Level 9 Flashcards
Prolix
extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length; long and wordy.
(of a person) given to speaking or writing at great or tedious length.
His academic paper isn’t prolix in its disquisition on extrabiblical and apocryphal texts, I’d say it’s precise.
Apocryphal
of doubtful authorship or authenticity.
His academic paper isn’t prolix in its disquisition on extrabiblical and apocryphal texts, I’d say it’s precise.
Cupidity
Avarice. Excessive desire for something.
With much temerity the older Vince would demand a higher cut of the profits, making his cupidity evident to his diffident bandmates.
Vernal
of or pertaining to spring: vernal sunshine.
Who could have suspected that such a vernal woman and parsimonious saver, could have such puissant appetite for munificence to charity.
Temerity
reckless boldness; rashness.
With much temerity the older Vince would demand a higher cut of the profits, making his cupidity evident to his diffident bandmates.
Rapprochement
an establishment or reestablishment of harmonious relations: a rapprochement reached between warring factions.
Disquisition
Dissertation; a formal discourse or treatise in which a subject is examined and discussed.
His academic paper isn’t prolix in its disquisition on extrabiblical and apocryphal texts, I’d say it’s precise.
Proscribe
to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; prohibit.
to put outside the protection of the law; outlaw.
to banish or exile.
After all the court cannot proscribe your actions if you present the indefeasibility of title document, no adventitious person has the right to squat in your home, talk less of defenestrate your belongings unto the lawn.
Munificence
the quality of being munificent, or showing unusual generosity: The museum’s collection was greatly increased by the munificence of the family’s gift.
Who could have suspected that such a vernal woman and parsimonious saver, could have such puissant appetite for munificence to charity.
Probity
integrity and uprightness; honesty.
Puissant
Powerful; mighty; potent
Who could have suspected that such a vernal woman and parsimonious saver, could have such puissant appetite for munificence to charity.
Peculate
To steal or take dishonestly; embezzle
The specious offer to peculate untraceable funds proved impossible to pass up, at least not by the venal executive, always ready to play outside the rules.
Diffident
Lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.
Few would guess the ostensibly diffident shopkeeper Fidel, who made sure to keep an air of comity, found it noisome entertaining the parsimonious tourist crowds who’d wander in during the week, and stare at his highly priced, far from quotidian artifacts without buying.
Venal
Willing to sell one’s influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to corruption, even bribery; mercenary
The specious offer to peculate untraceable funds proved impossible to pass up, at least not by the venal executive, always ready to play outside the rules.
Parsimonious
Characterized by or showing parsimony; frugal or stingy
Who could have suspected that such a vernal woman and parsimonious saver, could have such puissant appetite for munificence to charity.
Pusillanimous
Lacking courage or resolution; cowardly; timid
The media proved that efforts to traduce and use calumny against the mayor were a pusillanimous attempt.
Extant
Standing out; protruding; in existence; not destroyed or lost
Meretricious
Alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry
The fugacious reality TV show was low class, meretricious, and deservedly received poor ratings, even before it was excoriated by the democratic left.
Xenophobia
Fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers
The sense of xenophobia was extant, even now as the tourists in dishabille made their way past the sea of faces plastered with disingenuous smiles in the market.
Quotidian
Daily; usual or customary; ordinary.
Few would guess the ostensibly diffident shopkeeper Fidel, who made sure to keep an air of comity, found it noisome entertaining the parsimonious tourist crowds who’d wander in during the week, and stare at his highly priced, far from quotidian artifacts without buying.
Exigency
Urgency; a case that demands prompt action or remedy.
Once it was realized that Joaquin, leader of the flagitious Sinaloa cartel, had ordered the extirpation of the mole, the operation had been compromised, forcing an exigent response by the bureau.
Pulchritude
Physical beauty; comeliness
The pulchritude of the home brought a recrudescence of cheer and calm.
Denouncement
The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot
Did the peripatetic scholar show probity in his denouncement of the saturnalia rites?
Fugacious
Passing away quickly; evanescent
The fugacious reality TV show was low class, meretricious, and deservedly received poor ratings, even before it was excoriated by the democratic left.
Turbid
Thick or dense, as smoke or clouds; confused; muddled; disturbed; not clear or transparent because of stirred-up sentiment or the like
The scurrilous witch character would need to appear to vanish as the turbid set now filled with prop trees and humming smoke machines.
Indefeasible
No defeasible; not to be defeated or made void; that cannot be set aside or overcome
After all the court cannot proscribe your actions if you present the indefeasibility of title document, no adventitious person has the right to squat in your home, talk less of defenestrate your belongings unto the lawn.
