Vocab 12 Flashcards
Allotment
A portion or thing allotted; a share granted
Crucible
A container of metal or refractory material employed for heating substances to high temperatures
Salutary
Favorable to or promoting health; healthful
Abdicate
To renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manners
Magnitude
Size; extend; dimensions
Anguish
Excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain
Solace
Comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or trouble; alleviation of distress or discomfort
Insidious
Intended to entrap or beguile
Subjugation
The act, fact, or process oh subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement
Supplication
An act or instance of supplicating; humble prayer, entreaty, or petition
Remonstrate
To say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval
Spurn
To reject with disdain; scorn
Contempt
The feeling with which a person regards anything considered mean, vile, or worthless; disdain; scorn
Inviolate
Free from violation, injury, desecration, or outrage
Base
Morally low, dishonorable, selfish
Formidable
Causing fear, apprehension, or dread
Invincible
Incapable of being conquered, defeated, or subdued
Vigilant
Keenly watchful to detect danger; wary
Extenuate
To represent (a fault, offense, etc) as less serious
Impel
To drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action
Abolish
To do away with; put an end to; annul; make void
Transient
Not lasting, enduring, or permanent; transitory
Usurp
To seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right
Evince
To show clearly; make evident or manifest; prove
Constrain
To force, compel, or oblige
Relinquish
To renounce or surrender (a possession, right, etc)
Render
To cause to be or become; make
Perfidy
Deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery
Consanguinity
Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; kinship
Acquiesce
To assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent
Redress
The setting right of what’s wrong
Warranted
Authorization, sanction, or justification
Conjure
To affect or influence by or as if by invocation or spell
Kindred
A persons relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin
Oxymoron
A figure of speech producing a self contradictory effect (icy heat)
