Monthly Vocab Quiz Flashcards
Resembling or having the properties of oil / marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality
Oleaginous
To contend against; oppose
Repugn
- One accused with or charged with a crime
- One guilty of a crime or fault
- The source or cause of a problem
Culprit
To make more violent, bitter, or severe
Exacerbate
- The action, process, or fact of spreading apart
2. A divergence of opinion
Divarication
- Of, relating to, or connected with the sense of smell
Olfactory
- Dominant influence or authority of others
2. The social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence by a dominant group
Hegemony
- The use of a word to modify or govern syntacticly two are more words with only one of which it formally agrees in number, gender, or case
Syllepsis
- A long discussion or meeting usually between persons of different cultures or levels of sophistication
- Idle talk, misleading or beguiling speech
Palaver
Extremely sharp or keen
Rapier
The world viewed as a community in which distance and isolation have been dramatically reduced by electronic media
Global village
Immeasurably or incalculably small
Infinitesimal
Great haste
Posthaste
One who attempts to put into effect an abstract doctrine or theory with little or no regard for practical difficulties
Doctrinaire
- An opinion or decision that is based on careful thought
- The act or process of forming an opinion or making a decision after careful thought
- The ability to make good decisions about what should be done
Judgement
Brought back - used postpositively
Redux
- Respect or honor
2. Something that is done to honor someone or something
Homage
- Hopeful or romantic in a way that is not practical
2. Foolishly impractical, especially in the pursuit of ideals
Quixotic
Of or relating to trees
Arboreal
A theory in philosophy that your own existence is the only thing that is real or can be known
Solipsism
An original model on which something is patterned: archetype
Prototype
Conspicuous; especially bad
Egregious
Prevalent especially to an increasing degree
Rife
Volunteering ones services where they are neither asked nor needed
Officious
A melodic phrase or figure that accompanies the reappearance of an idea, person, or situation in a music drama
Leitmotif
Second to last
Penultimate
One who is extremely fond of shopping
Shopaholic
To laugh at contemptuously
Deride
Having a smooth rich flow, filled with something sweet
Mellifluous
To assert without proof or before proving
Allege
Not able to be compared
Incommensurable
The ringing or sounding of bells, a jingling or tinkling sound as if of bells
Tintinnabulation
A going or marching: advance; especially: a military advance
A difficult and dangerous military retreat
Anabasis
Not open to question, indisputable
Incontrovertible
Lacking in candor; also: giving a false appearance of simple frankness: calculating
Disingenuous
Anxiety arising from awareness of guilt
Distress of mind over an anticipated action or result
A twinge of misgiving: scruple
Compunction
Occurring every day
Belonging to each day: everyday
Commonplace, ordinary
Quotidian
To pull up by the roots
To do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots
Eradicate
A landscape method developed especially for arid and semiarid climates that utilizes water conserving techniques (such as the use of drought-tolerant plants, mulch, and efficient irrigation)
Xeriscape
Popular sentiment
Vox populi
Deliberately affected: theatrical
Of or relating to actors, acting, or the theater
Histrionic
Of, relating to, resembling, or characteristic of Thraso: bragging, boastful
Thrasonical
Having a changeable luster or color with an undulating narrow band of white light
Chatoyant
Sort, kind
Ilk
Attempt to ingratiate oneself
To curry favor with (as by flattery)
Apple-polish
Producing wealth, profitable
Lucrative
To win over by wiles: entice
To acquire by ingenuity or flattery: wangle
Inveigle
The character of a language
An intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate
Sprachgefühl
Perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion
Not easily overcome or removed
Obstinate
To have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred); also: claim
Intend purpose
Purport
To draw or paint the surface
To outline in clear sharp detail
Limn
Governed or characterized by caprice: impulsive, unpredictable
Capricious
Joint, connection
A point of time, especially: one made critical by a concurrence of circumstances
Juncture
