List Six Flashcards
Finesse
Extreme delicacy or subtlety in action, performance, skill
Fallacy
A deceptive, misleading, or false notion, belief
Genealogical
A record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group
Homologous
Having the same or similar relation;corresponding
Hone
To make more acute or effective; improve; perfect
Humanistic
A person having a strong interest in or concerning for human welfare, values, and dignity
Ideologue
One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist
Imperious
Domineering in a haughty manner; overbearing
Incantation
The chanting or uttering of words that supposedly have magical power; wordiness used to conceal a lack of content
Inconstancy
Changeable; fickle; variable
Incredulous
Indicating or showing disbelief; skeptical
Intrinsic
Belonging to a thing by it’s very nature
Intuition
Direct perception of truth, fact, independent of any reasoning process
Irony
The use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning; an outcome of events contrary to what was, might have been, expected
Laxity
The state or quality of being loose; indifference
