Sentence Equivalent Flashcards
Decorous
- proper or appropriate behavior
- poised
Inveterate
Settled in habit, practice or feeling
Timorous
Fearful or timid
Cower
- to frighten with violence and threats
- intimidate
Turgid
Inflated or bombastic
Oscillation
Fluctuation
Repatriate
To send back to one’s country
Extradite
To give up to another nation/state at its request
Interdict
Prohibit
Penury
- extreme poverty
- destitution
- indigence
Depravity
- to make morally bad
- corrupt
Complacency
Calm and satisfied
Innocuous
Harmless
Pernicious
- deadly and fatal
- harmful
- deleterious
Parsimony
Stinginess
Ignobility
WITHOUT nobility
Antipathy
Instinctive opposition in feeling
Probity
Good behavior
Predilection
- tendency to favor
- partiality
- preference
Extirpate
To destroy completely
Covenant
Agreement
Augury
Practice of omen/indication/token
Polemical
Controversial
Exasperate
To upset
Didactic
Intended to teach
Laudatory
Praising attitude
Hubris
Arrogance
Sordid
- morally ignoble
- vile
- filthy
Derision
Ridicule, mockery
Languish
- to become weak or feeble
- to lose vigor
Ardent
- passionate
- intensely devoted
Deprecate
- to express disapproval of
- to protest against
Defer
To put off action, delay
Consolidate
- unite, combine
- to discard unused/unwanted items and reorganize the remaining
Accede
- assent/agree to a demand/request
- assume an office/position
Arbitrary
Based on RANDOM choice or personal whim
Equitable
Fair and impartial; indifferent
Pandemic
Disease prevalent over the whole country or world
