SAT 8 Flashcards
Atheist
a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings. | a person who does not believe in God or gods | of or relating to atheists or atheism
Colloquial
characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. | involving or using conversation. | of or relating to conversation | denoting or characterized by informal or conversational idiom or vocabulary Compare informal
Dotard
a person, especially an old person, exhibiting a decline in mental faculties; a weak-minded or foolish old person. | doater2. | a person who is weak-minded, esp through senility
Furrow
a narrow groove made in the ground, especially by a plow. | a narrow groovelike or trenchlike depression in any surface: the furrows of a wrinkled face. | to make a furrow or furrows in. | to make wrinkles in (the face): to furrow one’s brow. | to become furrowed. | a long narrow trench made in the ground by a plough or a trench resembling this | any long deep groove, esp a deep wrinkle on the forehead | to develop or cause to develop furrows or wrinkles | to make a furrow or furrows in (land) |
Instigator
to cause by incitement; foment: to instigate a quarrel. | to urge, provoke, or incite to some action or course: to instigate the people to revolt. | to bring about, as by incitement or urging: to instigate rebellion | to urge on to some drastic or inadvisable action
Misnomer
a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation. | an error in naming a person or thing. | an incorrect or unsuitable name or term for a person or thing | the act of referring to a person by the wrong name
Percipient
perceiving or capable of perceiving. | having perception; discerning; discriminating: a percipient choice of wines. | a person or thing that perceives. | able to perceive | perceptive | a person or thing that perceives
Quaff
to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment. | to drink (a beverage) copiously and heartily: We spent the whole evening quaffing ale. | an act or instance of quaffing. | a beverage quaffed. | to drink heartily or in one draught
Staunch
stanch1. | firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, etc., as a person: a staunch Republican; a staunch friend. | characterized by firmness, steadfastness, or loyalty: He delivered a staunch defense of the government. | strong; substantial: a staunch little hut in the woods. | impervious to water or other liquids; watertight: a staunch vessel. | to stem the flow of (a liquid, esp blood) or (of a liquid) to stop flowing | to prevent the flow of a liquid, esp blood, from (a hole, wound, etc) | an archaic word for assuage | a primitive form of lock in which boats are carried over shallow parts of a river in a rush of water released by the lock | loyal, firm, and dependable: a staunch supporter
Vilification
to speak ill of; defame; slander. | Obsolete. to make vile. | to revile with abusive or defamatory language; malign: he has been vilified in the tabloid press | (rare) to make vile; debase; degrade
Atrophy
Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /??tro? fi ?/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage. | degeneration, decline, or decrease, as from disuse: He argued that there was a progressive atrophy of freedom and independence of thought. | to affect with or undergo atrophy. | a wasting away of an organ or part, or a failure to grow to normal size as the result of disease, faulty nutrition, etc | any degeneration or diminution, esp through lack of use | to waste away or cause to waste away
Collusion
a secret agreement, especially for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy: Some of his employees were acting in collusion to rob him. | Law. a secret understanding between two or more persons to gain something illegally, to defraud another of his or her rights, or to appear as adversaries though in agreement: collusion of husband and wife to obtain a divorce. | secret agreement for a fraudulent purpose; connivance; conspiracy | a secret agreement between opponents at law in order to obtain a judicial decision for some wrongful or improper purpose
Drawl
to say or speak in a slow manner, usually prolonging the vowels. | an act or utterance of a person who drawls. | to speak or utter (words) slowly, esp prolonging the vowel sounds | the way of speech of someone who drawls
Furtive
taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance. | sly; shifty: a furtive manner. | characterized by stealth; sly and secretive
Insurgent
a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel. | a member of a section of a political party that revolts against the methods or policies of the party. | of or characteristic of an insurgent or insurgents. | surging or rushing in: The insurgent waves battered the shore. | rebellious or in revolt, as against a government in power or the civil authorities | a person who takes part in an uprising or rebellion; insurrectionist | (international law) a person or group that rises in revolt against an established government or authority but whose conduct does not amount to belligerency
