Vocab 2,061 - 2,080 Flashcards
Gentrify
– verb
1) to alter to make appealing to those with more affluent tastes: Fish and chips have been gentrified.
Alchemize
– verb
1) to change by or as by alchemy; transmute: to alchemize lead into gold.
Inscrutable
– adjective
1) incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable: the inscrutable depths of the ocean.
Dispel
– verb
1) to drive off in various directions; disperse; dissipate: to dispel the dense fog. to dispel her fears.
Bildungsroman
– noun
1) a type of novel concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist.
Stoicism
– noun
1) conduct conforming to the precepts of the Stoics, as repression of emotion and indifference to pleasure or pain.
Rubble
– noun
1) broken bits and pieces of anything, as that which is demolished: Bombing reduced the town to rubble.
Admonish
– verb
1) to caution, advise, or counsel against something.
2) to reprove or scold, especially in a mild and good-willed manner: The teacher admonished him about excessive noise.
Invigilate
– verb
1) to keep watch; to keep watch over students at an examination.
Ineradicable
– adjective
1) not capable of being eradicated/rooted out/completely removed.
Absolution
– noun
1) a freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences/obligations/penalties.
Provocateur
– noun
1) a person who provokes trouble, causes dissension, or the like; agitator.
Gobbledygook
– noun
1) language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
Circumlocution
– noun
1) a roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.
Claptrap
– noun
1) pretentious but insincere or empty language: His speeches seem erudite but analysis reveals them to be mere claptrap.
Rubbish
– noun
1) trash.
Balderdash
– noun
1) nonsense.
Related forms
– Balderdashery, noun
Blather
– noun /
1) to talk or utter foolishly: The poor thing blathered for hours about the intricacies of his psyche.
Prima facie (pree-mah fey-shuh)
– adverb
1) at first appearance; at first view, before investigation,plain or clear; self-evident; obvious: The man told me that his love for her happened at prima facie, which meant it was love at first sight for him and her.
The prosecutor on the murder case presented the events of the following morning from blood stains and fingerprints that looked like prima facie against the defendant to be sentenced.
Prostrate
– adjective
1) lying flat or at full length, as on the ground; submissive.
