List 6B Flashcards
Juxtaposition
The placing of two things side by side
Jaded
Cynical; tired; bored
Labyrinth
Maze
Lampoon
To ridicule
Levity
Humor
Lilting
Pleasantly rising and falling
Loquacious
Talkative
Maelstrom
- Giant whirlpool
2. Violent storm
Malediction
A curse
Manifest
Obvious
To demonstrate
Martyr
One who died or suffers for a cause or a person
Meander
To wander about without direction or purpose
Mirth
Happiness
Momentous
Very important
Morbidity
Unhealthiness
Mundane
Common; boring; ordinary
Musty
Stale - smelling
Nebulous
Vague; unclear
Nettle
To annoy
Nocturnal
Active at night
Oaf
A big clumsy stupid person
Obsequious
asskissing
Officious
Offering unwanted help or advice
Opulence
Abundance: wealth
Ordination
A ceremony for initiation of a priest
Outlandishness
Unconventional; absurd
Pacifist
A person strongly opposed to war
Paltry
Unimportant
Papyrus
Paper made from the papyrus plant
Parochial
- Narrow minded
2. Relating to a church parish
Pathogenic
Capable of causing disease
Peccadillo
Small crime
Penitent
Sorry
Perdition
Hell; damnation
Perjure
To lie under oath
Peruse
To read carefully
Phoenix
Bird that symbolizes immortality
Pithy
Short and to the point
Platitude
Cliche
Plight
Bad situation
Polemical
Deliberately controversial
Posterity
Future generation
Prattle
Babble
Précis
Summary
Prestidigitation
Magic tricks
Prodigious
Very big
Proliferation
Rapid growth in numbers
Propriety
Proper behavior
Protocol
Rules for proper behavior
Provisional
Temporary
Pulverize
To crush
Purse
To bring together
Quack
A dishonest person
Quarantine
strict isolation To prevent the spreAd of a disease
Quiescence
Stillness