Unit 1 Flashcards
Adjunct
Something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper; a valuable quality or characteristic; added or connected in a subordinate capacity; attached to a faculty or staff in an auxiliary capacity
Bellwether
The male sheep that leases the flock to the slaughterhouse; a leader, as in a desperate or violent undertaking; an indicator of trends
Caterwaul
To howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel; a harsh or noisy cry; racket
Chimerical
Absurd; wildly fantastic; impossible
Effete
Lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; worn out or exhausted; sterile or unable to produce; out of date
Fait accompli
An accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action
Hidebound
Narrow minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudice; stubbornly and unthinkingly conservative
Hierarchy
Any system of things or people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class
Laissez-faire
A philosophy or practice characterized by usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference, especially with individual freedom of choice and action
Liturgy
A religious service or rite; the form of a ritual or other act of public worship
Morass
A patch of low, soft, wet ground; a swamp; a confusing situation in which one is entrapped, as in quicksand
Noisome
Offensive or disgusting; foul smelling; harmful or injurious
Oblivious
Forgetful; unaware
Poltroon
A base coward
Proselyte
A convert; a disciple
