Module 5 Vocabulary Flashcards
abhorrent
ab·hor·rent (ăb-hôrənt, -hŏr-)
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adj.
1. Disgusting, loathsome, or repellent.
2. Feeling repugnance or loathing.
amain
: with all one’s might
to a high degree : EXCEEDINGLY
bedight
To dress or array.
bemuse
- To cause to be bewildered; confuse.
- To occupy the attention of; absorb or engross: The book bemused him for days.
- Usage Problem To cause to be mildly or wryly amused: “Unlike William McKinley,
boorish
Resembling or characteristic of a boor; rude and clumsy in behavior.
cerement
- Cerecloth.
- often cerements A burial garment.
churlish
- Having a bad disposition; surly: “as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear” (Shakespeare).
- Archaic Of, like, or befitting a churl; boorish or vulgar.
- Archaic Difficult to work with; intractable. Used as of soil.
colossal
- Of great size, extent, or amount; immense. See Synonyms at enormous.
- Of great scope or consequence; monumental: a colossal blunder.
extremity
- The outermost or farthest point or portion: at the extremity of the peninsula.
- The greatest or utmost degree: the extremity of despair.
- Grave danger, necessity, or distress: people in extremity.
- An extreme or severe measure: had to resort to extremities in the crisis.
5.
a. A bodily limb: She is in a wheelchair because of weakness of the lower extremities.
b. extremities The hands and feet: Frostbite affects the extremities first.
fester
- To generate pus; suppurate.
- To form an ulcer.
- To undergo decay; rot.
4.
a. To be or become an increasing source of irritation or poisoning; rankle: bitterness that festered and grew.
b. To be subject to or exist in a condition of decline: allowed the once beautiful park to fester.
v. tr.
To infect, inflame, or corrupt.
n.
A small festering sore or ulcer; a pustule.
flagrant
- Conspicuously bad, offensive, or reprehensible: a flagrant miscarriage of justice. See Usage Note at blatant.
- Obsolete Flaming; blazing.
frigate
- A warship that is smaller than a destroyer and used primarily for escort duty.
- A high-speed, medium-sized sailing war vessel of the 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s.
- Obsolete A fast, light vessel, such as a sailboat.
laving
- To wash; bathe.
- To lap or wash against: Waves laved the shore.
- To refresh or soothe as if by washing: “The quiet and the cool laved her” (Edna Ferber).
luminous
1.
a. Emitting light, especially in the dark; shining.
b. Reflecting light; illuminated: “He watched a luminous cloud drifting up from the Gulf” (Tim Gautreaux). See Synonyms at bright.
2. Having a high degree of saturation: a luminous green.
3.
a. Presented or perceived clearly or vividly: luminous memories.
b. Enlightened or intelligent: luminous ideas.
manifold
adj.
1. Many and varied; of many kinds; multiple: our manifold failings.
2. Having many features or forms: manifold intelligence.
3. Being such for a variety of reasons: a manifold traitor.
4. Consisting of or operating several devices of one kind at the same time.
n.
1. A whole composed of diverse elements.
2. One of several copies.
3. A pipe or chamber having multiple apertures for making connections.
4. Mathematics A topological space in which each point has a neighborhood that is equivalent to a neighborhood in Euclidean space. The surface of a sphere is a two-dimensional manifold because the neighborhood of each point is equivalent to a part of the plane.
tr.v. man·i·fold·ed, man·i·fold·ing, man·i·folds
1. To make several copies of, as with carbon paper.
2. To make manifold; multiply.
oppress
- To keep down by severe and unjust use of force or authority: a people who were oppressed by tyranny.
- To cause to feel worried or depressed: “People were at a loss … oppressed by the atmosphere of the dead man’s room” (Ward Just).
- Obsolete To overwhelm or crush.
rime
- A white incrustation of ice formed when supercooled water droplets freeze almost instantly on contact with a solid surface.
- A coating, as of mud or slime, likened to a frosty film: “A meal couldn’t leave us feeling really full unless it laid down a rime of fat globules in our mouths and stomachs” (James Fallows).
spartan
- Of or relating to Sparta or its people.
- also spartan
a. Rigorously self-disciplined or self-restrained.
b. Simple, frugal, or austere: a Spartan diet; a spartan lifestyle.
c. Marked by brevity of speech; laconic.
d. Courageous in the face of pain, danger, or adversity.
n. - A citizen of Sparta.
- One of Spartan character.
tranquil
- Free from commotion or disturbance: a tranquil lake; a tranquil evening.
- Free from anxiety, tension, or restlessness; composed: a tranquil mind. See Synonyms at calm.
- Steady; even: a tranquil flame.
tremulous
adj.
1.
a. Marked by trembling, quivering, or shaking: tremulous hands.
b. Marked by a rapid varying between pitches or tones: a tremulous voice.
2. Timid or fearful: “the tremulous daughter who never left her father’s house” (Margo Jefferson).
visage
n.
1. The face or facial expression of a person; countenance.
2. Appearance; aspect: the bleak visage of winter.
winsome
Charming, often in a childlike or naive way.
wizened
Withered
