Top 20 Words Flashcards
Adulterate
Impure, cheapened in quality or purity
Apathy
Absence of emotion or passion
Audacious
Daring, bold, risk taking OR impudent, presumptuous, impertinent
Capricious
Highly changing
Corroborate
Confirm, support
Desiccate
Dry out
Engender
Cause, give rise to, create
Ephemeral
Temporary, fleeting, transient, short-lived
Gullible
Credulous, naive, trusting, easily convinced
Homogenous
Alike, uniform, consistent
Laudable
Commendable, admirable, praiseworthy
Loquacious
Talkative, chatty
Mitigate
Lessen, reduce, diminish, alleviate, make less severe
Pendant
Hanging downward (adj), hanging ornament (n); an artistic, literary, or musical composition intended to match or complement another
Pragmatic
Practical, sensible
Propriety
conformity to established/conventional good standards, suitability, rightness, justness, decency, respectability (not to be confused to proprietary: relating to owner or ownership)
Vacillate
Waver, hesitate, fluctuate, stagger, indecisive
Volatile
liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse; unstable, unpredictable, uncomfortable, charged; easily evaporated at normal temperatures (substance)
Abstain
Refrain from doing something, esp something enjoyable