Misogynist
a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women. | misógino | misógino
Perdition
a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation. | the future state of the wicked. | hell (def 1). | utter destruction or ruin. | Obsolete, loss. | (Christianity)
final and irrevocable spiritual ruin
this state as one that the wicked are said to be destined to endure for ever | another word for hell | (archaic) utter disaster, ruin, or destruction
Quagmire
an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog. | a situation from which extrication is very difficult: a quagmire of financial indebtedness. | anything soft or flabby. | a soft wet area of land that gives way under the feet; bog | an awkward, complex, or embarrassing situation
Stereotype
a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal. | a plate made by this process. | a set form; convention. | Sociology. a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: The cowboy and Indian are American stereotypes. | to make a stereotype of. | to characterize or regard as a stereotype: The actor has been stereotyped as a villain. | to give a fixed form to. | a method of producing cast-metal printing plates from a mould made from a forme of type matter in papier-mâché or some other material
the plate so made | another word for stereotypy | an idea, trait, convention, etc, that has grown stale through fixed usage
Vindicate
to clear, as from an accusation, imputation, suspicion, or the like: to vindicate someone’s honor. | to afford justification for; justify: Subsequent events vindicated his policy. | to uphold or justify by argument or evidence: to vindicate a claim. | to assert, maintain, or defend (a right, cause, etc.) against opposition. | to claim for oneself or another. | Roman and Civil Law. to regain possession, under claim of title of property through legal procedure, or to assert one’s right to possession. | to get revenge for; avenge. | Obsolete. to deliver from; liberate. | Obsolete. to punish. | to clear from guilt, accusation, blame, etc, as by evidence or argument
Attenuate
to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity, or value: to attenuate desire. | to make thin; make slender or fine. | Bacteriology, Immunology. to render less virulent, as a strain of pathogenic virus or bacterium. | Electronics. to decrease the amplitude of (an electronic signal). | to become thin or fine; lessen. | weakened; diminishing. | Botany. tapering gradually to a narrow extremity. | to weaken or become weak; reduce in size, strength, density, or value | to make or become thin or fine; extend | (transitive) to make (a pathogenic bacterium, virus, etc) less virulent, as by culture in special media or exposure to heat
Commandeer
to order or force into active military service. | to seize (private property) for military or other public use: The police officer commandeered a taxi and took off after the getaway car. | to seize arbitrarily. | to seize for public or military use | to seize arbitrarily
Drivel
saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver. | childish, silly, or meaningless talk or thinking; nonsense; twaddle. | to let saliva flow from the mouth or mucus from the nose; slaver. | to talk childishly or idiotically. | Archaic. to issue like spittle. | to utter childishly or idiotically. | to waste foolishly. | to allow (saliva) to flow from the mouth; dribble | (intransitive) to speak foolishly or childishly | foolish or senseless talk
Futile
incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful: Attempting to force-feed the sick horse was futile. | trifling; frivolous; unimportant. | having no effective result; unsuccessful | pointless; unimportant; trifling | inane or foolish: don’t be so futile!
Interminable
incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job. | monotonously or annoyingly protracted or continued; unceasing; incessant: I can’t stand that interminable clatter. | having no limits: an interminable desert. | endless or seemingly endless because of monotony or tiresome length
Misrepresentation
to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely. | to represent in an unsatisfactory manner. | (transitive) to represent wrongly or inaccurately
Peremptory
leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; imperative: a peremptory command. | imperious or dictatorial. | positive or assertive in speech, tone, manner, etc. | Law.
that precludes or does not admit of debate, question, etc.: a peremptory edict.
decisive or final.
