Vocab 1-10 Flashcards
Abhorrent
Inspiring disgust and loathing; hated
Augmented
Made greater in size or value
Calamity
Event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; disaster
Capacious
Spacious;roomy; commodious
Carnage
Killing of a large number of people
Commiserate
Feel or express sympathy;to pity
Conflagration
Extensive fire that destroys a great deal of land or property
Countenance
Facial features
Cursory
Hastily done; superficial
Detrimental
Tending to cause harm; damaging
Diabolical
Belonging so much to evil that it brings the devil to mind
Emaciated
Thin;waste almost to the point of nothingness
Epithets
Adj or description phrase that describes or renames that thing mentioned; often negative sense
Harrowing
Distressing; agonizing
Ignominious
Deserving of causing public disgrace or shame
Immutable
Unchanging overtime or unable to be changed
Imperious
Assuming power or authority without justification
Indolence
Avoidance of activity or exertion; laziness
Inexorable
Relentless;unyielding; impossible to stop or prevent
Languid
Weary, listless, weak, faint; often from illness or fatigue
Obdurate
Stubbornly refusing to change one’s course action
Penury
Extreme poverty; bareness
Precipitous
Dangerously high or steep; done suddenly and without careful consideration
Progeny
Decendent; offspring; children; followers; disciples
Purloined
Taken from another without right or detection; stolen
Rankling
Causing annoyance or resentment that persist
Repugnance
Intense disgust or loath
Reveries
State of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream
Salubrious
Health giving; healthy; not run down
Sustenance
Means of food or nourishments
