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