in which a command is absolute and unconditional: a peremptory writ. | urgent or commanding: a peremptory ring on the bell | not able to be remitted or debated; decisive | positive or assured in speech, manner, etc; dogmatic | (law)
admitting of no denial or contradiction; precluding debate
obligatory rather than permissive
Quaint
having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; oddly picturesque: a quaint old house. | strange, peculiar, or unusual in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way: a quaint sense of humor. | skillfully or cleverly made. | Obsolete. wise; skilled. | attractively unusual, esp in an old-fashioned style: a quaint village | odd, peculiar, or inappropriate: a quaint sense of duty
Stevedore
a firm or individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel. | to load or unload the cargo of (a ship). | to load or unload a vessel. | a person employed to load or unload ships | to load or unload (a ship, ship’s cargo, etc)
Virtuoso
a person who has special knowledge or skill in a field. | a person who excels in musical technique or execution. | a person who has a cultivated appreciation of artistic excellence, as a connoisseur or collector of objects of art, antiques, etc. | Obsolete. a person who has special interest or knowledge in the arts and sciences; scientist; scholar. | Also, virtuosic [vur-choo-os-ik] /?v?r t?u??s ?k/ (Show IPA). of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a virtuoso: a virtuoso performance. | a consummate master of musical technique and artistry | a person who has a masterly or dazzling skill or technique in any field of activity | a connoisseur, dilettante, or collector of art objects | (obsolete) a scholar or savant | (modifier) showing masterly skill or brilliance: a virtuoso performance
Augment
to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance. | Music.
to raise (the upper note of an interval or chord) by a half step.
to double the note values of (a theme): In the fugue's development the subject is augmented. | Grammar. to add an augment to. | Heraldry. to grant an augmentation to (a coat of arms). | to become larger. | Grammar. a prefixed vowel or a lengthening of the initial vowel that characterizes certain forms in the nonpresent inflection of verbs in Greek, Sanskrit, Armenian, and Phrygian. | to make or become greater in number, amount, strength, etc; increase | (transitive) (music) to increase (a major or perfect interval) by a semitone Compare diminish (sense 3) | (transitive) (in Greek and Sanskrit grammar) to prefix a vowel or diphthong to (a verb) to form a past tense | (in Greek and Sanskrit grammar) a vowel or diphthong prefixed to a verb to form a past tenseComplacent
pleased, especially with oneself or one’s merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: The voters are too complacent to change the government. | pleasant; complaisant. | pleased or satisfied, esp extremely self-satisfied | an obsolete word for complaisant
Droll
amusing in an odd way; whimsically humorous; waggish. | a droll person; jester; wag. | Archaic. to jest; joke. | amusing in a quaint or odd manner; comical
Galleon
a large sailing vessel of the 15th to the 17th centuries used as a fighting or merchant ship, square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and generally lateen-rigged on one or two after masts. | (nautical) a large sailing ship having three or more masts, lateen-rigged on the after masts and square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast, used as a warship or trader from the 15th to the 18th centuries
Intermittent
stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again: an intermittent pain. | alternately functioning and not functioning or alternately functioning properly and improperly. | (of streams, lakes, or springs) recurrent; showing water only part of the time. | occurring occasionally or at regular or irregular intervals; periodic
Mitigate
to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate. | to make less severe: to mitigate a punishment. | to make (a person, one’s state of mind, disposition, etc.) milder or more gentle; mollify; appease. | to become milder; lessen in severity. | to make or become less severe or harsh; moderate
Perfidy
deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished. | an act or instance of faithlessness or treachery. | a perfidious act
Quandary
a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma. | a situation or circumstance that presents problems difficult to solve; predicament; dilemma
Stifle
to quell, crush, or end by force: to stifle a revolt; to stifle free expression. | to suppress, curb, or withhold: to stifle a yawn. | to kill by impeding respiration; smother. | to suffer from difficulty in breathing, as in a close atmosphere. | to become stifled or suffocated. | (in a horse or other quadruped) the joint between the femur and the tibia, corresponding anatomically to the human knee. | (transitive) to smother or suppress: stifle a cough | to feel or cause to feel discomfort and difficulty in breathing | to prevent or be prevented from breathing so as to cause death | (transitive) to crush or stamp out
Virulent
actively poisonous; intensely noxious: a virulent insect bite. | Medicine/Medical. highly infective; malignant or deadly. | Bacteriology. causing clinical symptoms. | violently or spitefully hostile. | intensely bitter, spiteful, or malicious: a virulent attack. | (of a microorganism) extremely infective
(of a disease) having a rapid course and violent effect | extremely poisonous, injurious, etc | extremely bitter, hostile, etc
Auspicious
promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion. | favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate. | favourable or propitious | (archaic) prosperous or fortunate
Compliant
complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature. | manufactured or produced in accordance with a specified body of rules (usually used in combination): Energy Star-compliant computers. | complying, obliging, or yielding
Drone
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey. | an unmanned aircraft or ship that can navigate autonomously, without human control or beyond line of sight: the GPS of a U.S. spy drone.
