Test Prep 3 Flashcards
Boor
Rude or ill mannered
Saying a boy is poor is rude
Circumspect
Thinking carefully before you do something
Circumspect
Wary and unwilling to take risks
Cloister
Seclude
Close - oyster: if you live in an oyster you will be secluded
Compendium
A collection of things presented together
Confer
To consult together
Conference- to consult together
Conflate
Mistake one thing for the other. Mistake two things for the same thing
Congenial
Friendly
Contrite
Remorseful
Count right (money) or you will regret it
Credulous
Easily believing
Cursory
Done quickly and without attention to detail
Destitute
Penniless
Disaffected
Dissatisfied/ Discontented especially with authority
Dearth
A scarcity or lack of something
Disconcerting
Disturbing
Dynamism
Energy and activity
Exacting
Demanding
Extol
To praise highly
Florid
Overly elaborate
Fodder
Food for animals
Foolhardy
Foolishly bold or adventurous
Galvanize
To stimulate or excite to take action
Goad
Or urge or provoke
Abate
To decrease in strength
Ate- strength, ab means no
Attenuate
To weaken
Deify
To treat as a God
Exorbitant
Unreasonably high
Foolhardy
Foolishly bold or adventurous
Goad
To urge or provoke
Idiosyncrasy
A quirk, a unique characteristic
Imperious
Overbearingly and arrogantly controlling
Impetus
A driving force or motive
Improvidant
Not providing for the future, esp. financially
Incense
Make angry
Inadvertent
unintentional
Indefatigable
Tireless
Indelible
Permanent
In-delete-able: not able to delete
Indiscriminate
Not done or chosen in a careful way
Indolent
Lazy
Inordinate
Excessive, unusually or disproportionally large
Insipid
Uninteresting, unexcitign
Interloper
A person who inserts oneself into a situation which s/he is unwelcome or does not belong
Intractable
Very difficult or impossible to control
Instransigent
Very stubborn
Intrepid
Bold
Itinerant
Traveling from place to place
Irreverent
Lacking proper respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously