Set 2 Flashcards
Adulation
Excessive praise; intense adoration
Ascetic
One who practices rigid self-denial especially as an act of religious devotion
Avarice (avaricious)
Greed especially for wealth
Axiom
A universally recognized principle
Burgeon
To grow rapidly or flourish
Bucolic
Rustic or pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
Canon
An established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature
Caustic
Burning or stinging; causing corrosion
Chary
Wary, causing, sparing
Cogent
Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
Complaisance
The willingness to comply with the wishes of others
Contentious
Argumentative, quarrelsome, causing controversy or disagreement
Contrite
Regretful, penitent, seeking forgiveness
Culpable
Deserving blame
Dearth
Smallness of quantity or number, scarcity or a lack
Discretion
Causing reserve in speech, ability to make responsible decisions
Disinterested
Free or Bias, self-interest, impartial
Ebullience
The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
Emollient
Soothing especially to the skin/ making something less harsh/ mollifying
Empirical
Based on observation or experiment
Furtive
Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
Heretical
Violating accepted dogma or conventions
Incipient
Beginning to come into being or to become apparent
Inveigle
To obtain by deception or flattery
Penurious
Penny pinching, excessively thrifty, ugenerous
Pernicious
Extremely harmful, potentially causing death
Pious
Extremely reverent or devout. Showing strong religious devotion
Preen
To dress up, to primp, to groom oneself with elaborate care
Quaff
To drink deeply
Redoubtable
Awe-inspiring, worthy of honor
Sanction
Authoritative permission or approval, a penalty intended to enforce compliance, to give permission or authority to
Squalid
Sordid, wretched and dirty as from neglect
Supplant
To take the place of, supersede
Torpid (torpor)
Lethargic
Urbane
Sophisticated
Vilify
To defame, to characterize harshly