(loosely) any unmanned aircraft or ship that is guided remotely: a radio-controlled drone. | a person who lives on the labor of others; parasitic loafer. | a drudge. | to make a dull, continued, low, monotonous sound; hum; buzz. | to speak in a monotonous tone. | to proceed in a dull, monotonous manner (usually followed by on): The meeting droned on for hours. | to say in a dull, monotonous tone. | Music.
a continuous low tone produced by the bass pipes or bass strings of musical instruments.
the pipes (especially of the bagpipe) or strings producing this tone.
a bagpipe equipped with such pipes. | a monotonous low tone; humming or buzzing sound.
Gambol
to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic. | a skipping or frisking about; frolic. | (intransitive) to skip or jump about in a playful manner; frolic | a playful antic; frolic
Intransigence
the state or quality of being intransigent, or refusing to compromise or agree; inflexibility: No agreement was reached because of intransigence on both sides.
Modicum
a moderate or small amount: He hasn’t even a modicum of common sense. | a small amount or portion
Perfunctory
performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy. | lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent or apathetic: In his lectures he reveals himself to be merely a perfunctory speaker. | done superficially, only as a matter of routine; careless or cursory | dull or indifferent
Quarantine
a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease. | a period, originally 40 days, of detention or isolation imposed upon ships, persons, animals, or plants on arrival at a port or place, when suspected of carrying some infectious or contagious disease. | a system of measures maintained by governmental authority at ports, frontiers, etc., for preventing the spread of disease. | the branch of the governmental service concerned with such measures. | a place or station at which such measures are carried out, as a special port or dock where ships are detained. | the detention or isolation enforced. | the place, especially a hospital, where people are detained. | a period of 40 days. | social, political, or economic isolation imposed as a punishment, as in ostracizing an individual or enforcing sanctions against a foreign state. | to put in or subject to quarantine.
Stoic
of or pertaining to the school of philosophy founded by Zeno, who taught that people should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity. | (lowercase) stoical. | a member or adherent of the Stoic school of philosophy. | (lowercase) a person who maintains or affects the mental attitude advocated by the Stoics. | a person who maintains stoical qualities | a variant of stoical | a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium, holding that virtue and happiness can be attained only by submission to destiny and the natural law | of or relating to the doctrines of the Stoics
Vital
of or pertaining to life: vital processes. | having remarkable energy, liveliness, or force of personality: a vital leader. | being the seat or source of life: the vital organs. | necessary to life: vital fluids. | necessary to the existence, continuance, or well-being of something; indispensable; essential: vital for a healthy society. | affecting the existence, well-being, truth, etc., of something: a vital error. | of critical importance: vital decisions. | destructive to life; deadly: a vital wound. | those bodily organs that are essential to life, as the brain, heart, liver, lungs, and stomach. | the essential parts of something: the vitals of a democracy.
