List 5 Flashcards
Pallid
Pale
Maladroit
Clumsy; unskilled
Censorious
Disapproving; critical
Unfetter
Set free; unrestrained
Annex
A building that is in addition to an existing building
Censure
Blame
Didactic
Intended to teach; instructive
Extrinsic
Irrelevant; coming from the outside; not part of the essential nature of something
Panacea
Remedy for all ills
Prevaricate
Speak misleadingly and evasively
Scuttle
Sink; deliberately cause to fail
Unfrock
To remove a priest from his position
Diffident
Lacking confidence
Indelible
Cannot be wiped out
Malinger
Feign illness to deliberately avoid work
Proclivity
Tendency towards
Charlatan
Trickster who claims knowledge he doesn’t have
Dike
Dam; embankment
Fanatical
Obsessive; fixated
Sentinel
Guard; sentry
Unwitting
Not deliberate; unconscious
Chary
Wary of; cautious or reluctant to do
Dilatory
Slow; falling behind with one’s work
Fanaticism
Passion; excessive devotion
Prodigal
Wasteful; extravagant
Sequester
Isolate
Antediluvian
Outdated; old-fashioned
Fastidious
Overly particular; finicky; hard to please
Indolence
Laziness
Uproarious
Hilarious
Chicanery
Trickery
Fatuous
Silly; foolish
Profane
Unholy
Upshot
Outcome
Anthropocentrism
Putting man at the center of one’s philosophy
Chimerical
Unreal; imaginary; highly unrealistic
Pariah
Outcast from society
Serrated
Jagged; saw-like
Urbane
Sophisticated; suave