Part 4 Flashcards
Exacerbate
to make a bad situation worse
Exasperate
to annoy extremely
Martinet
a strict disciplinarian
Menagerie
Diverse or Different Group of People
Sycophant
Flatters rich or influential people
Dilettante
A person who cultivates or engages in an area of interest without real commitment
Tyro
amateur, someone who is inexperienced
Virtuoso
On who developed excellent skill in an artistic field, generally allied to music; ex. Maestro
Virago
A loud mouthed, bad tempered woman, bossy, harridan
Chauvinist
Exaggeratedly devoted to one’s own affiliation like country, gender etc;
Patrimony
An inheritance from one’s father
Patriarch
The male head of the family
Patricide
Killing of one’s father
Alma Mater
School or College
Matricide
Killing of one’s mother
Parricide
Killing of either father or mother
Fatricide
Killing of one’s brother
Regicide
Killing of king
Uxoricide
Killing of one’s wife
Fraternize
To associate on close terms with members who belong to an opposite army team or different social positions
Fraternal
Brotherly
Fraternity
Botherhood
Sorority
A women’s organization
Uxorious
Used for man who excessively even absurdly worships and submits to all of his wife’s outrageous demands; biwi ka paalu pakdne wala
Uxorial
Pertaining to or characteristics of a wife
Henpecked
Husband under the dominance of wife does worship
Monomania
Abnormal obsession with one particular thing
Dipsomania
A person who obsessed with alcohol
Morbid
Unpleasant, abnormal
Kleptomania
A morbid(abnormal) compulsion to steal
Pyromania
Morbid(abnormal) compulsion to start fires
Megalomania
Morbid delusion of power and godliness
Incendiarism
To set fire for revenge
Arson
To set fire maliciously for economic or monetary gain
Arduous
Passionate, Strenuous
Iconoclast
Person who is violently against cherished established, beliefs, institutions, etc;
Atheist
who doesn’t believe in god
Unswerving
who doesn’t change
Monotheism
Belief in one god
Polytheism
Belief in many gods
Pantheism
Belief that god is not in man’s image but is a combination of all forces of the universe
Theology
study of god and religion
Gnostic
Knowledge
Agnostic
A person who claims that god is unknowable, they may or may not exist
Prognosis
Knowing beforehand, a prediction (generally related to a medical term)
Diagnosis
Knowing through examination or test
Lecher
A womanizer
Lewd
Vulgar
Hypochondriac
A person who abnormally anxious about one’s health
Convivial
Cheerful, happy, sociable
Vivacious
full of joy of living
Viviparous
Producing live babies; not eggs (Mammals)
Underscore
to support