Austere
severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher. | rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent: the austere quality of life in the convent. | grave; sober; solemn; serious: an austere manner. | without excess, luxury, or ease; simple; limited; severe: an austere life. | severely simple; without ornament: austere writing. | lacking softness; hard: an austere bed of straw. | rough to the taste; sour or harsh in flavor. | stern or severe in attitude or manner: an austere schoolmaster | grave, sober, or serious: an austere expression | self-disciplined, abstemious, or ascetic: an austere life
Concatenate
to link together; unite in a series or chain. | linked together, as in a chain. | (transitive) to link or join together, esp in a chain or series | linked or joined together
Dubious
doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt: a dubious reply. | of doubtful quality or propriety; questionable: a dubious compliment; a dubious transaction. | of uncertain outcome: in dubious battle. | wavering or hesitating in opinion; inclined to doubt. | marked by or causing doubt: a dubious reply | unsettled in mind; uncertain; doubtful | of doubtful quality; untrustworthy: a dubious reputation | not certain in outcome
Garble
to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble: to garble instructions. | to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.); distort: to garble a quotation. | Archaic. to take out the best of. | the act or process of garbling. | an instance of garbling; a garbled phrase, literary passage, etc. | to jumble (a story, quotation, etc), esp unintentionally | to distort the meaning of (an account, text, etc), as by making misleading omissions; corrupt | (rare) to select the best part of | the act of garbling
garbled matter |
Intransigent
refusing to agree or compromise; uncompromising; inflexible. | a person who refuses to agree or compromise, as in politics. | not willing to compromise; obstinately maintaining an attitude | an intransigent person, esp in politics
Momentous
of great or far-reaching importance or consequence: a momentous day. | of great significance
Peripatetic
walking or traveling about; itinerant. | (initial capital letter) of or pertaining to Aristotle, who taught philosophy while walking in the Lyceum of ancient Athens. | (initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the Aristotelian school of philosophy. | a person who walks or travels about. | (initial capital letter) a member of the Aristotelian school. | itinerant | (Brit) employed in two or more educational establishments and travelling from one to another: a peripatetic football coach | a peripatetic person | of or relating to the teachings of Aristotle, who used to teach philosophy while walking about the Lyceum in ancient Athens | a student of Aristotelianism
Quarry
an excavation or pit, usually open to the air, from which building stone, slate, or the like, is obtained by cutting, blasting, etc. | an abundant source or supply. | to obtain (stone) from or as if from a quarry. | to make a quarry in. | an animal or bird hunted or pursued. | game, especially game hunted with hounds or hawks. | any object of search, pursuit, or attack. | a square stone or tile. | quarrel2 (def 2). | an open surface excavation for the extraction of building stone, slate, marble, etc, by drilling, blasting, or cutting
Stoke
to poke, stir up, and feed (a fire). | to tend the fire of (a furnace, especially one used with a boiler to generate steam for an engine); supply with fuel. | to shake up the coals of a fire. | to tend a fire or furnace. | a unit of kinematic viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in poises divided by the density of the fluid in grams per cubic centimeter. | to feed, stir, and tend (a fire, furnace, etc) | (transitive) to tend the furnace of; act as a stoker for | the cgs unit of kinematic viscosity, equal to the viscosity of a fluid in poise divided by its density in grams per cubic centimetre. 1 stokes is equivalent to 10–4 square metre per second St
Vitriolic
of, pertaining to, or resembling vitriol. | obtained from vitriol. | very caustic; scathing: vitriolic criticism. | (of a substance, esp a strong acid) highly corrosive | severely bitter or caustic; virulent: vitriolic criticism
Aversion
a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually followed by to): a strong aversion to snakes and spiders. | a cause or object of dislike; person or thing that causes antipathy: His pet aversion is guests who are always late. | Obsolete. the act of averting; a turning away or preventing. | usually foll by to or for. extreme dislike or disinclination; repugnance | a person or thing that arouses this: he is my pet aversion
Concatenation
the act of concatenating. | the state of being concatenated; connection, as in a chain. | a series of interconnected or interdependent things or events. | a series of interconnected events, concepts, etc | the act of linking together or the state of being joined | (logic) a function that forms a single string of symbols from two given strings by placing the second after the first
Dupe
a person who is easily deceived or fooled; gull. | a person who unquestioningly or unwittingly serves a cause or another person: a dupe of the opponents. | to make a dupe of; deceive; delude; trick. | duplicate. | Movies.
a duplicate picture negative used for making additional release prints or for making special effects to be inserted in the release negative.
