Standards Flashcards by Jeffrey Pozzi

Act of renunciation.

Self denial.

Hedonic control = abstinence 
Indulgence control = temperance 
As a philosophy = asceticism 
Spending control = austerity 
Action control = resignation

ABNEGATION

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Repeal a law, right or agreement.
(Repudiate, revoke, rescind, overturn, override, overrule, mitigate, negate, invalidate)

Evade a responsibility.

ABROGATE (abrogation)

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Difficulty to understand.

“Those who are OBTUSE will have difficulty ascertaining that which is ABSTRUSE.”

ABSTRUSE

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Brisk and cheerful readiness.

Enthusiasm in response.

ALACRITY

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Walk about from place to place.

AND RELATED:

To walk around something, especially ritualistically. May create concentric circles.

AMBULATE

CIRCUMAMBULATE

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Short story about a incident or person

AND RELATED:

By means of personal account rather than by research.

ANECDOTE

ANECDOTALLY

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Focal length of an opening through which light travels.

APERTURE

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DUBIOUS authenticity.

Unsanctioned, fallacious, spurious

APOCRYPHAL (apocrypha: not genuine writings)

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Secret and mysterious.

ARCANE

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Unreliable

Doubting

DUBIOUS

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False or misleading charge meant to injure someone’s reputation.

ASPERSIONS

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Ability to do something without occupying the mind with low level details (repetition, reiteration, reinforcement).

To become an automatic response pattern or habit.

AUTOMATICITY

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Constant in application or attention.

ASSIDUOUS-LY

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That which is self evident or unquestionable.

AXIOMATIC

Axiom: statement or proposition regarded as established or self evidently true

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Charitably

WHEREAS

BENEFACTION: Conferring a benefit from a BENEFACTOR to BENEFICIARY

AND

MALIGNANCY: Deliberate harm or distress

BENEFICENCE

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Prudent or astute: shrewd, savvy

SAGACITY(OUS): Keen mental awareness or judgment.

CMPR

UNCANNY: Having a supernatural or inexplicable basis

CANNY

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To walk around something - especially ritualistically.

Orbiting like with concentric circles.

CIRCUMAMBULATE

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Regard as belonging to a canon (sanctioned body of work)

Aggrandizement, apotheosize, deify, dignify, ennoble, idolize, laud

CANONIZE (make CANONICAL)

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Wary and unwilling to take risks.

Reluctant, noncommittal, chary, restrained

CIRCUMSPECT

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To merge (often unrelated) ideas together.

CONFLATE

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Anxiety caused by regret for wrongdoing OR hesitation about the rightness of an action.

COMPUNCTION

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A destructive blaze.

Something INFLAMMATORY.

CONFLAGRATION(IVE)

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Disorder and commotion.

A turbulent uprising.

TUMULT-UOUS

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Incitement to insurrection.

SEDITION(OUS)

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Guided by principles. OR Industrial and organized. oCean

CONSCIENTIOUS

Adopt a policy or idea as your own (appropriation or misappropriation) OR Divert for for use in a role other than as originally intended.

CO-OPT

To revoke an order. OR An order revoking a prior order.

COUNTERMAND

Readiness to believe: boarding on gullible or naive. WHEREAS INCREDULOUS: Disbelieving, dubious, unconvinced

CREDULOUS

An insensitive action or statement. OR Without refinement.

CRASS

Showing fearlessness and determination: indomitable, audacious, intrepid, courageous, daring

DAUNTLESS

Division into two mutually-exclusive or antithetical alternatives.

DICHOTOMY(OUS) | Superlative: most DICHOTOMIC

Direct an unequivocal opposition.

ANTITHETICAL (the antithesis)

Intended to teach with a moral instruction as an ulterior motive as its pedagogy. Instructive, doctrinal, pedagogic (manner of teaching) WHEREAS AUTODIDACT: Self taught

DIDACTIC

Serving to separate or divide. Make disjoint.

DISJUNCTIVE

Bookish and pedantic (narrowly, stodgily, and ostentatiously learned)

DONNISH

One who unduly emphasizes minutia in the display of knowledge.

PEDANT-IC-ALLY

Two-faced and deceitful.

DUPLICITY(OUS)

Having traits traditionally considered feminine. CMPR EFFEMINIZE: To make EFFEMINATE

EFFEMINATE

Exhausted or vigor. Fatigued, degenerate, decadent, ANEMIC.

EFFETE

Vivacious and enthusiastic. OR Liquid fizzle.

EFFERVESCENT

Expressing gratitude or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt way.

EFFUSIVE

To make lucid (clear) or divine (discoverable though intuition) through illumination.

ELUCIDATE

Easy to understand (NOT ABSTRUSE) OR Transparently clear.

