Test 2 Flashcards
Apathy
Lack of energy or interest
Autonomy
Self-government
Benevolent
Kindly
Blanched
Turned pale
Bolster
Give support to
Bucolic
Concerned with the countryside and farming
Callous
Cruel and unfeeling
Cantankerous
Bad tempered
Chicanery
Trickery; attempt to deceive
Churlish
ill-mannered
Cohesive
Forming a whole; ‘sticking’ together
Concur
Agree
Decimation
Extensive destruction
Deft
Skillful
Delinquency
Wrong-doing
Depravity
Moral Corruption
Desolate
Lonely; devoid of life; feeling very sad and hopeless
Devoid of
Empty of
Didactic
Intending to teach or give instructions
Disingenous
Crafty
Disposition
Tendency; personality
Dissent
Disagreement
Effusive
Overly expressive of emotions; ‘gushing’
Endorse
Support
Enigma
Puzzle
Enumerate
Count out; list
Ephemeral
Short-lived
Erroneous
Wrong
Erudition
Great knowledge or learning
Esoteric
Obscure
Fabrication
Something made up; Untrue
Facetious
Cheeky; not to be taken seriously
Factions
Sides in a dispute; group with common interests
Flotsam
Floating rubbish
Fostered
Encouraged
Hackneyed
Stale and over-used
Habored
held “as in harbor an idea”
Hodgepodge
Strange mixture
Impetuous
Impulsive
Implacable
Cannot be appeased; relenetless
Impugned
Challenged; attacked in words
Incorrigible
Cannot be corrected (of behaviour)
Indigenous
Native to a particular place
Ineffable
Cannot be expressed in words
Irascible
Easily angered
Ironic
Unexpected
Languid
Having no energy or interest
Lassitude
Lack of energy
Lugubrious
Mournful; very sad
Mercurial
Rapidly changing
Misnomer
Wrong name for something
Mollified
Calmed; Pacified
Mundane
Dull; ordinary
Omnipotent
All powerful
Pedagogy
Science of Teaching
Phlegmatic
Calm
Plausible
Believable
Precursor
Fore-runner; earlier version
Preeminence
Fame; top position
Pretentious
putting on an act
Prognosis
Outlook
Prolific
Productive
Raiment
Clothes; Garments
Reciprocate
Pay back
Remiss
Wrong
Remonstrance
Criticism
Resilient
Able to spring back; strong
Retrenchment
Reducing staff or forces; conserving resources
Robust
firm and strong
Skeptical
Doubtful
Skewed
Bent; distorted
Succint
Short and well expressed
Sundry
miscellaneous
Sustenance
support; food
Tenable
Can be held (of an opinion, for example)
Tenuous
Shaky; not firm
Torrid
Hot and steamy
Undermine
Attempt to overthrow; weaken
Underscore
Emphasize
Unequivocal
Clear; cannot be misunderstood
Vector
Carrier (of disease, for example)
Verbose
Wordy
Whimsical
Fickle; changeable
Wistful
Full of sadness and longing