Vocab Flashcards
Mettle
Courage
Vigor
Strength of spirit
Indefatigable
Tireless, unflagging, inexhaustible
Toddy
Usually hot drink made with liquor sugar and spices
Germinating
To evolve
To begin to grow
Acquiesced
Succumbed
Comply
Accept
Subordinating
to make one subservient or to treat other of less value or importance
Sepulcher
Tomb or grave
Infusoria
Bacteria
Morass (more ass)
Literally a swamp
A situation that confuses or impedes (blocks)
Adherents
Followers
Temperate
Moderate
Vacillation
Irresolution
Indecision
Inability to take a stand
Scruple
An ethical consideration that inhibits actions ; mental reservation
Virility
Manly vigor
Pugnacious
Combative
Belligerent (aggressive)
Truculent (aggressive)
Quarrelsome (argumentative)
Impetuous
Impulsive vehemence
Rash forcefulness
Cantankerous
Difficult or irritating to wrk with
Inexorable
Not to be persuaded, moved or stopped; relentless
Obstinacy
State of bein stubborn
Subsistence
Minimum food or shelter necessary to support life
Yoke
Frame that goes around necks of Myles to harness them to work together
Imprudent
Not cautious
Assiduously
Diligently
Carefully
Lucidly
Vivid
Clear
Venerable
Respected due to age
Hallowed (holy)
Plebeian
Common people
Can mean crude of coarse
Vote in which entire country participates
Fjord
Common land form in Norway
Narrow I let of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes
Glazier
Someone who fixes glass or windows
Pilloried
device for publicity punishing people by locking head and hands through wooden frame and holes
Prophylactic
Something that prevents or guards from disease or harm
Innocuous
harmless or inoffensive
Invective
Characterized by insult or abuse
Vituperative (abusive)
Opprobrious (critical)
Truculent (hostile)
Insidious
Treacherous
Harming or wearing a chance to entrap
Expediency
Consideration of whats is opportune (rather than principle) especially when this means motivated. Y self interest
Altruism
Unselfish
Devoted to welfare of others
Extirpate
Remove or rip by root
Completely destroy
Wipe out
Obliterate
Obsequious
Marked by fawning attentiveness
Husbandry
Care, conservative and nurturing
Exonerate
Cleared if accusation or blame
Emancipator
One who set free
Enigma
Puzzle
Something that’s mysterious or inscrutable (unknowable)
Distension
Acts if being swollen
Gregarious
Sociable
Tending to associate with others
Quixotic
Extravagantly visionary and I practice
Extravagantly chivalrous or romantic