list G Flashcards
Adventitious
adj. Luck: associated with something by chance rather than as an integral part; extrinsic
Amulet
n. Luck: a small object worn to ward off evil, harm, or illness or to bring good fortune; protecting charm.
Auspicious
adj. Luck: promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.
Fortuitous
adj. Luck: happen to produce by chance
Kismet
n. Luck: fate; destiny
Optimum
n. Luck: the best or most favorable point, degree, amount. the greatest degree or best result obtained or obtainable under specific conditions
Portentous
adj. Luck: ominously significant or indicative, marvelous amazing; prodigious
Propitiate
v. Luck: to make favorable inclined; appease
Propitious
adj. Luck: presenting favorable conditions; favorable;
Providential
adj. luck: of, pertaining to, or resulting from divine; opportune, fortunate, lucky
Talisman
n. Luck: a stone, ring or other object, amulet or charm
Admonish
v. Nag, to caution, advice or counsel against something. to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner
belabor
v. nag. to explain, worry about. to assail persistently, as with scorn or ridicule
cavil
v. Nag. to raise irritating and trivial objection
enjoin
v. nag. to prescribe with authority or emphasis. to direct or order to do something.
exhort
v. nag. to give urgent advice, recommendations or warnings.
harangue
n. nag. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack.
hector
n. nag. a blustering, domineering person; a bully
martinet
n. nag. a strict disciplinarian. someone who stubbornly adheres to methods or rules.
remonstrate
v. nag. to say or plead in protest, objection or disapproval
reproof
n. nag. the act of reproving.
fetid
adj. Nasty. having an offensive odor, stinking
noisome
adj. Nasty. offensive or disgusting, as an odor. harmful or injurious to heath
noxious
adj. nasty. harmful or injurious to health.
askance
adv. Not a straight line. With suspicion, mistrust, or disapproval. with a side glance, sidewise, obliquely
awry
adv, adj. not a straight line: with a turn or twist to one side
careen
to lean, sway, or tip to one side while in motion
carom
n. not a straight line: any strike and rebound.
circuitous
adj. not a straight line: roundabout, not direct.
circumvent
v. not a straight line: to go around or bypass. to avoid.
gyrate
v. not a straight line: to move in a circle or spiral
meander
v. not a straight line: to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course
oblique
n. adj. not a straight line: neither perpendicular nor parallel to a given line or surface.
serrated
adj. not a straight line: having a notched edge or sawlike teeth.
sidle
n,v. not a straight line: to move sideways or obliquely
sinuous
adj. not a straight line: having many curves, bend, or turns.
undulating
v. not a straight line: to move with a sinuous or wavelike motion
vortex
n. not a straight line: a whirling mass of water. a state of affair likened to a whirlpool for violent activity, irresistible force
bombastic
adj. overblow/wordy: inflated; pretentious
circumlocution
n. overblow/wordy: a roundabout or indirect way of speaking
garrulous
adj. overblow/wordy: talkative
grandiloquent
adj. overblow/wordy: speaking or expressed in a lofty style. bombastic
loquacious
adj. overblow/wordy: wordy, talkative
periphrastic
adj. overblow/wordy: circumlocutory; roundabout.
prolix
adj. overblow/wordy: extended to great, unnecessary, or tedious length
rhetoric
n. overblow/wordy: the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast
Ameliorate
v. pacify/satisfy: to make or become better
assuage
v. pacify/satisfy: to make milder or less severe
defer
v. pacify/satisfy: to put off(action, consideration) to a future time. to exempt temporarily from induction into military service.
mitigate
v. pacify/satisfy: to lessen in force
mollify
v. pacify/satisfy: to soften in feeling or temper; pacify; appease
placate
v. pacify/satisfy: to appease
propitiate
v. pacify/satisfy: to make favorably inclined; appease
satiate
v. pacify/satisfy: to supply with anything to excess
slake
v. pacify/satisfy: to allay by satisfying
soothe
v. pacify/satisfy: to tranquilize or calm. relieve.
