Lists 16-20 Flashcards
Intransigent
Refusing to compromise
Insidious
Seductive
Inure
To cause someone or something to become accustomed to a situation
Invective
Angry verbal attack
Inveterate
Stubbornly established by habit
Juxtaposition
The act of placing two things next to each other for implicit comparison
Largess
The generous giving of gifts
Latent
Hidden, but capable of being exposed
Limpid
Clear, transparent
Maudlin
Weakly sentimental
Mawkish
Characterized by sick sentimentality
Mendacious
Having a lying, false character
Mercurial
Characterized by rapid change
Modicum
Small amount of something
Morass
A wet, swampy bog; figuratively something that traps and confuses
Multifarious
Having a great diversity or variety
Munificence
Generosity in giving
Myriad
Consisting of a very great number
Nadir
The lowest point of something
Nascent
In the process of being born or coming into existence