TC_SE_practice_words_3 Flashcards
coerce
verb: to persuade someone forcefully to do something that they are unwilling to do:
example: The court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.
discredit
verb: to cause people to stop respecting someone or believing in an idea or person:
example: Evidence of links with drug dealers has discredited the mayor.
intimidate
verb: to frighten or threaten someone, usually in order to persuade them to do something that you want them to do:
example: They were intimidated into accepting a pay cut by the threat of losing their jobs.
mettlesome
Mettlesome means full of spirit, courage, or determination.
lackluster
adj: without energy and effort:
example: The U.S. number-one tennis player gave a disappointingly lackluster performance.
domestic
adj: relating to a person’s own country:
adj: belonging or relating to the home, house, or family:
noun: a fight or attack that happens in a home between people who know each other:
intrigue
verb: to interest someone a lot, especially by being strange, unusual, or mysterious:
example: Throughout history, people have been intrigued by the question of whether there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.
loquacity
noun: the fact of talking a lot:
example: Despite his loquacity, he had a lot of secrets.
guile
noun: Guile is the quality of being good at deceiving people in a clever way.
example: I love children’s innocence and lack of guile.
poised
adj: If a part of your body is poised, it is completely still but ready to move at any moment.
example: He studied the keyboard carefully, one finger poised.
adj: If someone is poised to do something, they are ready to take action at any moment.
example: U.S. forces are poised for a massive air, land and sea assault.
adj: If you are poised, you are calm, dignified, and self-controlled.
example: She was self-assured, poised, almost self-satisfied.
enigmatic
adj: mysterious and impossible to understand completely:
example:
- The Mona Lisa has a famously enigmatic smile.
- He left an enigmatic message on my answering machine.
univocal
Univocal means having only one possible meaning; clear and unambiguous.
momentous
adj: If you refer to a decision, event, or change as momentous, you mean that it is very important, often because of the effects that it will have in the future.
example: …the momentous decision to send in the troops.
multifaceted
adj: having many different parts or sides:
example: It’s a multifaceted business, offering a range of services.
interplay
noun: the effect that two or more things have on each other:
throwback
noun: a person or thing that is similar to an earlier type:
example: This year’s styles are throwbacks to the fashions of the 1940s.
impassivity
noun: the quality of not expressing emotion or of not reacting to a situation:
example: He is a bookish man of extreme impassivity.
personification
noun: a person who is a perfect example of something:
example: She played a character who was the personification of evil.
noun: the act of giving a human quality or characteristic to something which is not human, or an example of this:
example: In the scriptures, there is a very strong personification of wisdom as feminine.
salvation
noun: (a way of) being saved from danger, loss, or harm:
example: After the diagnosis, getting to know Mary was his salvation.
inured
If you become inured to something unpleasant, you become familiar with it and able to accept and bear it:
example: After spending some time on the island they became inured to the hardships.
caprice
noun: (the quality of often having) a sudden and usually silly wish to have or do something, or a sudden and silly change of mind or behaviour:
example: The $300 million palace was built to satisfy the caprice of one man.
encumber
verb: to weigh someone or something down, or to make it difficult for someone to do something:
example: Today, thankfully, women tennis players are not encumbered with/by long, heavy skirts and high-necked blouses.
resuscitate
verb: to bring someone or something back to life or wake someone or something:
example: Her heart had stopped, but the doctors successfully resuscitated her.
exterminate
verb: to kill all the animals or people in a particular place or of a particular type:
example: Once cockroaches get into a building, it’s very difficult to exterminate them.
