list E Flashcards
chortle
v. Funny: to chuckle gleefully
droll
n,v,adj. Funny: amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous
facetious
adj. Funny: not meant to be taken seriously or literally. Amusing, humorous.
flippant
adj. Funny: frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness
gibe
v. Funny: to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer
jocular
adj. Funny: given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking.
levity
n. lightness of mind, character, or behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness
ludicrous
adj. Funny: causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable
raillery
n. Funny: good-humored ridicule; banter.
abatement
n. Gaps/opening. the act or state of abating or the state of being abated; reduction; decrease; alleviation; mitigation.
aperture
n. opening/gaps: an opening, as a hole
fissure
n. opening/gaps: a narrow opening produced by cleavage or separation of parts.
hiatus
n. opening/gaps: a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action. a missing part.
interregnum
n. opening/gaps: an interval of time between the close of a sovereign’s reign and the accession of his or her normal or legitimate successor. any period of freedom from the usual authority
interstice
n. opening/gaps: an intervening space. a small, narrow space, interval between things or parts.
lull
v. opening/gaps: to put to sleep or rest by soothing means.
orifice
n. opening/gaps: an opening or aperture, as of a tube or pipe
respite
n. opening/gaps: a delay or cessation for a time, an interval of relief
rift
n. opening/gaps: an opening made by splitting, cleaving.
altruistic
adj. generous/kind
beneficent
adj. generous/kind: doing good or causing good to be done
clement
adj. generous/kind: mild or merciful in disposition or character.
largess
n. generous/kind. generous bestowal of gift.
magnanimous
adj. generous/kind: generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness
munificent
adj. generous/kind: extremely liberal in giving
unstinting
v. generous/kind
avaricious
adj. Greedy
covetous
adj. Greedy: inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth
mercenary
n, adj. Greedy: working or acting merely for money or other reward
miserly
adj. greedy: penurious, stingy
penurious
adj. greedy: extremely stingy; parsimonious
rapacious
adj. greedy: to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed
venal
adj. Greedy: willing to sell one’s influence, especially in return for a bribe; open to bribery;
asperity
n. hard-hearted: harshness or sharpness of tone.
baleful
adj. hardhearted: full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious
dour
adj. hardhearted: sullen; gloomy; severe; stern
malevolent
adj. hardhearted: wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will
mordant
adj. hardhearted: sharply caustic or sarcastic
sardonic
adj. hardhearted: characterized by bitter or scornful derision
scathing
adj. hardhearted: bitterly severe, as a remark
truculent
adj. hardhearted: fierce; cruel; savagely brutal
vitriolic
adj. hardhearted: very caustic, scathing
vituperation
n. hardhearted: verbal abuse or castigation; violent denunciation
baleful
adj. harmful
baneful
adj. harmful
deleterious
adj. harmful: injurious to health
inimical
adj. harmful: adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable;; unfriendly; hostile
injurious
adj. harmful.
insidious
adj. harmful: intended to entrap or beguile
minatory
adj. harmful: threatening.
perfidious
adj. harmful: deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful
pernicious
adj. harmful: causing insidious harm or ruin.
