Real List Flashcards
Abhor
To feel hatred for.
Abjure
To reject solemnly.
Abortive
rematurely born, fruitless, unsuccessful
Abrogate
Repeal or do away with, Avskaffa.
Accost
To approach and speak in an often challenging or aggressive way.
Acme
The highest point or stage.
Acrimonious
Angry and bitter, especially in feeling, language, or manner.
Adroit
Having or showing skill in handling situations.
Alacrity
Cheerful response.
Altruistic
Having or showing an unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
Ameliorate
To make better or more tolerable.
Amicable
Peaceable.
Anathema
Someone or something intensely disliked or loathed.
Annals
A record of events arranged I yearly sequence.
Anomaly
Something different or not easily classified.
Appellation
An identifying name or title. Like Dr.
Ardent
Very passionate and enthusiastic.
Artifice
An industry dominated by trickery.
Artless
Without guile or deception, eg. Natural, simple.
Asperity
Harshess of tone or manners.
Assiduous
Showing great care and perseverance.
Audacity
A willingness to take bold risks.
Avarice
Extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
Banal
Often used and therefor boring.
Belligerent
Hostile and aggressive.
Benignity
Kindness or tolerance against others.
Blatant
Obvious.
Brash
Full of oneself
Burgeon
Grow or increase rapidly
Cabal
Group, set, party, camp
Cache
A collection of the same type stored in a hidden place
Cajole
Persuade someone to do something with flattery
Callous
Showing or having an insensitive or cruel disregard forwards others
Cant
Hypocrite you, humbug, empty talk
Capricious
Variable, unstable
Caustic
Able to burn or corrode tissue by chemical action.
Celerity
Swiftness of movement
Choleric
Bad tempered or irritable
Clique
Inner circle, group
Cogent
Convincing, compelling
Complacent
Showing smug or uncritical satisfaction
Complicity
Collusion, involvement, collaborations
Conflagration
Fire
Conjecture
Opinion based on inconclusive information
Consternation
Feeling of anxiety
Contort
To bend out of shape
Culpable
Deserving blame
Cursory
Uninterested, half hearted
Dearth
Lack of something
Debris
Scattered pieces of rubbish or remains
Decadence
Moral or cultural decline characterised by indulgent interest in luxury
Decrepit
Worn out our ruined by age or neglect
Deleterious
Causing harm or damage
Demur
Show reluctance
Denouement
Final part where the plot is explained
Derogatory
Showing a disrespectful attitude
Desultory
Lacking a plan or purpose
Detriment
State of being harmed
Diatribe
Forceful and bitter verbal attack
Dilatory
Slow to act
Discern
Recognise or find out
Disparate
Different in kind
Disseminate
Spread
Duress
Threats that force someone to do something
Edifice
A large imposing building
Efficacy
The ability to produce a desired result.
Egregious
Outstandingly bad
Elicit
Evoke or draw out something from someone.
Eminent
Esteem, notable, great
Encomium
A piece of writing or speech that praises someone highly.
Enervated
Making someone feel drained of energy
Ennui
A feeling of boredom.
Epitome
Essence, model, classic example
Eschew
Refrain from, avoid using.
Euphemism
Polite term, indirect word or expression.
Evanescent
Vanishing, fading.
Exacerbate
Aggrivate, make worse.
Excoriate
Remove pet of surface skin.
Exculpatory
Declare that someone is not guilty
Exonerate
Release someone from an obligation
Expunge
Erased, removed, deleted
Extentuate
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Extol
Praise entustiasticly
Extortion
The practice of obtaining something.
Facetious
Treating an inappropriately situation with deliberate humor.
