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.”
