Vocab 1,701 - 1,720 Flashcards
Chateau (shah-toh)
– noun
1) A fine country estate.
Pygmalion complex
– concept
1) The desire to create or work on someone, something until it’s perfect.
Abject
– adjective
1) utterly hopeless, miserable, humiliating, or wretched: abject poverty.
Spurn
– verb
1) to reject with disdain; scorn.
Spinsterhood
– noun
1) a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying. (Disparaging and Offensive)
Boudoir
– noun
1) a woman’s bedroom or private sitting room.
Varmint
- noun
1) an objectionable or undesirable animal, usually predatory, as a coyote or bobcat.
Pedigree
– noun
1) an ancestral line / line of descent: We can trace the pedigree of princes
Morass
– noun
1) a disordered or muddled situation or circumstance, esp one that impedes progress
Likewise
– adverb
1) in like manner.
Dissident
– adjective
1) disagreeing or dissenting, as in opinion or attitude:
Enamor
– verb
1) to fill or inflame with love: a brilliant woman with whom he became enamored.
Beseech
– verb
1) to implore urgently: They besought him to go at once.
Monday Morning Quarterback
– noun
1) a person who passes judgment on and criticizes something after the event.
Draconian
– adjective
1) unusually severe or cruel: Draconian forms of punishment.
Rudimentary
– adjective
1) pertaining to first elementary principles: a rudimentary knowledge of geometry.
Obsolescent
– adjective
1) obsolete: an obsolescent term.
Patronize
– verb
1) to behave in an offensively condescending manner toward: a professor who patronizes his students.
Corroborate
– verb
1) to confirm: He corroborated my account of the accident.
Gratuitous
– adjective
1) being without apparent reason/cause/justification: a gratuitous insult.
