MT - Vocabulary Flashcards
To make easier or milder, relieve
Assuage
A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
Coalition
Decline, decay, or deterioration
Decadence
To draw forth, bring out from some source
Elicit
To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
Expostulate
Used so often as to lack freshness or originality
Hackneyed
A gap, opening, break
Hiatus
A hint, indirect suggestion, or reference
Innuendo
To plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
Intercede
Wearied, worn-out, dulled
Jaded
Causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color
Lurid
Worthy, deserving recognition and praise
Meritorious
Peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset
Petulant
A special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence
Prerogative
Pertaining to an outlying area, local, narrow in mind or outlook
Provincial
To make a pretense of, imitate; show outer signs of
Stimulate
To rise above or beyond, exceed
Transcend
Shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; a vague suspicion
Umbrage
Excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety
Unctuous
The expression of approval or favorable opinion
Approbation
Ameliorate
To improve, make better, correct a flaw or short coming
Aplomb
Poise, assurance, great self-confidence, perpendicularly
Bombastic
Pompous or overblown in language, full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas
Callow
Without experience, immature, not fully developed, lacking sophistication and poise
Drivel
Saliva or mucus, flowing from the mouth or nose, foolish, aimless talk or thinking
Epitome
A summary, condensed amount, an instance that represents a larger reality
Exhort
To urge strongly, advise earnestly
Ex officio
By virtue of holding a certain office
Infringe
To violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds
Ingratiate
To make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others
Interloper
One who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder
Intristic
Belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent
Inveigh
To make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval
Lassitude
Weariness of body or mind, lack of energy
Millennium
A period of one thousand years, a period of great joy
Occult
Secret, hidden from view, mysterious, magical, uncanny
Permeate
To spread through, penetrate, soak through
Precipitate
To fall as moisture, to bring about suddenly, to hurl down from a great height
Stringent
Strict, severe, sharp or bitter to the taste
Surmise
To think or believe without certain supporting evidence, to conjecture or guess
Abominate
To have an intense dislike or hatred for
Acculturation
The modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another
Adventitious
Resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character, accidental
Ascribe
To assign or refer to as, attribute
Circuitous
Roundabout, no direct
Commiserate
To sympathize wi h, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress
Enjoin
To direct or order, to prohibit
Expedite
To make easy, cause to progress faster
Expiate
To make amends, make up for, to avert
Ferment
A state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence
Inadvertent
Resulting from or marked by lack of attention, unintentional, accidental
Nominal
Existing in name only, not real
Noncommittal
Not decisive or definite, unwilling to take a clear position
Peculate
To steal something that has been given into one’s trust, to take improperly for one’s own use
Proclivity
A natural or habitual inclination or tendency
Sangfroid
Composure or coolness
Seditious
Resistant to lawful authority
Tenuous
Thin, slender, not dense, lacking clarity or sharpness, poorly supported
Vitriolic
Bitter sarcastic, highly caustic or biting
Wheedle
To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end.
Affable
Courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to
Aggrandize
To increase in greatness, power, or wealth, to make appear greater
Amorphous
Shapeless, without definite form
Archetype
An original model on which something was patterned or replicated
Aura
That which surrounds, a distinctive air or personal quality
Contraband
Illegal traffic, smuggled goods
Erudite
Scholarly, learned, bookish, pedantic
Gossamer
Thin, light, delicate, insubstantial
Inscrutable
Incapable of being understood, impossible to see through physically
Insular
Relating to, characteristic of, or situated on an island; narrow or isolated in outlook or experience
Irrevocable
Incapable of being changed or called back
Propensity
A natural inclination or predilection toward
Querulous
Peevish, complaining, fretful
Remonstrate
To argue with someone against something, protest against
Repudiate
To disown, reject, or deny the validity of
Resilient
Able to return to an original shape or form, able to recover quickly
Reverberate
To re-echo, resound, to reflect or be reflected repeatedly
Scurrilous
Coarsely abusive, vulgar or low, foul-mouthed
Sedulous
Persistent, showing industry and determination
Sleazy
Thin or flimsy in texture, cheap, shoddy or inferior in quality
Amnesty
A general pardon for an offense against a government
Autonomy
Self-government, political control
Axiomatic
Self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle
Blazon
To adorn or embellish, to display conspicuously, to publish or proclaim widely
Caveat
A warning or caution to prevent misunderstanding or discourage behavior
Equitable
Fair, just, embodying principles of justice
Extricate
To free from entanglements or difficulties, to remove with effort
Filch
To steal, especially in a sneaky way and in petty amounts
Flout
To mock, treat with contempt
Fractious
Tending to be troublesome, unruly, quarrelsome
Precept
A rule of conduct or action
Salutary
Beneficial, helpful, healthful, wholesome
Scathing
Bitterly severe, withering, causing great harm
Scourge
To whip, punish severely
Sepulchral
Funereal, typical of the tomb, extremely gloomy or dismal
Soporific
Tending to cause sleep
Straightlaced
Extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct
Transient
Lasting only a short time
Unwieldy
No easily carried, handled, or managed because of size or complexity
Vapid
Dull, uninteresting, tiresome, lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force
Anomalous
Abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
Aspersion
A damaging or derogatory statement, the act of slandering or defaming
Bizarre
Extremely strange, unusual, atypical
Brusque
Abrupt, blunt, with no formalities
Cajole
To coax, persuade through flattery or artifice, to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises
Castigate
To punish severely, to criticize severely
Contrive
To plan with ingenuity, to bring about through a plan
Demagogue
A leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
Disabuse
To free from deception or error, set right in ideas or thinking
Ennui
Weariness and dissatisfaction from lack or occupation or interest, boredom
Fetter
A chain or shackle placed on the feet, anything that confines or restrains
Heinous
Very wicked, offensive, hateful
Immutable
No subject to change, constant
Insurgent
One who rebels or rises against authority
Megalomania
A delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent, etc.
Sinecure
A position requiring little or no work, an easy job
Surreptitious
Stealthily, secret, intended to escape observation
Transgress
To go beyond a limit or boundary, to sin, violate a law
Transmute
To change from one nature, substance, or form to another
Vicarious
Performed, suffered, or otherwise experienced by one person in place of another