PELLUCID

Based on observation or experience rather than the application of logic or theory. An A POSTERIORI

EMPIRICAL

Having an internal cause or origin. OPPOSITE Having an external cause or origin.

ENDOGENOUS EXOGENOUS

Depleting of energy or enthusiasm. Fatiguing or disheartening.

ENERVATING

Short-lived or transitory. “The ephemeral joys of childhood.”

EPHEMERAL

Contemplates a possibility or desired future event.

ENVISAGE-D(S)

Theory of knowledge. Investigation to distinguish justified belief from opinion. OPPOSITE Proven to be false; fallacious

EPISTEMOLOGY(ICAL) PSEUDO-LOGIC(AL)

Mental composure in a difficult situation. Poised, levelheaded, self-possessed

EQUANIMITY

Displaying knowledge gained through studying.

ERUDITE(ION)

Understood by a small population with specialized knowledge or interest. Subject may seen ARCANE.

ESOTERIC-ISM

Delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world. Elegant, exquisite, dainty, airy

ETHEREAL (up in the ETHER)

The event of gradually fading from sight. Transitoriness

EVANESCENCE

An exact copy of something.

FACSIMILE

Careful attention to detail. Difficult to please, exacting. Especially scrupulous in matters of taste or propriety.

FASTIDIOUS

Abandoned, deserted Bereft or deprived of hope.

FORLORN

Lack of seriousness, lightheartedness FRIVOLOUS: Without serious purpose or value.

FRIVOLITY

Shock into action OR (Coat with zinc protectively) CMPR TANTALIZE: Torment with the promise of something unobtainable | it BECKONS the EVANESCES away.

GALVANIZE

Wealthy and privileged OR (Thinly covered with gold paint)

GUILDED

Symbol that represents an idea directly, rather than a word or phoneme EXMP: Chinese character, hieroglyphics, trademarks

IDEOGRAM

An adherent of an ideology who is dogmatic and uncompromising (INTRANSIGENT in their belief system) SYN: evangelist (enthusiast advocate), fanatic, crusader, zealot ANT: ICONOCLASTIC (tears down beliefs institutions)

IDEOLOGUE

Lacking in sense, significance, or ideas (bordering on stupid) INANE questions or ideas.

INANE

Imply, hint or ALLUDE to OR Make known ROOT: Intimate - very close association

INTIMATED (or to intimate)

Produce fear and timidity Daunting, forbidding, formidable or frightening

INTIMIDATION

Instill by persistent instruction LIKE BUT more derogatory INDOCTRINATE: To teach to accept a system of beliefs uncritically

INCULCATE

Initial stage; beginning LIKE INCEPTION: Starring point of an institution or activity

INCIPIENT

Lacking in interest, stimulation, or challenge OR Lacking in taste or savor

INSIPID

Persisting tirelessly or unwearyingly

INDEFATIGABLE

Too great to be described in words Indescribable, unspeakable a JE NE SAIS QUOI quality

INEFFABLE

Not producing the desired effect.

INEFFECTUAL

Treat as a child or in a way that denies maturity in age or experience

INFANTILE

Innocent and unsuspecting. ANT DISINGENUOUS: Without candor or sincerity, pretending that one knows less than what they really do

INGENIOUS

Unfriendly, hostile and antagonizing Menacing

INIMICAL

Impact in a negative way LIKE ENCROACH: Intrude on a property OR INFRINGE: Violate a law

IMPINGE

Exempt from punishment or consequence WHEREAS IMMUNITY: Not susceptible to any harm

IMPUNITY

Ignorant or uninterested in ideas outside of one’s own experience Incurious, parochial, provincial, sectarian, xenophobic

INSULAR

Process of understanding An exercise of the intellect; reasoning

INTELLECTION

Refusing to agree or compromise Inflexible

INTRANSIGENT(CE)

Equal divisions of time As a cadence or tempo

ISOCHRONAL

Fond of company; sociable Extroverted

GREGARIOUS

Stimulating sexual desire.

LASCIVIOUS

Inappropriate interest in sex.

SALACIOUS

Offensive desire.

LECHEROUS

Pursuing pleasure, self indulgent. ANT: ABNEGATION: self-denial CMPR: HEDONIC: considered in terms of pleasant or unpleasant sensations.

HEDONISTIC

Emitting light though not caused by heating. CMPR: ILLUMINATE: make comprehensible (or visible) by shedding light on (literally or figuratively)

LUMINESCENT

Light emitted from heating. OR: Passionate or emotional,

INCANDESCENT

A person who inspires or influences in a particular sphere. OR: A light giving body.

LUMINARY

Bungling and clumsy. ANT: ADROIT: Skillful of hand/mind; adept, dexterous, agile, nimble

MALADROIT

Careful and precise with details.

