Vocab #10 Flashcards
Imperious
(adj.) Domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
Urgent; imperative: imperious need.
Inveterate
(adj.) Settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like: an inveterate gambler.
Firmly established by long continuance, as a disease, habit, practice, feeling, etc.; chronic.
Unkempt
(adj.) Not combed: unkempt hair. Uncared-for or neglected; disheveled; messy: unkempt clothes; an unkempt lawn. Unpolished; rough; crude.
Disconsolate
(adj.) Without consolation or solace; hopelessly unhappy; inconsolable: Loss of her pet dog made her disconsolate.
Characterized by or causing dejection; cheerless; gloomy: disconsolate prospects.
Servile
(adj.) Slavishly submissive or obsequious; fawning: servile flatterers.
Characteristic of, proper to, or customary for slaves; abject: servile obedience.
Yielding slavishly; truckling (usually followed by to).
Extremely imitative, especially in the arts; lacking in originality.
Being in slavery; oppressed.
Insinuate
(v – used with object) To suggest or hint slyly: He insinuated that they were lying.
To instill or infuse subtly or artfully, as into the mind: to insinuate doubts through propaganda.
To bring or introduce into a position or relation by indirect or artful methods: to insinuate oneself into favor.
(v – used without object) To make insinuations.
Ravenous
(adj.) Extremely hungry; famished; voracious: feeling ravenous after a hard day’s work.
Extremely rapacious: a ravenous jungle beast. Intensely eager for gratification or satisfaction.
Morose
(adj.) Gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood. Characterized by or expressing gloom.
Agrarian
(adj.) Relating to land, land tenure, or the division of landed property: agrarian laws.
Pertaining to the advancement of agricultural groups: an agrarian movement. Composed of or pertaining to farmers: an agrarian co-op.
Rural; agricultural. Growing in fields; wild: an agrarian plant.
(n) A person who favors the equal division of landed
property and the advancement of agricultural groups.
Vigilante
(n) A member of a vigilance committee. Any person who takes the law into his or her own hands, as by avenging a crime.
(adj. ) Done violently and summarily, without recourse to lawful procedures: vigilante justice.
*Magnanimous
(adj.) Generous in forgiving an insult or injury; free from petty resentfulness or vindictiveness: to be magnanimous toward one’s enemies.
High-minded; noble: a just and magnanimous ruler.
Proceeding from or revealing generosity or nobility of mind, character, etc.: a magnanimous gesture of forgiveness.
*Sojourn
(n.) A temporary stay: during his sojourn in Paris.
(v – used without object) To stay for a time in a place; live temporarily: to sojourn on the Riviera
for two months.
*Dearth
(n.) An inadequate supply; scarcity; lack: There is a dearth of good engineers.
Scarcity and dearness of food; famine.
*Repose
(n.) The state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep. Peace; tranquillity; calm.
Dignified calmness, as of manner; composure. Absence of movement, animation, etc.: When in repose, her face recalls the Mona Lisa.
(v – without an object) To lie or be at rest, as
from work, activity, etc. To lie dead: His body will repose in the chapel for two days.
To be peacefully calm and quiet: The sea reposed under the tropical sun. To lie or rest on something.
*Somber
(adj.) Gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
Dark and dull, as color, or as things in respect to color: a somber dress. Gloomy, depressing, or
dismal: a somber mood.
Extremely serious; grave: a somber expression on his face.
