List 7 Flashcards
Harsh or bitter in disposition, speech, or manner
Acrimonious
Different from the usual or standard; hard to identify or classify because of abnormality
Anomalous
Involving hard labor; to test one’s endurance
Arduous
Irrelevant to the present topic; a nonessential part
Extraneous
Unauthentic or fabricated
Factitious
Involving untrue information that harms someone’s reputation
Libelous
Physically or morally harmful
Noxious
Occurring or appearing after one’s death (as a child born after the death of its father, or a writing published after the death of the author)
Posthumous
Lacking in courage; characterized by weakness of spirit
Pusillanimous
Given to complaining; full of complaints
Querulous
Harsh-sounding or loud; rambunctious and rowdy
Raucous
Taken or done stealthily or secretly, unauthorized
Surreptitious
En-
In, into, causative
Sub-
Under
CERN, CRET
To separate, to distinguish