the procedure for producing such a duplicate. | Television. a duplicate videotape obtained by electronic printing of the original videotape. | to duplicate. | duplicate. | a person who is easily deceived | a person who unwittingly serves as the tool of another person or power
Garish
crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration. | excessively ornate or elaborate, as buildings or writings. | dressed in or ornamented with bright colors. | excessively bright; glaring. | gay or colourful in a crude or vulgar manner; gaudy
Intrepid
resolutely fearless; dauntless: an intrepid explorer. | fearless; daring; bold
Monotonous
lacking in variety; tediously unvarying: the monotonous flat scenery. | characterizing a sound continuing on one note. | having very little inflection; limited to a narrow pitch range. | dull and tedious, esp because of repetition | unvarying in pitch or cadence
Peripheral
pertaining to, situated in, or constituting the periphery : peripheral resistance on the outskirts of the battle area. | concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question. | Anatomy. near the surface or outside of; external. | Computers. of or pertaining to a peripheral. | Computers. a device or unit that operates separately from the CPU but is connected to it, as a magnetic disk or tape unit or a printer. | not relating to the most important part of something; incidental, minor, or superficial | of, relating to, or of the nature of a periphery | (anatomy) of, relating to, or situated near the surface of the body: a peripheral nerve
Querulous
full of complaints; complaining. | characterized by or uttered in complaint; peevish: a querulous tone; constant querulous reminders of things to be done. | inclined to make whining or peevish complaints | characterized by or proceeding from a complaining fretful attitude or disposition: a querulous tone
Stolid
not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive. | showing little or no emotion or interest
Vivacity
the quality or state of being vivacious. | liveliness; animation; sprightliness: a people noted for their vivacity. | a vivacious act or statement. | the quality or condition of being vivacious | (often pl) (rare) a vivacious act or expression
Balk
to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech. | (of a horse, mule, etc.) to stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on. | Baseball. to commit a balk. | to place an obstacle in the way of; hinder; thwart: a sudden reversal that balked her hopes. | Archaic. to let slip; fail to use: to balk an opportunity. | a check or hindrance; defeat; disappointment. | a strip of land left unplowed. | a crossbeam in the roof of a house that unites and supports the rafters; tie beam. | any heavy timber used for building purposes. | Baseball. an illegal motion by a pitcher while one or more runners are on base, as a pitch in which there is either an insufficient or too long a pause after the windup or stretch, a pretended throw to first or third base or to the batter with one foot on the pitcher’s rubber, etc., resulting in a penalty advancing the runner or runners one base.
Conciliate
to overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over: to conciliate an angry competitor. | to win or gain (goodwill, regard, or favor). | to make compatible; reconcile. | to become agreeable or reconciled: Efforts to conciliate in the dispute proved fruitless. | to overcome the hostility of; placate; win over | to win or gain (favour, regard, etc), esp by making friendly overtures | (archaic) to make compatible; reconcile
Dynamic
pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action; vigorously active or forceful; energetic: the dynamic president of the firm. | Physics.
of or pertaining to force or power.
