Level 8 Flashcards
Alacrity
cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
liveliness; briskness.
Obviate
to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
Emolument
profit, salary, or fees from office or employment; compensation for services: Tips are an emolument in addition to wages.
Intransigent
One who refuses to agree or compromise/
Mordant
Sharply caustic or sarcastic.
Sagacious
having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd: a sagacious lawyer.
Acerbic
Sour or astringent taste, harsh
Succor
Person/thing that gives aid, help, relief
Importune
To annoy by making urgent or persistent solicitations.
to make improper advances toward another person.
Palliate
to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate.
Wizened
withered; shriveled: a wizened old man; wizened features.
Captious
Apt to find trivial fault. Hard to please.
Emendation
Act if emending. Emend- to edit or change (a text). to free from faults or errors; correct.
Truculent
fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
Expurgate
to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms’ fairy tales.
to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.
Reprobate
a depraved, unprincipled, or wicked person: a drunken reprobate.
a person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation.
Spurious
Not genuine, authentic. Illegitimate birth.
Volition
Own will. The power or faculty of choosing; the will.
Interpolate
to alter or corrupt (as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter. to insert (words) into a text or into a conversation
Adduce
to offer as example, reason, or proof in discussion or analysis
Miscreant
infidel, heretic. one who behaves criminally or viciously
Quixotic
foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; especially : marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action
Suppurate
To form or discharge pus
Martinet
Strict disciplinarian, rigid adherence to rules.
Compunction
anxiety arising from awareness of guilt. distress of mind over an anticipated action or result.
Mercurial
having qualities of eloquence, ingenuity, or thievishness attributed to the god Mercury or to the influence of the planet Mercury
characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood.
Nostrum
a medicine sold with false or exaggerated claims and with no demonstrable value; quack medicine. Panacea. a medicine made by the person who recommends it.
Propitiate
to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of : appease, pacify
Efficacy
capacity for producing a desired result or effect; effectiveness: a remedy of great efficacy.
Tantamount
equivalent, as in value, force, effect, or signification: His angry speech was tantamount to a declaration of war.
Pariah
an outcast. any person or animal that is generally despised or avoided.
Germane
Closely related, relevant. Keep your opinions germane to the discussion.
Licentious
Unrestrained sexually, by law, morals.
Superannuated
retired because of age or infirmity.
too old for use, work, service, or a position.
antiquated or obsolete: superannuated ideas.
Egregious
extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar.
Vapid
Having lost life. Dull. It became a very vapid party.
Crotchet
an odd fancy or whimsical notion.
a small hook.
Epigraph
an inscription, especially on a building, statue, or the like.
Expatiate
to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion: to expatiate upon a theme.
Sinecure
an office or position requiring little or no work, especially one yielding profitable returns.
Predilection
a tendency to think favorably of something in particular; partiality; preference: a predilection for Bach.
Imbroglio
a misunderstanding, disagreement, etc., of a complicated or bitter nature, as between persons or nations.
an intricate and perplexing state of affairs; a complicated or difficult situation.
Ineffable
incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
Stolid
adjective. not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
Offal
Rubbish food. the parts of a butchered animal that are considered inedible by human beings; carrion.
Lissome
Flexible, agile, nimble of body
Mellifluous
sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
Surfeit
excess; an excessive amount: a surfeit of speechmaking.
Blandishment
something, as an action or speech, that tends to flatter, coax, entice, etc.
Variegated
Varied
