MEDIUM Flashcards
To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit.
FOIST
A small vessel for liquids.
VIAL
Free from the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea.
Direct or not roundabout in expression.
STRAIGHTFORWARD
An anteroom or lobby especially of a theater, library, or other public building.
FOYER
A developmental disorder that typically appears by age 3 and that is variable in expression by recognized by impairment of the ability to form social relationships.
AUTISM
In a brief and concise manner.
TERSELY
To cry with a sharp shrill prolonged sound.
SQUEAL
At an indefinite time in the future - used chiefly in the Southwest.
MANANA
Betrayal of trust.
TREACHERY
Easily combustible material of a convenient
KINDLING
Company, band, group.
COHORT
The action of transporting.
Transportation.
CONVEYANCE
A deep purplish red.
MAGENTA
Legal expulsion from a country.
BANISHMENT
Something deviating from a general rule, method, or analogy.
Something irregular or abnormal.
ANOMALY
A great sea wave produced by submarine earth movement or volcanic eruption.
A tidal wave.
TSUNAMI
Inspiring horror or repulsion.
Fearful, grisly, hideous.
GRUESOME
A person who is very knowledgeable about the science of the application of knowledge to practical purposes.
TECHIE
Imitating the form of without understanding the sense or meaning involved.
PARROTING
A succession of syllables, words, or sentences in one unvaried key or pitch.
MONOTONE
Confusion, turmoil, uproar.
HURLY-BURLY
Situated away from the wind.
Downwind.
LEEWARD
A slight fit of anger.
An outburst of temper or spite.
A petty quarrel.
TIFF
In a manner characterized by exuberance, impulsiveness, or thoughtlessness.
GIDDILY
To be enough.
To met or satisfy a need.
SUFFICE
In a manner characterized by profusion or excess.
LAVISHLY
Deficient in producing vegetation.
Bare or desolate.
BARREN
The application of measures to makes environmental conditions favorable to health.
SANITATION
Tubular portions of the digestive tract that in the vertebrate lie posterior to the stomach from which they are separated by the pyloric valve.
INTESTINES
To be guilty of (a crime, an offense, etc.).
To commit.
PERPETRATE
Of or relating to breathing.
RESPIRATORY
Those that are sorrowful over a death.
MOURNERS
Becomes twisted, contorted, or wested about in or as if in pain or struggling.
WRITHES
To get rid of.
ELIMINATE
Any of various birds of prey such as a turkey vulture or a condor.
BUZZARD
A large disastrous burning.
A conflagration.
INFERNO
An animal, plant, or other object serving as the emblem of a family or clan and often regarded as a reminder of its ancestry.
TOTEM
A light rowboat.
SKIFF
One qualified and duly authorized to treat diseases of animals.
VETERINARIAN
Testimony taken down in writing under oath or affirmation.
DEPOSITION
Used as a temporary or permanent dwelling place, abode, or habitation to which one intends to return.
RESIDENTIAL
A bluish silver-white metallic element that is the most plentiful metal in Earth’s crust.
ALUMINUM
Held motionless by or as if by piercing especially with an absorbing emotion or interest.
TRANSFIXED
Having or showing a lively aggressiveness.
Spunky.
FEISTY
The aura or glory, veneration, prestige, or sentiment surrounding an idealized person or thing.
HALO
A mineral consisting of soft black, lustrous carbon that conducts electricity and is used in pencils, crucibles, electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in atomic-energy plants - called also “Black lead.”
GRAPHITE
A lover of books especially for beautiful or rare qualities of format.
A book collector.
BIBLIOPHILE
An inconsiderable number or amount especially of similar but distinct individuals or parts.
Piecemeal collection.
SMATTERING
Saturated thoroughly.
Imbued.
STEEPED
An unrestrained and usually excessive indulgence in or outburst of any activity.
Splurge, rampage.
SPREE
Trips made in order to deliver a message or purchase or attend to something.
ERRANDS
Moved, swung, or beat as though wielding an instrument for threshing grain from the ear by hand.
FLAILED
Of or relating to mode of expression especially in the use of language.
STYLISTIC
A tablelike construction used in the Christian church in celebrating the Eucharist.
Communion table.
ALTAR
A pale blue to light greenish blue.
AQUAMARINE
A large piece for orchestra usually in three or four contrasting movements.
SYMPHONY
A condition of suffering, destitution, of affliction often implying previous prosperity or well-being.
