Sat List 6 Flashcards
Inordinate
Excessive, unrestrained
Fatuous
Silly, inane
Irascible
Irritable, easily angered
Loquacity
Talkativeness, especially when excessive
Obviate
To dispose of effectively; to anticipate so as to render unnecessary
Pithy
Concise but full of substance and meaning
Provincial
Pertaining to the country; not fashionable or sophisticated, narrow in perspective
Rancor
ill will, spite, malice
Supercilious
Proud, disdainful
Truculent
Quarrelsome, belligerent, harsh, scathing
Abrogate
To abolish, to rescind
Adamant
Inflexible, unyielding
Avarice
Greed
Bucolic
Rustic, pastoral
Circuitous
Indirect, roundabout
Cupidity
Greed, avarice
Debacle
Defeat, total collapse or failure
Denigrate
To disparage or blacken the character of
Dissemble
To pretend, to feign
Enmity
Hostility, ill will