PW VOCAB 1-7 Flashcards
ridiculously old-fashioned
Antediluvian
Approval or praise
Approbation
distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status
Caste
A person or nation engaged in fighting during a war
Combatants
The branch of law concerned with the preparations of documents for the transferring of property
Conveyancing
The customary code of polite behavior in society or among members of a particular profession or group
Etiquette
Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable
Formidable
A period of two weeks
Fortnight
A small settlement, generally one smaller than a village
Hamlet
Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong
Infallible
A clumsy, stupid person
Lummox
The fact or condition of being magnanimous; generosity
Magnanimity
Ostentatiously rich and luxurious or lavish: Wealth
Opulent
The quality of being religious or reverent
Piety
An earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered
Precedent
A member or follower of any Western Christian churches that are separate from the Roman Catholic Church
Protestants
An act of retaliation: The forcible seizure of a foreign subject or their goods as an act of retaliation
Reprisals
Ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly
Supplicating
Full of difficulty or tribulation
Torrid
A person who is staying or working in a place for only a short time
Transients
Leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others
Hegemony
The language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region:
Vernacular
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vice
Satire
One’s opponent in a contest, conflict, or dispute
Adversaries
Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior
Capricious
A child believed to have been secretly substituted by fairies for the parents’ real child infancy
Changelings
A conflict, or war
Conflagration
Ready to accept control or instruction; submissive
Docile
Deceive, trick: A victim deception
Dupe
An adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned
Epithet
Express strong disapproval or disagreement
Expostulated
irritable and quarrelsome
Fractious
Make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice: A rude mocking remark
Jeers
Very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect: (of a description) presented in vividly shocking or sensational terms, especially giving explicit details of crime or sexual matters
Lurid
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
Obsequiousness
Stating or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so
Ostensible
Action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry, especially deliberately
Provocation
the authority to represent someone else, especially in voting: A figure that can be used to represent the value of something in a calculation
Proxy
The forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence: Investment in stocks, property, or other venture in the hope of gain but with the risk of loss
Speculations
A person who takes a position of power or importance illegally by force
Usurper
A number of bullets, arrows, or other projectiles discharged at one time
Volley
Increasing in size or importance:
Ascending
Harshness of tone or manner
Asperity
Arithmetic
Cipher
A soldier armed with grenades or a grenade launcher
Grenadier
UNABLE TO BE PLEASED
Implacability
A person’s natural tendency or urge to act or feel in a particular way
Inclination
Inconvenience(someone)
Incommode
Not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something
Incongruous
Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy
Indolent
an embarkment built to prevent the overflow of a river
Levee
The crux or central point of a matter
Nub
(of a person’s face) pale, typically because of poor health
Pallid
A person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities
Prodigies
Remarkably or impressively great in extent size, or degree: Unnatural or abnormal
Prodigious
Having or proceeding from an extreme or fanatical support or belief in something
Rabid
Make or become hard or solid
Solidified
Drink alcohol, especially habitually
Tippling
(especially in a woman) the quality of being attractively lively and animated
Vivacity
Habitual; usual
Wonted
a long or rambling story
Yarn