ADVERSITY
To criticize sharply.
To reprimand.
REBUKE
An inscribed metal tablet that identifies a site or commemorates an individual or event.
PLAQUE
One of a building’s vertical supporting structures.
COLUMN
The art or skill of a person practiced at hitting a target especially with firearms.
MARKSMANSHIP
A price demanded for a thing or service in excess of the usual or normal amount.
SURCHARGE
Recently made or of the most up-to-date style.
NEWFANGLED
An optical phenomenon observed on still days over deserts or hot pavements that has the mirrorlike appearance of a quiet pool of water.
MIRAGE
A group of people delegated to consider, investigate, or act on and usually to report on some matter or business.
COMMITTEE
Of or relating to the past.
BYGONE
Completion, fulfillment
FRUITION
Loss of memory sometimes including the memory of personal identity.
AMNESIA
A dishonest unprincipled person.
ROGUE
Coins or currency notes representing any of the basic monetary units of Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Mexica and Uruguay.
PESOS
A floor covering made by laying on a burlap or canvas backing a mixture of solidified linseed oil and various solid particles and usually pigments.
LINOLEUM
Marked by strikingly elaborate, colorful, or showy display or behavior.
FLAMBOYANT
A period of extreme scarcity of food.
FAMINE
A place or point of entering or beginning.
Outset.
THRESHOLD
Departing markedly from the natural, the expected or the typical (as by distortion, exaggeration).
Atypical.
GROTESQUE
A small trim pointed or tufted beard on a man’s chin.
GOATEE
Hideous giants represented in fairy tales and folklore as feeding on human beings.
Monsters.
OGRES
A particular range, quality, or use of color.
PALETTE
Characterized by an attitude of doubt or disposition in regard to something particular (such as a supposed fact).
SKEPTICAL
Light sometimes ornamental structures in gardens, parks, or places of recreation that are used for entertainment or shelter.
PAVILIONS
Spouts often having the form of a grotesque figure or animal and projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building.
GARGOYLES
Legendary peoples of the sea having human head, trunk, and arms and the tail of a fish.
MERFOLK
Depressed in spirits.
Mournful.
MELANCHOLY
An artic cetacean that has no dorsal fin, is marbled black and white in color, reaches a length of about 16 feet, and possesses in the male one or rarely two long, spirally twisted pointed tusks.
NARWHAL
Something that confuses, misleads, or is difficult to comprehend.
HOCUS-POCUS
To add (as knowledge or effort) to a common interest or activity.
CONTRIBUTE
A dish of Japanese origin consisting of meat or fish that is grilled or broiled after being marinated in a seasoned soy sauce.
TERIYAKI
A trip or movement especially when involving difficulties or complex organization.
TREK
A mythological divine or semidivine being (as the offspring of a deity and a mortal).
DEMIGOD
Of the color jet black.
ONYX
A medium-sized American wildcat ranging from Texas to Patagonia and having a tawny yellow or grayish coat that is dotted and striped with black.
OCELOT
The peak of a gradual increase (as in physical or emotional force or intensity).
CRESCENDO
The globular yellow fruit of a small shrubby tropical American tree.
GUAVA
A donkey.
BURRO
Involved especially in conflict or with a problem, adversaries, or the law.
EMBROILED
Ancient military devises used for hurling heavy missiles (as stones) or for hurling other missiles (as spears, arrows) with extreme force.
CATAPULTS
Ornamental work of fine wire of gold, silver, or copper that is used chiefly to decorate gold and silver surfaces.
FILIGREE
A dealer in men’s furnishings, such a shirts, ties, and hats.
HABERDASHER
Usually short narratives of interesting, amusing, or curious incidents often biographical and generally characterized by human interest.
ANECDOTES
A body of patrons or customers.
CLIENTELE
Sprayed, squirted.
SPRITZED
To rise or float in the air, especially in seeming defiance of gravitation.
LEVITATE
A state of being turbulently active, wildly agitated, or destructive.
RAMPAGE
Throwing weapons used in hunting large fish and sea animals.
HARPOONS
A document that records that a person has completed a course or graduated from a school.
DIPLOMA
Tissues that function to produce motion and are made up of variously modified elongated cells capable of contracting when stimulated.
MUSCLES
One or more recordings produced as a single unit.
ALBUMS
A outer garment extending from the waist to the ankle or sometimes only to or just below the knee.