Disingenuous
Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating; pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated
The sense of xenophobia was extant, even now as the tourists in dishabille made their way past the sea of faces plastered with disingenuous smiles in the market.
Scurrilous
Given to the use of vulgar, coarse, or abusive language
The scurrilous witch character would need to appear to vanish as the turbid set now filled with prop trees and humming smoke machines.
Recrudescence
A return; a reappearance
The pulchritude of the home brought a recrudescence of cheer and calm.
Defenestrate
An act of throwing someone of something out of a window
After all the court cannot proscribe your actions if you present the indefeasibility of title document, no adventitious person has the right to squat in your home, talk less of defenestrate your belongings unto the lawn.
Dilatory
Causing or intended to cause delay
Picture the plants, desiccated and dying, while the dilatory gardener spent the entire day chatting with neighbors, reading her book, and on her tablet focused on other matters.
Vilify
To speak ill of; defame; slander
Phlegmatic
Calm, self-possessed, or composed, not easily excited to action or display of emotion.
Patients experienced lassitude, as their movements were slow, their speech phlegmatic.
Adventitious
Associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic
After all the court cannot proscribe your actions if you present the indefeasibility of title document, no adventitious person has the right to squat in your home, talk less of defenestrate your belongings unto the lawn.
Desiccated
Dehydrated or powdered
Picture the plants, desiccated and dying, while the dilatory gardener spent the entire day chatting with neighbors, reading her book, and on her tablet focused on other matters.
Comity
Civility; mutual courtesy as in a comity of nations, respect shown between nations.
Few would guess the ostensibly diffident shopkeeper Fidel, who made sure to keep an air of comity, found it noisome entertaining the parsimonious tourist crowds who’d wander in during the week, and stare at his highly priced, far from quotidian artifacts without buying.
Specious
Pleasing to the eye but deceptive; superficially pleasing
The specious offer to peculate untraceable funds proved impossible to pass up, at least not by the venal executive, always ready to play outside the rules.
Noisome
Offensive or disgusting, as an odor
Few would guess the ostensibly diffident shopkeeper Fidel, who made sure to keep an air of comity, found it noisome entertaining the parsimonious tourist crowds who’d wander in during the week, and stare at his highly priced, far from quotidian artifacts without buying.
Calumny
The act of uttering calumnies; slander; defamation; a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something
The media proved that efforts to traduce and use calumny against the mayor were a pusillanimous attempt.
Excoriate
To denounce or berate severely; flay verbally
The fugacious reality TV show was low class, meretricious, and deservedly received poor ratings, even before it was excoriated by the democratic left.
Lassitude
Weariness of body or mind from strain, oppressive climate, etc. A condition of indolent indifference.
Patients experienced lassitude, as their movements were slow, their speech phlegmatic.
Traduce
To speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame
The media proved that efforts to traduce and use calumny against the mayor were a pusillanimous attempt.
Dishabille
The state of being dressed in a careless, dishveled, or disorderly manner.
The sense of xenophobia was extant, even now as the tourists in dishabille made their way past the sea of faces plastered with disingenuous smiles in the market.
Saturnalia
Unrestrained revelry; orgy; the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December in ancient Rome as a time of unrestrained merrymaking
Did the peripatetic scholar show probity in his denouncement of the saturnalia rites?
Extirpate
To remove or destroy totally; to do away with; exterminate; to pull up by or as if by the roots.
Once it was realized that Joaquin, leader of the flagitious Sinaloa cartel, had ordered the extirpation of the mole, the operation had been compromised, forcing an exigent response by the bureau.
Flagitious
Infamous; shamefully wicked, as persons, actions or times.
Once it was realized that Joaquin, leader of the flagitious Sinaloa cartel, had ordered the extirpation of the mole, the operation had been compromised, forcing an exigent response by the bureau.
Peripatetic
Walking or traveling about; itinerant; a person who walks or travels about
Did the peripatetic scholar show probity in his denouncement of the saturnalia rites?
Cachinnate
To laugh loudly or immoderately
Only if you manumit your 9 to 5 workers will you expiate for your capitalist wrongdoings, cachinnated the now drunk supervisor.
Manumit
To release from slavery or servitude
Only if you manumit your 9 to 5 workers will you expiate for your capitalist wrongdoings, cachinnated the now drunk supervisor.
Expiation
The means by which atonement or reparation is made; paying a penance
Only if you manumit your 9 to 5 workers will you expiate for your capitalist wrongdoings, cachinnated the now drunk supervisor.
