Starting/Ending Flashcards
To burgeon - intransitive, burgeoning.
To begin to grow or increase rapidly, to flourish; to bud.
“Manufacturers are keen to cash in on the burgeoning demand.”
To be callow, callowness, callowly.
Of a young person: inexperienced and immature.
“Earnest and callow undergraduates.”
Inchoate, inchoateness, inchoately.
Not fully formed or developed, rudimentary; confused or incoherent.
“A still inchoate democracy.”
“An inchoate proletarian protest.”
Incipient.
Beginning to happen or develop; of a person: developing into a specified type or role.
“He could feel incipient anger building up.”
“We seemed more like friends than incipient lovers.”
Nascent.
Especially of a process or organization: just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential.
“The nascent space industry.”
To degenerate - intransitive, a degenerate, degenerate, degenerately.
To decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally.
Noun: An immoral or corrupt person.
Adjective: Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.
“The debate degenerated into a brawl.”
“What kind of a psychopathic degenerate would do it?”
“A degenerate form of a higher civilization.”
To deteriorate - intransitive, deteriorative.
To become progressively worse.
“Relations between the countries had deteriorated sharply.”
“A deteriorative effect on economic performance.”
To expire - intransitive, expiring.
Of a document: you know it; of a time: to come to an end; of a person: to die; to exhale air from the lungs - transitive.
To fade - intransitive, fade (U), faded, fading.
To gradually grow faint and disappear; to lose or cause to lose colour or brightness; of a flower: lose freshness and wither; of a racehorse, runner, etc: to lose strength and cease to perform well.
Noun: The process of becoming less bright.
“The light had faded and dusk was advancing.”
“His fair hair had faded to a dusty grey.”
“She faded near the finish.”
“The sun can cause colour fade.”
Moribund, moribundity.
Of a person: at the point of death; of a thing: in terminal decline, lacking vitality or vigour.
“On examination she was moribund and dehydrated.”
“The moribund commercial property market.”
Obsolete
You know the meaning.
To sprout, to sprout up, a sprout.
Of a plant: to put out shoots - intransitive; of plant shoot or hair: to grow or start to grow, to spring up; to appear or develop suddenly and in large quantity.
“The weeds begin to sprout.”
“Many black cats sprout a few white hairs.”
“With the first rains, leaves sprout on trees.”
“New hotels are sprouting up everywhere.”
To fledge, fledged, unfledged.
Of a young bird: to develop wing feathers that are large enough for flight; to bring up a young bird until its wing feathers are developed enough for flight.
“The young fledge around four weeks after hatching.”
“They fledged twenty-four chicks in fourteen months.”
Raw
New to an activity or job and therefore lacking experience or skill; of food: not cooked; of data: not analysed; of an emotion or quality: strong and undisguised; of a person’s nerves: very sensitive; frank and realistic in the depiction of unpleasant situations; of the weather: cold and damp.
“They were replaced by raw recruits.”
“Raw eggs.”
“Raw data.”
“The event is expected to be a supercharged night of high emotion and raw nostalgia.”
“I was surprised and amused that my letter should have hit such a raw nerve with Mrs Jones.”
“A raw, uncompromising portrait.”
“A raw February night.”
Childish, childishness.
Of, like, or appropriate to a child; silly and immature.
“One of the guys is obviously the artist, and he is jovial, almost childish in his delight.”
“A childish outburst.”
Green.
Immature, inexperienced; vigorous, not faded; envious or jealous; unhealthily pale in appearance.
“A green recruit fresh from college.”
“A green old age.”
“Are you all right? You look absolutely green”
Inceptive
Marking the beginning of something, initial.
“The inceptive period of the program.”
To fade away.
Of a person: to gradually become thin and weak, especially to the point of death.
“Without help, those of us who are ill will surely fade away and die.”
“The noise faded away.”
