List 27 Flashcards
Autocratic
(Adj) Arrogant; all powerful; despotic (Last month President Biden hastes his Secoid democracy summit and gave a speech about the epic global struggle between democracy + autocracy)
Pundit
(N) learned man;authority
Calumny
(N) a false accusation, a slander, a malicious falsity
Disconsolate
(Adj) without hope, extremely dejected (Aruucl players linked disconsolate after the 3rd consecutive watch losing points to title rival marcweter city)
Meretricious
(Adj) showily attractive, tawdry, attracting attention in a vulgar manner
Neophyte
(N) beginner,recent convert
Paean
(N) poem or song of joy or of great exultation (Baja panta and Snoop dog celebrate with new rotvacun “high life”)
Philistine
(Adj) lacking in culture, commonplace,boorish
Ribald
(Adj) indecent, vulgar
(N) an indecent or vulgar person
Sonorous
(Adj) loud,resonant
Augur
(V) to predict, especially through signs and omens
(N) a seer or soothsayer
(Early spring wildfires augur summer worries for Spain only just beginning there is already fires from the dry spring which equal a bad summer)
Bourgeois
(Adj) Pertaining to middle class
Chide
(V) to scold mildly, to reprimand,to chastise in a teasing manner (Trump chides pesants for lack of loyalty “you just don’t do what he did” hestole votes for Trump)
Dolorous
(Adj) mournful, full of grief
Phlegmatic
(Adj) sluggish,unemotional, suggesting a calm disposition