TROUSERS
A person engaged in military service.
SOLDIER
A resilient pad for the use as a resting place alone or supported on a bedstead.
MATTRESS
A medium of communication whereby images and sounds are transmitted.
TELEVISION
The external openings of the nose or nasal cavity of a vertebrate.
NOSTRILS
Approval publicly expressed (as by clapping hands).
APPLAUSE
A more favorable or improved position or condition.
ADVANTAGE
A journey by water.
Cruise.
VOYAGE
A muscle having two heads, such as the large flexor muscle of the front of the upper arm.
BICEPS
A separate or attached sealer used in making and closing airtight or liquid containers to ensure tightness.
GASKET
Of or relating to soldiers, arms, or war.
MILITARY
Marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell, living free on the bottom of stones or other objects, feeding on minute plants and animals carried to them by the current.
OYSTERS
A passage providing an alternative deflected route (such as a road to carry traffic around a congested district or a channel to deflect flood water).
BYPASS
A person who without apparent fear faces, accepts, or carries out anything unusually dangerous or foolhardy.
DAREDEVIL
A state of excited interest or feeling.
SENSATION
A tree or shrub that has evergreen or deciduous leaves and usually showy white, yellow, rose, or purple flowers appearing in early spring.
MAGNOLIA
A thin soft pliable sheet or layer especially of animal or vegetable origin.
MEMBRANE
Unfamiliar or uncharacteristic style of dress worn to conceal one’s identity.
DISGUISE
To look out for oneself.
To manage.
FEND
Of or relating to a prepared chocolate containing little sugar.
BITTERSWEET
Having no end.
Extending indefinitely.
INFINITE
Any of various small marine toothed whales that have the snout more or less elongated into a beak and the neck vertebrae partially fused.
DOLPHIN
The remains of the destruction, disorganization, or serious injury of something especially by violence.
WRECKAGE
The act or process of contending or disagreeing in words.
A disputation.
ARGUMENT
Small common harmful animals (such as bedbugs and mice) that tend to occur in great numbers and are difficult to control.
VERMIN
To fool around.
To loiter, dawdle.
LOLLYGAG
A recognition of superior achievement.
A mark of public esteem.
An honor.
LAUREL
A tropical cyclone with winds of 73 mph or greater.
HURRICANE
Any point or region in the air not immediately adjacent to the ground or other solid or liquid surface beneath it.
MIDAIR
Of, or having the characteristics of European style of architecture with slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses, and with pointed arches and vaulting.
GOTHIC (capital G)
A salve for application to the skin.
OINTMENT
A somewhat permanent group elected or appointed to constitute an advisory body or a body with a degree of legislative power.
COUNCIL
A grasshopper that frequently travels in swarms.
LOCUST
Unembodied, elusive.
PHANTOM
A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown and a rather narrow somewhat rolled brim - called also a “Derby.”
BOWLER
A Japanese art of self-defense in which kicks and openhanded blows are delivered especially to vulnerable parts of the body.
KARATE
A dance step in which the dancer rotates on one foot and complete the step by shifting the weight to the other foot.
PIVOT
On fire.
ABLAZE
An extremely and malignantly wicked person.
A human fiend.
DIABLO
Meat (as beef) that has been cut into long slices or strips and dried.
JERKY
To have an effect on one another.
INTERACT
The arbitrary arrangement of contours and fragments on a picture surface without necessary reference to natural objects or their structure.
CUBISM
A female dance in a form of artistic dancing.
BALLERINA
Evasive, tricky.
DODGY
Violating accepted standards of morality, good taste, or polite behavior.
NAUGHTY
Lacking order, coherence, sequence, or plan.
JUMBLED
A child’s game
HOPSCOTCH
Covered or marked with small marks or splotches.
Spotted.
SPECKLED
Narrow free-floating strips (as of cloth or crepe paper).
STREAMERS
Kept within bounds.
Confined.
CAPTIVE
The science of life.
BIOLOGY
To get someone to agree or believe by arguing a point.
CONVINCE
Of or relating to a mark or visible sign left by something dead, lost, or no longer present.
GHOSTLY
Smaller groups of trees than forests often without underwood and planted or growing naturally as if arranged by art.
GROVES
To color with a slight shade or stain.
To tint.
TINGE
Something that follows from an activity or process.
Consequence, result.
OUTCOME
Of the highest quality.
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