive
