List 1 Flashcards
Inchoate
(adj.) Incipient, still developing or incomplete.
(adj.) Imperfectly formed, incoherent or lacking order
Our mastery of GRE is still pretty inchoate.
The ideas I have for my thesis are quite inchoate.
Obdurate
(adj. ) Unyielding to persuasion; Resistant to appeals or softening influences.
(adj. ) Persistent in wrongdoing or impenitent; hardened against emotions.
Amalgamate
(v) To mix, merge, or combine into a whole.
My mother likes to amalgamate all sorts of different friends in her dinners.
Effrontery
(n) Insolence, boldness, or presumption.
Wearing shorts at Católica seems to be such an effrontery!
Rarefy
(n) To make or become thin, less compact, or less dense
(v) To purify, refine, or make more spiritual
Sometimes I feel the need to rarefy my thinking.
You must rarefy that sauce before serving it!
Precipitate
(v) To throw or fall down headlong
(v) To bring about or cause to happen, especially abruptly or prematurely
(v) To cause (a substance) to separate from a solution; to condense or cause to condense and fall from the sky as snow, rain, etc.
(adj.) Speeding headlong, rapidly, or dangerously; proceeding with indue haste and without necessary forethought
(adj.) Occurring abruptly or unexpectedly
(adj.) Steep or rushing steeply downward
When I accepted the proposal to teach Foundations of Macroeconomics, I was virtually unaware I was precipitating into a cliff.
DIsabuse
(v) To free someone from a misconception or deception.
I am afraid that my result on GRE will disabuse me.
Aver
(v) To assert or affirm positively
(v) To formally assert or prove in pleading a case or cause
O.J.’s laywer averred that he had not killed his wife.
Bolster
(v) To support, uphold, hearten, or boost
Our result on the GRE will have been bolstered by many hours of study.
Undermine
(v) To weaken by washing away the support or foundation underneath
(v) To weaken, injure, or ruin by degrees or a little at the time; to sap
(v) To subvert secretly or insidiously
(adj.) To dig a mine or tunnel underneath
Having less than 170 may undermine years of hard work.
Deliberate
(v) To think carefully or consider
(adj.) 1. Carefully considered 2. Slowly, unhurriedly decided 3. Done intentionally or with awareness of the consequences
Mr. Trump has done a deliberate move to separate children from their parents.
Assuage
(v) To make less intense or severe; to ease
(v) To satisfy, appease, or quench
(v) To pacify, sooth, or quiet
Mr. Draghi has assuaged concerns that the ECB would cut back on asset purchases.
Laconic
(adj.) Concise, terse, or extremely sparing with words.
Sometimes, Daniel, you are so laconic that I feel you are angry with me
Lucid
(adj.) Intelligible or readily understandable; Sane or rational
(adj.) Translucent or clear; bright or luminous
I do not think the Portuguese people is very lucid about what is going on with the economy
Enervate
(v) To weaken or sap the strength, vigor, or vitality of
All this heat enervates me… I cannot even read one sentence without becoming tired.
Morose
(adj.) Sullen, gloomy, or melancholy
I know you are tired of seeing me morose.
Eulogy
(n) A praising speech or tribute, especially honoring someone who has died
(n) High praise
He did a very beautiful eulogy to his deceased son.
Placate
(v) To soothe the anger of, mollify, or appease
The teachers were placated by the government with the new raise.
