Unit 2 Flashcards
Antics (n.pl)
Ridiculous and unpredictable behavior or actions
S:shenanigans
Avowed (adj. part)
Declared openly and without shame, acknowledged
S: sworn
Banter (v)
To exchange playful remarks, tease
Banter (n)
Talk that is playful and teasing
S: chitchat
Bountiful (adj)
Giving freely, generous; plentiful, given abundantly
S:abuntent
Congested (adj. part)
Overcrowded, filled or occupied to excess
S:packed
Determinet (n)
Harm or loss; in injury, damage; a disadvantage; a cause of harm, injury, loss or damage
S:hindrance
Durable (adj)
Sturdy, not easily worn out or destroyed; lasting for a long time
S: long-lasting
Durable (n.pl)
consumer goods used repeatedly over a series of years
Enterprising (adj)
energetic, willing and able to start something new; showing boldness and imagination
S:vigorous
Frugal (adj)
economical, avoiding waste and luxury; scanty, poor, meager
S:thrifty
Gingerly (adj. adverb)
with extreme care or caution
S: cautionly
Glut (v)
to provide more than is needed or wanted; to feed or fill to the point of overstuffing;
S: flood
Incognito (adj, adv)
in a disguised state, under an assumed name or identity
Invalidate (v)
to make valueless, take away all force or effect
S: cancle
Lengendary (adj)
described in well-known stories; existing in old stories (legends) rather than in real life
S: mythical
Maim (v)
to cripple, disable, injure, mar, disfigure, mutilate
Minimize (v)
to make as small as possible, make the least of; to make smaller than before
S: belittle
Oblique (adj)
slanting or sloping; not straightforward or direct
S: diagonal
Veer (v)
to change direction or course suddenly, turn aside, shift, swerve
Venerate (v)
to regard with reverence, look up to with great respect
reckless; heartless, unjustifiable; loose in morals
S: Malicois
Wanton (n)
a spoiled, pampered person; one with low morals
