Set 3 Flashcards
Acumen
Keen, accurate judgement or insight
Aver
To state as a fact; to declare or assert
Endemic
Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people
Evanescent
Tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing
Fervent (fervor)
Greatly emotional or zealous
Germane
Relevant to the subject at hand, appropriate in subject manner
Halcyon
Calm and peaceful
Hedonism
Devotion to pleasurable pursuits especially to the pleasures of the senses
Hegemony
The consistent dominance of ones state of ideology over others
Idolatrous (idolatry)
Given to intense or excessive devotion to something
Impassive
Revealing no emotion
Impunity
Immunity from punishment or penalty
Inchoate
In a initial stage/ not fully formed
Infelicitious
Unfortunate; inappropriate
Mendacity (mendacious)
Untruthful
Opprobrium
Disgrace; contempt; scorn
Pedagogy
The profession or principles of teaching or instructing
Penury
Poverty or destitution
Pine
To yearn for something
Pirate
To illegally use or reproduce
Pith
The essential or central part
Pithy
Precise and brief
Prodigal
Recklessly wasteful extravagant or lavish
Profuse
Given and coming forth abundantly; extravagant
Rancorous (rancor)
Characterized by bitter, long laying resentment
Rhetoric
The art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
Solvent
Able to meet financial obligations or able to dissolve another substance
Specious
Seeming true but actually being fallacious
Spurious
False
Surfeit
An over abundant supply
Tenuous
Having little substance or strength