Factitious
Artificially created
Fallacious
Based on a misstanken belief
Fastidious
Perfectionist
Fatuous
Silly, foolish, stupid
Felicitous
Fortunate, advantageous
Flagrant
Obvious
Foist
Introduce
Fortuitous
Lucky, fortunate
Fraught
Anxious, worried
Fulsome
Compelmentary to a unflattering degree
Garrulous
Excessively talkative
G
Relevant, applicable
Gesticulate
Signal
Gregarious
Social, friendly
Guile
Willingness, intelligence
Guise
Lioness, form, shape
Gullible
Over trusting, easily persuaded
Heinous
Wicked, evil
Histrionics
Dramatics, theatrics
Hyperbole
Exaggeration, overstatement
Ignominious
Humiliating, embarrassing
Impeccable
Flawless, spotless
Importune
Harass someone to do something
Impunity
Freedom of punshiment
Inchoate
Just begun and not so developed
Indict
Charged with, accused of
Indigent
Poor, needy
Indolent
Lazy
Inebriated
Make some one drunk, intoxicated
Inexorable
Impossible to stop or prevent
Ingratiate
Bringing oneself to favour by flattering someone else
Insatiable
Uncontrollable
Internecine
Deathly, bloody, internal, family
Intrepid
Fearless, adventurous
Inundate
Swamped, overwhelmed
Inveigh
Protest
Itinerant
Travelling, roaming, touring
Jaunty
Cheerful, happy
Juxtapose
Compare, context
Laconic
Brief, quiet
Lassitude
Lack of energy
Lethargic
Sluggish, lazy
Lithe
Graceful, slender, slim
Livid
Furiously angry, (dark in colour)
Loathe
Hate
Lugubrious
Sad, unhappy, gloomy
Lurid
Brightly coloured, exaggerated
Malevolent
Evil-minded
Malleable
Soft, easily influenced
Martinet
Disciplinarian, Slave-driver
Maudlin
Over sentimental, emotional
Mendacious
Dishonest, false
Mien
Appearance, expression
Miscreant
Criminal, offender
Moribund
Dying, near death
Munificent
Generous
Myriad
A large/great number/quantity of, mass
Nascent
Developing, growing
Nefarious
Wicked, evil, criminal
Noisome
Having an extremely offensive smell
Nominal
Titular, formal
Obliterate
Erased
Obloquy
Shame, humiliation
Obsequious
Greasy, submissive
Obsolescence
The process of becoming outdated
Obstreperous
Noisy and difficult to control.
Ominous
Threatening, dark
Opprobrium
Abuse, criticism, disgrace, shame, humiliation
Ostentatious
Showy, extravagant, flashy
Ostensible
Apparent, seeming, outward, surface
Ostracize
Exclude, cold-shoulder
Overt
Undisguised, unconceled, plain, clear, apparent
Palliate
Ease, relieve
Panacea
Universal remedy
Paragon
Perfect example, model
Pariah
An outcast.
Paroxysm
Spasm, attack, fit, burst, seizure
Parsimonious
Penny pinching, Scrooge- like, cheap
Paucity
Small or insufficient quantities or amounts
Penchant
Taste, liking
Penury
Extreme poverty
Peregrination
A journey
Perfidious
Disloyal, unfaithful, false
Perfunctory
Quick, brief, hasty
Pernicious
Harmful, damaging
Perspicacious
Having a ready insight into and understanding of things
Peruse
Read (something)
Pique
Irritation, annoyance
Plaintiff
A person who brings a case against another in court of law
Plethora
A large or excessive amount of something
Poignant
Touching, moving, sad
Precipitate
Bring about, lead on, through, lounge
Prerogative
A right or privilege
Prescient
Predictive, psychic
Presentiment
Intuition, feeling, hunch, suspision
Proffer
Offer, present, put-forward
Profligate
Wasteful, irresponsible, shameless
Promulgate
Make known, announce
Propitious
Fortunate, lucky
Puissant
Having great power or influence
Qualm
Doubt, second-though
Quip
Joke, witty remark
Raconteur
Storyteller
Rapacious
Grasping, greedy, money-grabbing
Rebuke
Criticise, tell of
Recondite
Little, difficult, complex
Remuneration
Payment, salary
Repertoire
Collection, store
Repine
Be/feel upset
Replete
Well feed, filled, full
Reticent
Withdrawn, shy
Retort
Answer, reply, respond
Risible
Laughable, amusing
Salubrious
Healthy, pleasant
Sanguine
Optimistic, hopeful
Satiety
Satisfaction, fullness
Scion
Twig, child, offspring, descendant
Scurrilous
Abusive, offensive
Shibboleth
A belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people
Sinecure
Easy job, easy money
Succinct
Short, brief
Sultry
Close, airless, suffocating
Tortuous
Curvy, bendy
Trenchant
Cutting, piercing, sharp
Turpitude
Immorality, corruption, evil
Ubiquitous
Present everywhere, worldwide, universal
Umbrage
Offence or annoyance, shade or shadows
Unconscionable
Unethical, immoral
Unctuous
Smooth talking, ass-kissing
Viscid
Sticky consistency
Vitiate
Destroy or impair the legal validity
Vituperation
Bitter and abusive language
Voluble
Talkative, wordy, chatty
