Quarter 3 Flashcards
Wan
wan - adj. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; noun a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network; verb become pale and sickly
Ambivalent
ambivalent - adj. uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
Scorn
scorn - noun open disrespect for a person or thing; lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; verb reject with contempt; look down on with disdain
Implication
implication - noun an accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection; a relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement); a logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q’; if p is true then q cannot be false; something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred
Balm
balm - noun any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing; semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
Reactionary
reactionary - adj. extremely conservative; noun an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism
Garland
garland - noun flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes; an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.; verb adorn with bands of flowers or leaves
Austere
austere - adj. of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; severely simple; practicing great self-denial
Craggy
craggy - adj. rocky and steep; having hills and crags
Pastoral
pastoral - adj. of or relating to a pastor; suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene; used of idealized country life;relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; noun a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds); a letter from a pastor to the congregation; a musical composition that evokes rural life
Madrigal
madrigal - noun an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form; verb sing madrigals
Premise
premise - noun a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; verb take something as preexisting and given; set forth beforehand, often as an explanation; furnish with a preface or introduction
Swain
swain - noun a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman
Scorn
scorn - noun open disrespect for a person or thing; lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; verb reject with contempt; look down on with disdain
Innate
innate - adj. present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development; being talented through inherited qualities; not established by conditioning or learning
Alter
alter - verb remove the ovaries of; make an alteration to; make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one’s or its former characteristics or essence; cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
Folly
folly - noun foolish or senseless behavior; the trait of acting stupidly or rashly; the quality of being rash and foolish; a stupid mistake
Revert
revert - verb undergo reversion, as in a mutation; go back to a previous state
Amber
amber - adj. of a medium to dark brownish yellow color; noun a deep yellow color; a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry
Dour
dour - adj. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; showing a brooding ill humor; stubbornly unyielding
Exact
exact - adj. marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact; (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct; verb take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; claim as due or just
Penury
penury - noun a state of extreme poverty or destitution
Coy
coy - adj. modestly or warily rejecting approaches or overtures;showing marked and often playful or irritating evasiveness or reluctance to make a definite or committing statement; affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way
Circumscribed
circumscribed - adj. showing or determining a boundary; subject to limits or subjected to limits
Yoke
yoke - noun stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team; fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment; a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together; support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end; a pair of draft animals joined by a yoke; an oppressive power; two items of the same kind; verb put a yoke on or join with a yoke; link with or as with a yoke; become joined or linked together
Ingenuous
ingenuous - adj. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; lacking in sophistication or worldliness
Semblance
semblance - noun an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing; an erroneous mental representation
Jocund
jocund - adj. full of or showing high-spirited merriment
Tract
tract - noun a system of body parts that together serve some particular purpose; a brief treatise on a subject of interest; published in the form of a booklet; an extended area of land; a bundle of myelinated nerve fibers following a path through the brain
Sordid
sordid - adj. meanly avaricious and mercenary; foul and run-down and repulsive; unethical or dishonest; morally degraded
Parley
parley - noun a negotiation between enemies; verb discuss, as between enemies
Recompense
recompense - noun the act of compensating for service or loss or injury; payment or reward (as for service rendered); verb make payment to; compensate; make amends for; pay compensation for
Congenial
congenial - adj. used of plants; capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted; suitable to your needs or similar to your nature
Turbulent
turbulent - adj. (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
Turmid
tumid - adj. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid; abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; ostentatiously lofty in style
Obdurate
obdurate - adj. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings;stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
Supplication
supplication - noun a humble request for help from someone in authority; the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving); a prayer asking God’s help as part of a religious service
Ignominy
ignominy - noun a state of dishonor
Potency
potency - noun capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects; the state of being potent; a male’s capacity to have sexual intercourse; the power or right to give orders or make decisions; the inherent capacity for coming into being
Transgress
transgress - verb pass beyond (limits or boundaries); act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline; commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
Abomination
abomination - noun an action that is vicious or vile; an action that arouses disgust or abhorrence; a person who is loathsome or disgusting; hate coupled with disgust
Insidious
insidious - adj. working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; intended to entrap; beguiling but harmful
Alacrity
alacrity - noun liveliness and eagerness
Insipid
insipid - adj. not pleasing to the sense of taste; lacking interest or significance; lacking significance or impact; lacking taste or flavor or tang
Alienist
alienist - noun a psychiatrist and specialist in the legal aspects of mental illness
Interminable
interminable - adj. tiresomely long; seemingly without end
Apprehend
apprehend - verb anticipate with dread or anxiety; get the meaning of something; take into custody
Lugubrious
lugubrious - adj. excessively mournful
Ascetic
ascetic - adj. practicing great self-denial; pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; noun someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
Moribund
moribund - adj. being on the point of death; breathing your last; not growing or changing; without force or vitality
August
august - adj. profoundly honored; of or befitting a lord
Nicety
nicety - noun conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
Brights
brights- the middle part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends.
2.
the loop or bent part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends.
3.
a bend or curve in the shore of a sea or river.
4.
a body of water bounded by such a bend.
5.
a bay or gulf.
Prevaricator
prevaricator - noun a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
Declivity
declivity - noun a downward slope or bend
Recrudesence
recrudesence. breaking out afresh or into renewed activity; revival or reappearance in active existence.
Immutability
immutability - noun the quality of being incapable of mutation
Sententiously
sententiously- abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
2.
given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous.
3.
given to or using pithy sayings or maxims: a sententious poet.
4.
of the nature of a maxim; pithy.
Inscrutable
inscrutable - adj. of an obscure nature
Sepulcher
Sepulcher - noun a chamber that is used as a grave
Somnambulist
somnambulist - noun someone who walks about in their sleep
Emissary
Emissary - noun someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else
Voubility
volubility - noun the quality of being facile in speech and writing
Recondite
recondite - adj. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
Abject
abject - adj. showing humiliation or submissiveness; of the most contemptible kind; most unfortunate or miserable; showing utter resignation or hopelessness
Trammel
trammel - noun a restraint that is used to teach a horse to amble;an adjustable pothook set in a fireplace; a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner); a fishing net with three layers; the outer two are coarse mesh and the loose inner layer is fine mesh; verbplace limits on (extent or access); catch in or as if in a trap
Abscond
abscond - verb run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
Fecundity
fecundity - noun the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination; the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth; the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
Jocose
jocose - adj. characterized by jokes and good humor
Pensive
pensive - adj. showing pensive sadness; persistently or morbidly thoughtful
Voracious
voracious - adj. devouring or craving food in great quantities;excessively greedy and grasping
Introspective
introspective - adj. given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences
Transitory
transitory - adj. lasting a very short time
Assimilation
assimilation - noun in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance; a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound; the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion; the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another; the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family; the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure
Spasmodic
spasmodic - adj. occurring in spells and often abruptly; affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
Anachronism
anachronism - noun an artifact that belongs to another time; a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age; something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred
Adroitly
adroitly - adv. in an adroit manner
