Test Words 5 Flashcards
Malaise
Feeling of discomfort
Egalitarian
Based on belief that all people are equal and deserve equal rights
Proffered
Hold out or put forward to someone for acceptance
Purporting
Appear to be or do something falsely
Fecund
Producing many new ideas
Pithy
Having substance and a point
Temerity
Self confidence
Vicissitudes
Change in circumstance or fortune
Apotheosis
Idealization of something, Highest point
Despondent
Without hope
Ebullient
Chatting lively, talkative
Dysphoric
Very unhappy, uneasy or dissatisfied
Superfluity
An extreme excess
Pellucid
Clear, easily understood
Agog
Very eager or curious to hear or see something
Debonair
Stylish, Confident and Charming
Obdurate
Stubborn
Munificient
Extreme generosity
Stonewall
Resist intentionally
Vanguard
A group of people leading the way
Assiduity
Constant attention to what one is doing
Caprice
Sudden unknown change in mood
Loath
reluctant
Loathe
Disgust
Contrivance
Scheme. The use of skill to create something, expecially with the consequent effect of artificiality
Unassailable
Unable to be questioned or defeated
Pervasiveness
Spreading widely throughout a group of people
Maladroit
Clumsy
Disabuse
Correct a persons false notion
Debase
lower ones dignity
Notwithstanding
In spite of, despite
Thoroughgoing
Pay attention to every detail
Legion
A vast number of people or things
Denouement
The final part of a play or film, in which the plot is drawn out
Interminable
Unable to stop, never ending
Belie
to disguise, misleading
Adroitly
In a very skillful way, Opposite of maladroit
Canards
Unfounded rumour or story
Dispatch
Send away with speed and swiftness
Percolating
Filter gradually through a porous surface or substance
Contrapuntal
In counterpoint
Impute
Attribute, Represent something undesirable, as being possessed by someone
Sobriquet
A persons nickname
Bristle
Stand upright away from the skin, in anger or fear
Prolixity
Using too many word, boring
Vituperative
Bitterness & anger
Screed
A long speech or writing, typically tedious
Primacy
The fact of being pre-eminent or most important
Adjudicate
Make a formal judgement on a disputed matter
Couched
Express in a language of a specified style, lay down