Level 6 Flashcards
Legerdemain
Slight of hand
Puerile
Childish
Complicity
Complicit
Transmute
Transform
Abstruse
Not clear
Supercilious
Acting with Superiority over someone else
Dissemble
Conceal or pretend something
Vacuous
Empty space
Capacious
Capable of containing a great deal. Ex: Museums capacious rooms.
Mneumonic
Thinking help
Sonorous
Deep full sound
Admonish
Kindly rebuke
Paradigm
A theoretical framework
Circuitous
Roundabout way
Vindicate
Justify
Bucolic
Rustic
Ostracize
Kick out of native country, cut off
Plethora
Plenty
Proclivity
Likeliness
Commensurate
Equal in size. Ex: Lived a life commensurate with his larger than life reputation.
Incessant
Ceaseless
Sycophant
Butt-kisser
Tangential
Tangent, attached to at a point
Tenable
Holdable
Impalpable
Not easily discerned by the mind
Odious
Much hated
Ubiquitous
It’s Everywhere!
Ruminate
Think on your sins (skyfall), literally chew on
Remuneration
Pay
Peccadillo
Small sin
Supine
Laying on back (opposite of prone)
Banal
Hackneyed, overdone and boring
Heterodox
Unorthodox
Grandiloquent
Grandiose talking/speech
Lugubrious
Mournful, Dismal, morose
Infinitesimal
Very small
Goad
Sharp stick to push cattle
Malinger
To pretend illness (to escape work)
Aver
Claimed with certainty. Average ave averred he wasn’t average.
Cacophony
Muddled harsh noise
Refractory
Hard/impossible to manage
Iconoclast
Someone who disagrees with popular religion
Enervate
Emasculate, take away ones ‘fire’
Levity
Not serious, lightness of mind
Equanimity
Equilibrium, calm under tension
Structure
Structure
Opulent
Richly appointed
Disparage
Bring down
Discursive
Blabbing from one subject to next
Edify
Prosper someone