of or pertaining to force related to motion. | pertaining to the science of dynamics. | of or pertaining to the range of volume of musical sound. | Computers. (of data storage, processing, or programming) affected by the passage of time or the presence or absence of power: Dynamic memory must be constantly refreshed to avoid losing data. Dynamic websites contain Web pages that are generated in real time. | Grammar, nonstative. | a basic or dynamic force, especially one that motivates, affects development or stability, etc. | of or concerned with energy or forces that produce motion, as opposed to static | of or concerned with dynamics | Also dynamical. characterized by force of personality, ambition, energy, new ideas, etc
Garner
to gather or deposit in or as if in a granary or other storage place. | to get; acquire; earn: He gradually garnered a national reputation as a financial expert. | to gather, collect, or hoard. | a granary or grain bin. | a store or supply of anything. | John Nance [nans] /næns/ (Show IPA), 1868–1967, vice president of the U.S. 1933–41. | to gather or store in or as if in a granary | an archaic word for granary | (archaic) a place for storage or safekeeping | Erroll. 1921–77, US jazz pianist and composer, noted for the jazz standard ‘Misty’ (1954)
Inveterate
settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler. | firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.; chronic. | long established, esp so as to be deep-rooted or ingrained: an inveterate feeling of hostility | (prenominal) settled or confirmed in a habit or practice, esp a bad one; hardened: an inveterate smoker | (obsolete) full of hatred; hostile
Moratorium
a suspension of activity: a moratorium on the testing of nuclear weapons. | a legally authorized period to delay payment of money due or the performance of some other legal obligation, as in an emergency. | an authorized period of delay or waiting. | a legally authorized postponement of the fulfilment of an obligation | an agreed suspension of activity
Perjury
the willful giving of false testimony under oath or affirmation, before a competent tribunal, upon a point material to a legal inquiry. | (criminal law) the offence committed by a witness in judicial proceedings who, having been lawfully sworn or having affirmed, wilfully gives false evidence
Quirk
a peculiarity of action, behavior, or personality; mannerism: He is full of strange quirks. | a shift, subterfuge, or evasion; quibble. | a sudden twist or turn: He lost his money by a quirk of fate. | a flourish or showy stroke, as in writing. | Architecture.
an acute angle or channel, as one dividing two parts of a molding or one dividing a flush bead from the adjoining surfaces.
an area taken from a larger area, as a room or a plot of ground.
an enclosure for this area. | Obsolete. a clever or witty remark; quip. | formed with a quirk or channel, as a molding. | an individual peculiarity of character; mannerism or foible | an unexpected twist or turn: a quirk of fate | a continuous groove in an architectural moulding
Stratagem
a plan, scheme, or trick for surprising or deceiving an enemy. | any artifice, ruse, or trick devised or used to attain a goal or to gain an advantage over an adversary or competitor: business stratagems. | a plan or trick, esp one to deceive an enemy
Vivify
to give life to; animate; quicken. | to enliven; brighten; sharpen. | to bring to life; animate | to make more vivid or striking
Banal
devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite: a banal and sophomoric treatment of courage on the frontier. | lacking force or originality; trite; commonplace
Concise
expressing or covering much in few words; brief in form but comprehensive in scope; succinct; terse: a concise explanation of the company’s retirement plan. | expressing much in few words; brief and to the point
Ebullient
overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor. | bubbling up like a boiling liquid. | overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement; exuberant | boiling
Garrulous
excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters. | wordy or diffuse: a garrulous and boring speech. | given to constant and frivolous chatter; loquacious; talkative | wordy or diffuse; prolix
Invidious
calculated to create ill will or resentment or give offense; hateful: invidious remarks. | offensively or unfairly discriminating; injurious: invidious comparisons. | causing or tending to cause animosity, resentment, or envy: an invidious honor. | Obsolete, envious. | incurring or tending to arouse resentment, unpopularity, etc: an invidious task | (of comparisons or distinctions) unfairly or offensively discriminating | (obsolete) grudging; envious
Moribund
in a dying state; near death. | on the verge of extinction or termination. | not progressing or advancing; stagnant: a moribund political party. | near death | stagnant; without force or vitality
Pernicious
causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie. | deadly; fatal: a pernicious disease. | Obsolete. evil; wicked. | wicked or malicious: pernicious lies | causing grave harm; deadly
Ramble
to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time. | to take a course with many turns or windings, as a stream or path. | to grow in a random, unsystematic fashion: The vine rambled over the walls and tree trunks. | to talk or write in a discursive, aimless way (usually followed by on): The speaker rambled on with anecdote after anecdote. | to walk aimlessly or idly over or through: They spent the spring afternoon rambling woodland paths. | a walk without a definite route, taken merely for pleasure. | to stroll about freely, as for relaxation, with no particular direction | (of paths, streams, etc) to follow a winding course; meander | (of plants) to grow in a random fashion | (of speech, writing, etc) to lack organization
Strident
making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges. | having a shrill, irritating quality or character: a strident tone in his writings. | Linguistics. (in distinctive feature analysis) characterized acoustically by noise of relatively high intensity, as sibilants, labiodental and uvular fricatives, and most affricates. | (of a shout, voice, etc) having or making a loud or harsh sound | urgent, clamorous, or vociferous: strident demands
Vociferous
crying out noisily; clamorous. | characterized by or uttered with vociferation : a vociferous manner of expression. | characterized by vehemence, clamour, or noisiness: vociferous protests | making an outcry or loud noises; clamorous: a vociferous mob
Banality
the condition or quality of being banal, or devoid of freshness or originality: the banality of everyday life. | an instance of this: We sat around the dinner table exchanging banalities.
