Reading 8 List 10 Flashcards
Ambivalence
Mixed feelings or emotions
Arduous
Difficult to accomplish, taxing to the utmost, requiring a lot of strength
Belittle
Lessen authority or dignity or reputation, negatively express
Cataclysmic
Severely destructive
Digression
Straying from the main point
Divisive
Disagreeing or having different opinions
Emphatic
Forceful or definite, sudden and strong, spoke with emphasis
Exacerbate
Exasperate or irritate, to worsen
Hostility
Unfriendly, violent
Incessant
Occurring so frequently, infinitely, not interrupted
Inhibit
Limit the forces of, put and end to with authority
Inveterate
Having the habit of standing long
Licentious
Lacking moral discipline
Metaphysical
High abstract, obverse theoretical, without material form or substance
Modicum
A small or moderate token amount
Novel
Book, never seen before
Omnipotent
Having unlimited power
Partisan
Devoted to cause or party, a blade
Perfunctory
Hasty, without attention to detail
Petulance
Suddenly irritated
Polemic
Controversial
Progenitor
A ancestor in direct line
Protean
Taking on different forms
Reconnaissance
To examine or survey an enemy
Scurrilous
Expressing offensive reproach
Sullenness
Gloomy, resentful disposition
Ubiquitous
Present everywhere
Venerate
Respect or be in awe of
Vituperate
Spread bad information about
Wistfulness
A sadly pensive longing
Acknowledge
Accept as legally binding and valid, claim to be true or existent, accept ones claimed power and authority
