New Words 7 Flashcards
Chary
Wary
Execrate
to shit on someone; to curse and hiss at someone.
Cleveland execrated lebron after he left
Exegesis
“critical interpretation of a scholarly work”
The Bible is fertile ground for exegesis: over past centuries innumerable interpretations
Insufferable
sth. or sb. that you cant tolerate
Impertinent
Not showing proper respect
Inflammable (2)
- Flammable
- Incendiary, as in a comment, etc
Disinterested
unbiased, neutral
**Sententious **
to be moralizing; usually in a pompous
*The old man putting his nose up in the air at the group of adolescents intoned sententiously “Youth is wasted on the young” *
Propitiate
Appease; placate
Tendentious
biased; likely to espouse a controversial view
Most of us despite proclamations to the contrary are tendentious on many of today’s pressing issues
Limpid
limpid prose; clear, accessible
Feckless
lazy and irresponsible
Restive
**Restless **
Repine
complain or fret oversomething
Remiss
negligent in one’s duties;
*I’d be remiss if I didnt offer you some tea *
Immanent
existing within;inherent in; restricted to the mind, subjective
Personally, I could have just about accepted some kind of immanent spirit of humanity trying to move the pieces around, or even some kind of overmind, just about anything except god and angels.
Nativism
A policy favoring native born persons over immigrants
Precept
A rule or a principle prescribing a particular course of action or conduct;
**Sublimate **
**to modify the natural expression (of a primitive, instinctual impulse) in a socially acceptable manner. **
Of course, life will be so purposeless that people will have to be biologically or psychologically engineered either to remove their need for the power process or make them “sublimate” their drive for power into some harmless hobby.
**Abjure **
promise or swear to give up;
to renounce upon an oath;
to promise or swear;
**Acculturation **
**A. The modification of the culture of a group or individual as a result of contact with a different culture. **
**B. The process by which the culture of a particular society is instilled in a human from infancy onward. **
Addlepated
Confused; stupid; flustered
Agog
**Full of keen anticipation or excitement; eager. **
Now Washington is agog in a new president with big plans.
Agonistic
**Struggling for effect; argumentative combative; **
Rush Limbaugh in my honest opinion I believe that you are just an agonistic pig, who do not have a heart.
Akimbo
In or into a position in which the hands are on the hips and the elbows are bowed outward:
children standing akimbo by the fence.
Aleatory
Dependent on chance, luck, or an uncertain outcome:
an aleatory contract between an oil prospector and a landowner.
Amity
**Peaceful relations, as between nations’ friendship **
Adjuvant
A thing which aids or assits; an auxiliary;
One who helps or facilitates
An adjuvant is a vaccine component that boosts the immune response to the vaccine.
Anomie
Social instability caused by erosion of standards and values;
When it came to alienation, or what he preferred to call anomie, Durkheim was convinced that such shiftlessness—moral isolation, in effect—was caused by an absence of conventions and a rejection of the society that instituted them.
Analeptic
Restorative or stimulating, as a drug or stimulant
Cool and soothing, the analeptic juice quickly took away the stinging.
Apologia
a formal defense or justification; a written defense of a position or a belief
Apologist
An apologist is somebody that defends the actions of another.
Apposed
** To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
transitive v. To place in juxtaposition or proximit**y.
Apollonian
clear, harmonious, and restrained
Christy Mathewson was an apollonian figure who never drank or cursed, wore a cape when he entered the field at the Polo Grounds, and, beginning in 1903, won at least twenty games in twelve consecutive years.
Bedaubing
smearing or daubing w/ a sticky substance
Despoiling
stealing or plundering
Mawkish
cloying, or sickeningly sentimental
Notional
speculative & foolish
Rhapsodize
talk w/ extravagant enthusiasm
Palter
to be deliberately unclear, to equivocate
Apprising
advising
Abase
to debase; degrading
**Refractory **
stubbornly resistant to control
Disconsolate
‘gloomy’
Bonhomie
affability; likeability
Browbeating
“bullying”
Torpor
apathy or lethargy
Noisome
noxious, harmful, or dangerous
**Nugatory **
of little value; inconsequentiall w/ out effectiveness
Perspicacity
Acumen
Abnegation
to give up or renounce
Beneficent
benevolent, Eleemosynary (charitable)
Devious
indirect; shifty or crooked
