list D Flashcards
aberrant
adj. Eccentric/Dissimilar. Departing from the right, normal, or usual course. Deviating from the ordinary.
anachronism
n. Eccentric/Dissimilar: an error in chronology in which a person, object, is assigned a date or period other than the correct one.
anomalous
adj. Eccentric/Dissimilar: deviating from or inconsistent with the common order, form or rule. irregular.
discrete
adj. Eccentric/Dissimilar: apart or detached from other; separate; distinct
eclectic
adj. Eccentric/Dissimilar: selecting or choosing from various source. Not following any one system.
esoteric
adj. Eccentric/Dissimilar: understand by a few.
iconoclast
n. eccentric/dissimilar: a person who attacks cherished belief. a breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
abash
v. Embarrass: to destroy the self-confidence, pose, make ashamed
chagrin
n. Embarrass: a feeling of vexation, marked by disappointment or humiliation
compunction
n. Embarrass: a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain.
contrition
n. Embarrass: regret - sincere penitence or remorse
diffidence
n. Embarrass: lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy
expiate
v. Embarrass: to atone for; make amends or reparation for. redeem
foible
n. Embarrass: a minor weakness or failing of character
gaucherie
n. Embarrass: lack of social grace, sensitivity
rue
v. Embarrass: to feel sorrow over; repent of; regret bitterly
Equitable
adj. Equal: fairness, just and right
equity
n. Equal
tantamount
adj. Equal: equivalent, as in value
apocryphal
adj. Falsehood: of doubtful authorship. False, spurious
canard
n. Falsehood: a false or baseless, usually derogatory story, report or rumor
chicanery
n. Falsehood: trickery or deception
dissemble
v. Falsehood: to give a false or misleading appearance to
duplicity
n. falsehood: deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same manner.
equivocate
v. Falsehood: to use ambiguous or unclear expression.
erroneous
adj. Falsehood: containing error; mistaken
ersatz
adj. Falsehood: serving as substitute; synthetic; artificial
fallacious
adj. falsehood
feigned
adj. falsehood: pretended: sham: assumed; fictitious; disguised
guile
n. Falsehood. insidious cunning in attaining a goal.
mendacious/mendacity
adj,n. untruthfulness; tendency to lie
perfidy
n. falsehood: deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness
prevaricate
v. falsehood: to speak falsely or misleadingly
specious
adj. Falsehood: apparently good or right though lacking real merit
spurious
adj. Falsehood: not genuine, authentic or true. not from the claimed. pretended
conjugal
adj. Family: pertaining to the relation of husband and wife
consanguine
adj. Family: having the same ancestry or descent related by blood.
distaff
n. Family: mother’s side
endogamous
n. Family: marriage within a specific tribe
filial
adj. Family: noting or having the relation of a child to a parent
fratricide
n. a person who kills his or her brother
progenitor
n. family: a biologically related ancestor
scion
n. family: a descendant
ardor/ardent
n/adj, favoring/not impartial: great warmth of feeling; fervor; passion. intense devotion, eagerness or enthusiasm, zeal
doctrinaire
n. favoring/not impartial: a person who tries to apply some doctrine or theory without sufficient regard for practical consideration. an impractical theorist
fervid
adj. favoring/not impartial: heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm.
partisan
n. an adherent or supporter of a person or group.
tendentious
adj. favoring/not impoartial: having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose
zealot
n. favoring: fanatic.
absolve
v. Forgive: to free from guilt or blame or their consequences.
acquit
v. Forgive: to relieve from a charge of fault or crime.
exculpate
v. Forgive: to clear from a charge of guilt or fault
exonerate
v. Forgive: to clear, as of an accusation.
expiate
v. Forgive: to atone for; make amends or reparation for
palliate
v. Forgive: to relieve or lesson without curing, mitigate; alleviate
redress
v. Forgive: relief from wrong or inury, to set right, remedy or repair
vindicate
v. Forgive: to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion.