Condescend
to behave as if one is conscious of descending from a superior position, rank, or dignity. | to stoop or deign to do something: He would not condescend to misrepresent the facts. | to put aside one’s dignity or superiority voluntarily and assume equality with one regarded as inferior: He condescended to their intellectual level in order to be understood. | Obsolete.
to yield.
to assent. | to act graciously towards another or others regarded as being on a lower level; behave patronizingly | to do something that one regards as below one’s dignity
Eccentric
deviating from the recognized or customary character, practice, etc.; irregular; erratic; peculiar; odd: eccentric conduct; an eccentric person. | Geometry. not having the same center; not concentric: used especially of two circles or spheres at least one of which contains the centers of both. | (of an axis, axle, etc.) not situated in the center. | Machinery. having the axis or support away from the center: an eccentric wheel. | Astronomy. deviating from a circular form, as an elliptic orbit. | a person who has an unusual, peculiar, or odd personality, set of beliefs, or behavior pattern. | something that is unusual, peculiar, or odd. | Machinery. a device for converting circular motion into rectilinear motion, consisting of a disk fixed somewhat off-center to a revolving shaft, and working freely in a surrounding collar (eccentric strap) to which a rod (eccentric rod) is attached. | deviating or departing from convention, esp in a bizarre manner; irregular or odd | situated away from the centre or the axis
Gaunt
extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated. | bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things: a gaunt, windswept landscape. | John of, John of Gaunt. | bony and emaciated in appearance | (of places) bleak or desolate
Inviolable
prohibiting violation; secure from destruction, violence, infringement, or desecration: an inviolable sanctuary; an inviolable promise. | incapable of being violated; incorruptible; unassailable: inviolable secrecy. | that must not or cannot be transgressed, dishonoured, or broken; to be kept sacred: an inviolable oath
Morose
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood. | characterized by or expressing gloom. | ill-tempered or gloomy
Persnickety
overparticular; fussy. | snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob. | requiring painstaking care. | excessively precise and attentive to detail; fussy | (of a task) requiring close attention; exacting | the US word for pernickety
Ramifications
the act or process of ramifying. | a branch: ramifications of a nerve. | a related or derived subject, problem, etc.; outgrowth; consequence; implication: The new tax law proved to have many ramifications unforeseen by the lawmakers. | Botany.
a structure formed of branches.
a configuration of branching parts. | the act or process of ramifying or branching out | an offshoot or subdivision | (often pl) a subsidiary consequence, esp one that complicates | a structure of branching parts
Stringent
rigorously binding or exacting; strict; severe: stringent laws. | compelling, constraining, or urgent: stringent necessity. | convincing or forcible: stringent arguments. | (of the money market) characterized by a shortage in money for loan or investment purposes; tight. | requiring strict attention to rules, procedure, detail, etc | (finance) characterized by or causing a shortage of credit, loan capital, etc
Volatile
evaporating rapidly; passing off readily in the form of vapor: Acetone is a volatile solvent. | tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive: a volatile political situation. | changeable; mercurial; flighty: a volatile disposition. | (of prices, values, etc.) tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly: volatile market conditions. | fleeting; transient: volatile beauty. | Computers. of or pertaining to storage that does not retain data when electrical power is turned off or fails. | able to fly or flying. | a volatile substance, as a gas or solvent. | (of a substance) capable of readily changing from a solid or liquid form to a vapour; having a high vapour pressure and a low boiling point | (of persons) disposed to caprice or inconstancy; fickle; mercurial
