Semester 1 Flashcards
Ardently
Very enthusiastic and showing strong feelings about something/someone
Ascertaining
Finding out the true or correct information about something
Benevolently
Doing something/acting in a kind or helpful way
Conciliating
Friendly and kind in manner or way of being
Commencement
Beginning
Countenance
A person’s face or expression
Dauntless
Not easily frightened or stopped from doing something
Desolation
A place empty and without people
Diffusing
Something being spread out or spread in many directions
Enticements
Something that you offer to somebody in order to persuade them to go somewhere or do something
Entreated/Intreated
To ask somebody to do something in a serious and often emotional way
Forebodings
Strong feelings that something unpleasant or dangerous is going to happen
Inexorable
Something/someone that cannot be stopped or changed
Inuring
To make somebody/yourself get used to something unpleasant so that they/you are no longer strongly affected by it
Niche
A comfortable or suitable job, role, way of life, etc.
Perpetual
Continuing for a long period of time without stopping or being interrupted
Trifling
Small and not important
Asylum
A shelter from danger or hardship
Avidity
A positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something
Benevolence
Being kind, helpful, and generous
Cordial
Polite, warm, and friendly
Dogmatism
Stating opinions in a strong way and not accepting anyone else’s opinions
Filial
Meaning the generation following the parent’s generation
Inclemency
Unpleasant weather, especially cold and rainy
Lineaments
Any of the features of the body, usually of the face (especially with regard to its outline)
Mien
A person’s appearance, manner, or demeanor
Pedantry
Paying too much attention to small details or rules
Pertinacity
Determined to achieve a particular aim despite difficulties or opposition
Preposess
To influence in advance for or against a person
Recompensing
To do something for somebody to give them a payment for something that they have suffered
Repugnance
A very strong feeling of dislike for something
Unremitting
Never stopping
Adduced
To give reasons why you think something is true
Dilatoriness
Lateness or delay in coming
Docile
Quiet, not aggressive, and easily controlled
Exculpated
To remove blame for someone
Ingonimious
Deserving blame or shame, bringing blame or shame
Perambulations
Slow walks or journeys around a place (especially those for fun)
Prognosticate
Make a prediction about, tell in advance
Salubrious
Clean and healthy
Ascend
To rise, to go up, to climb
Barbarous
Inflicting pain or suffering
Disoluble
Dissolved or disintegrated
Enigmatic
Mysterious or difficult to understand
Impervious
Not affected or influenced by something
Incommoded
Caused difficulties or problems for someone
Luxuriant
Produced or growing thickly and strongly
Multiplicity
A great number and variety of something
Opaque
Not clear enough to see through or allow light through
Pensive
Thinking deeply about something, especially because you are sad or worried
Perpendicularity
Uprightness
Plaited
To twist three or more long pieces of hair, rope, etc. together to make one long piece
Precipitous
Very steep, high and often dangerous
Purloined
To steal something or use it without permission
Scion
A descendant or heir; younger member of family
Tenets
Basic principles or beliefs that are accepted as true
Uncouth
Rude or socially unacceptable
Venerable
A person or thing deserving of respect because they are old, important, wise, etc.
Zeal
Having great energy or enthusiasm connected with something that you feel strongly about