METICULOUS

A small, relatively unimportant, venial sin; minor offense or infraction; a misdemeanor.

PECCADILLO

A statement with a negative, derogatory, or condescending connotation that is intended to disparage or belittle.

PEJORATIVE

With precision and accuse attention to detail. (Not surprising they they are punctual.)

PUNCTILIOUS

Showing knowledge of event before they take place; predictive, prophetic, or clairvoyant.

PRESCIENT

Act of one animal preying on an another. OR: Attacking and plundering.

PREDATION

To base something on. OR: Affirm something about the subject of a proposition.

PREDICATE

Expressing unwarranted or exaggerated importance, worth, or stature.

PRETENTIOUS

Having an excessive interest in inappropriate or sexual matters.

PRURIENT

Do something in a makeshift IMPROMPTU way.

EXTEMPORIZE

Alternations in the course of something. Fluctuations, permutations, switchover, transposition LIKE: UNDULATE: Rise and fall in a wavelike manner.

VICISSITUDE

To change the relative position or sequence of an order.

TRANSPOSE

Excessively grasping and covetous. OR RAVENOUS - a rapacious appetite.

RAPACIOUS

Repeated application of a rule or procedure to successive results. MATHEMATICS: Repeated iterations of a calculation to closer approximate the solution.

RECURSIVE(ION)

Not revealing one’s thoughts or emotions. WHEREAS: RELUCTANT: is unwilling, disinclined, circumspect, wary, indisposed to

RETICENT(CE)

Obstinately uncooperative attitude towards authority or discipline.

RECALCITRANT(CE)

Idea, place or routine regarded as too important to be interfered with.

SACROSANCT

Gesture (gesticulating) or utterances (uttering) made as greeting or acknowledgement of another’s arrival or departure.

SALUTATION

Making a showing of being morally superior. Self righteous, pious

SANCTIMONIOUS

Optimistic in the face of adversity. May display APLOMB, composure, or EQUANIMITY.

SANGUINE

Conscientious or exacting. OR: Having principles (scruples)

SCRUPULOUS

Specifically plausible, but actually wrong.

SPECIOUS

Not being what it purports to be. LIKE: APOCRYPHAL

SPURIOUS

Enduring hardship without complaining.

STOIC(ISM)(AL)

Not easily stirred or moved mentally (a mental state). LIKE: impassive, unemotional

STOLID

Restriction on a behavior. OR: A sternly critical or censorious remark.

STRICTURE

Fawning and OBSEQUIOUS (: servile obedience or deference) Someone who make EFFUSIVE compliments. UNCTUOUS: INGRATIATINGLY flattering OR oily

SYCOPHANT(IC)

Joyful ecstasy or delight. OR Carry a person to another sphere of existence.

RAPTURE(OUS)

Characterized by portraying servile obedience or excessive deference.

OBSEQUIOUS(NESS)

To move to and fro in positions, like a pendulum. Move in a PENDULAR motion.

OSCILLATE(ION)

Understood or implied without being stated.

TACIT

The practice of ordering and classifying. Eg: kingdom, phylum (division), class, order, family, genus, species

TAXONOMY

Easy to control (to make tractable). ANT: Difficult to control (an intractable problem)

(IN)TRACTABLE

Stubborn or resistant to stimulus. WHEREAS: REFRACT(ION)(IVE): The ability to change direction of a ray (light, sound, heat) by altering its wave velocity.

REFRACTORY

Any part, division, or installment.

TRANCHE

Lacking in freshness or originality due to overuse. Stale. LIKE: PLATITUDE: flat, dull, trite remark, uttered as if it were profound. PROSAIC(ALLY): lacking poetry, commonplace or dull, unimaginative PEDESTRIAN: lacking in vitality and imagination, uninspired and disenchanted BROMIDE: (chem: salt) a person who is PLATITUDINOUS and boring.

TRITE

Feeling of resentment at some fancied slight or insult. To take...

UMBRAGE

Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging. LIKE: INSIPID: without distinctive qualities (situationally) or bland (as to food)

VAPID

Having merely the appearance or semblance of truth.

VERISIMILITUDE

Friendship; peaceful harmony. LIKE: AMNESTY: to pardon or offer forgiveness. ANT: ENMITY: feeling of hostility, animosity, or antagonism.

AMITY

A tactical maneuver to gain an advantage.

GAMBIT

Sphere of operation or influence. LIKE: GAMUT: entire series or range.

AMBIT

Witty; brilliantly clever.

SCINTILLATING

Badly conceived, made, or carried out.

MISBEGOTTEN

Acting like an uncle; in being kind, patient, and generous to younger people.

AVUNCULAR

Depart in a sudden and secretive way to avoid capture or prosecution.

ABSCOND