Verbal ability 3 Flashcards
Convalescence
time spent recovering from an illness or medical treatment; recuperation.
Damper
a person or thing that has a depressing, subduing, or inhibiting effect.
Lien
a right to keep possession of property belonging to another person until a debt owed by that person is discharged.
Incumbent
- necessary for (someone) as a duty or responsibility.
- the holder of an office or post.
dissipate
(with reference to a feeling or other intangible thing) disappear or cause to disappear.
Labyrinth
a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way; a maze.
Fallow
(of farmland) plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production.
Rejuvenated
having been given new energy or vigor; revitalized.
Caterwauling
make a shrill howling or wailing noise like that of a cat.
indigent
poor; needy.
Illiterate
unable to read or write.
domicile
the country that a person treats as their permanent home, or lives in and has a substantial connection with.-resident
Cryptic
having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure.
Placate
make (someone) less angry or hostile.- Appease
Appease
relieve or satisfy (a demand or a feeling).
Vitriolic
filled with bitter criticism or malice.
-caustic
zealot
a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.
-fanatics
Itinerant
traveling from place to place.
Empirically
by means of observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.
Deciduously
Shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season:
Rhetorically
in terms of rhetoric or speech intended to impress or persuade.
Flaccid
(of part of the body) soft and hanging loosely or limply, especially so as to look or feel unpleasant.
Pernicious
having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way.
Neurotic
having, caused by, or relating to neurosis.
-unstable