Top 100 Level 5 Flashcards
Charismatic
Full of personal charm and magnetism
Ineffable
- Hard to express
- Difficult to put into words
Lugubrious
- expressing the grief and sorrow associated with an irreparable loss
- mournful, gloomy
Elucidate
- to make clear by explanation
- clarify
Conundrum
-a puzzling question or problem that is difficult to resolve
Pernicious
Causing harm in a hidden or injurious way
Incredulous
- not willing to believe
- unbelieving
Pantheon
- a select group of illustrious people who have done the same thing
- Henry Ford, Walt Disney, and Steve Jobs form a pantheon of inventors and entrepreneurs
Chagrin
-strong feelings of embarrassment and mortification caused by a failure or keen disappointment
Inimical
-injurious
-harmful in effect
(Smoking is inimical to your health)
Refractory
- obstinately resistant to authority or control
- unmanageable and unruly
Disconcerted
Describes a condition of being unsettled and thrown into a state of confusion
Conciliatory
- Describes an approach that is flexible and yielding
- willing to make concessions to restore harmony
Precipitate
-to cause to happen especially suddenly or prematurely
Confluence
- a merger or coming together of several factors
- flowing together
Phelegmatic
- sluggish
- lethargic and thus not easily aroused into action
Seminal
-highly influential in an original way
Contentious
- always ready to argue or provoke a dispute
- quarrelsome
Ruminate
- To think deeply about a subject
- to relfect
- to contemplate
Harbinger
- a precursor or forerunner
- an indicator that someone or something is approaching
Truncate
- to cut short
- to abbreviate
Indefatigable
-tireless
-filled with an inexhaustible supply of energy
(An indefatigable defender of human rights)
Circumvent
- to cleverly go around or bypass a rule
- to evade and thus avoid
Acquiesce
- to accept passively
- to give your assent to a plan or action without protest
Urbane
- characterized by elegant manners
- discriminating taste and a broad education
Salutary
-beneficial and thus tending to promote physical well being
Volatile
- subject to sudden and violent changes
- unstable
Dilatory
- inclined to waste time and be habitually late
- prone to tardiness
Artifice
- a deceptive maneuver
- a crafty ruse
- a crafty stratagem
Forbearance
-to show great patience or tolerance
Enervate
- to feel mentally and physically weakened
- to lack strength and energy
Squalid
- run-down and foul
- very dirty and wretched
Juxtaposition
-to put to things side by side to show something meaningful
Unequivocal
- admitting no doubt or misunderstanding
- having only one meaning and interpretation
Sqourge
- Something that causes misery, affliction, or destruction
- a bane
Impunity
-freedom from punishment or pain
Implacable
- characterized by a relentless hatred that cannot be appeased
- merciless and unforgiving
Impugn
- to attack or assail with words
- to verbally challenge something as false or wrong
Polemic
-a controversial argument often published as an essay or pamphlet attacking a specific opinion or doctrine
Perfidious
- Characterized by treacherous and deceitful behavior
- traitorous
Cursory
-performed in a hasty and superficial manner without attention to details
Galvanize
- to energize and stir into action
- to arouse
Extemporize
- to perform without preparation
- improvise
Tactiturn
- reserved and not talkative
- laconic
Unambiguous
- clear and precise
- exhibiting no uncertainty
- categorical
Consternation
-a sudden and alarming amazement that results in confusion and dismay
Portend
- to serve as an omen or warning
- to foreshadow danger
Inscrutable
- very hard to figure out
- incomprehensible
Crystallize
-to take a definite form or shape
Puerile
- childish and immature
- callow
Prolifigate
-characterized by squandering(wasting) time and money
Foreboding
-a strong inner feeling or premonition of future misfortune
Irascible
- Easily angered
- prone to outbursts or anger
Indulgent
- characterized by excessive generosity
- overly lenient or tolerant
Pendantic
- characterized by being ostentatious (showy) in displaying one’s knowledge
- bookish
Officious
- describes someone who acts more official than they actually are
- annoyingly meddlesome
Bohemian
- describes a person who is known for unconventional behavior
- a nonconformist
Proscribe
-to forbid or prohibit an activity
Facetious
- cleverly amusing in tone
- not meant to be taken seriously
Punctilious
- strictly attentive to minute details of conduct
- very precise and meticulous
Aplomb
- Poise under pressure
- coolness under strain
Eclectic
- composed of elements drawn from various sources and styles
- diverse
- heterogenous
- multifarious
Bombastic
-marked by pretentious writing or speech that is stilted or unnatural
Credulous
- disposed to believe reports and stories based upon little evidence
- disposed to be overly gullible
Nuance
- a very small difference in color, meaning, or feeling
- a delicate shade of deifference
- a subtle hint or feeling
Dichotomy
-characterized by a division in two parts
Vituperative
- marked by harshly abusive criticism
- scathing
Innuendo
- an indirect and usually negative reference
- an insinuation
Effusive
-gushing with unrestrained enthusiasm
Venal
- marked by a corrupt dealings
- open to bribery
Chicanery
- deception by artful trickery
- subterfuge
Anachronism
-an error in chronology that occurs when a person, event, or object is chronologically out of place
Idiosyncrasy
- a behavior that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
- an eccentricity
Obstreperous
-characterized by loud, unruly behavior and noisy, stubborn defiance
Copious
- large in quantity
- plentiful
- abundant
- voluminous
Watershed
-a historic turning point that marks a momentous change of course
Ubiquidous
- characterized by being everywhere at the same time
- pervasive
Licentious
- characterized by a lack of moral discipline
- especially in sexual conduct
- dissolute
Rectitude
- the quality of great moral integrity and honesty
- probity
Spate
-a large number or amount of something
Soporific
-causing or tending to cause drowsiness or sleepiness
Prodigious
-extraordinarily large in size, amount, or extent
Incongruous
- lacking harmony
- inconsistent or incompatible with something else
Myopic
- shortsighted
- lacking foresight
Apoplectic
- filled with rage
- irate
Edify
-to instruct and enlighten
Acerbic
-characterized by a bitter, cutting tone, caustic
Baleful
- portending evil and harm
- sinister and forbidding
Epitomize
- to embody the essential characteristics of a trait
- go typify
Ephemeral
- brief
- short-lived
- fleeting
Ignominous
-a condition of great public shame, dishonor, and huniliation
Disingenuous
- characterized by giving false appearance of honesty
- deceptive and therefore not straitforward, candid, or frank
Indelible
- impossible to remove, erase, or wash away
- memorable
Equanimity
-emotional calmness and composure in times of stress
Mellifluous
-a sound that is full and sweet and thus pleasing to hear
Ethereal
- very delicate
- airy and light
- exquisitely refined
Bastion
- a stronghold or fortification
- a group or place that defends a way of life
Amalgam
- a blend of different elements
- a mixture
- a synthesis
Entrentched
- solidly established
- dug in
- strongly ingrained
Cupidity
- extreme greed for material wealth
- characterized by avarice
