PnP Final Vocab Flashcards
Abashed
Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed
Advantageous
Involving/creating favorable circumstances that increase the chances of success or effectiveness: beneficial
Assiduous
Showing great care, attention, and effort
Brook
To stand for, tolerate, or allow for dissent or opposition
Cogent
Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason: convincing
Decorum
Behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety
Diffident
Modest or shy because of lack of self-confidence
Dilatory
Characterized by procrastination: tardy, causing delay
Expeditious
Done with speed and efficiency
Fastidious
Showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care
Forbearance
Patient self-control, restraint, and tolerance: refraining from something
Impudence
The quality or state of not showing respect for another person: impertinence
Insinuating
Winning favor and confidence by imperceptible degrees: ingratiating
Insipid
Lacking flavor, vigor, interest
Insolent
Showing a rude/arrogant lack of respect
Inure
To accustom to accept something undesireable
Mercenary
Primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics
Obsequious
Trying too hard to please somebody, especially someone important
Officious
Volunteering one’s services where they are neither asked nor needed: meddlesome
Pecuniary
Consisting of, relating to, or measured in money
Querulous
Habitually complaining in a petulant or whining manner
Supersede
To force out of use as inferior
Supercilious
Behaving/looking as though one thinks they are superior
Tacit
Understood or implied without being asked
Vex
Causing/tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry
