Vocab Flashcards
Prevaricate
To lie or deviate from the truth
Garret
An attic, usually a small wretched one
Hypochondria
A preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease
Abject
God-awful or terrible
Resolutely
Decisively, firmly
Languid
Indifferent
Bilious
Peevish, irritable
Monomaniac
Obsessing over one thing
Melodramatic
Overly dramatic
Self-abnegation
Being self critical , self harming
Fortitude
Strength
Superfluous
Excessive
Prepossessing
Good first impression , favorable on the outside
Unalloyed
Pure, complete
Foppish
Characteristics of one who is unduly devoted to dress and niceties of manners
Base
Low and crude
Treacle
Jam/ jelly thing or an expression that is excessively sweet and sentimental
Capriciously
Impulsively or changing on a whim
Solicitude
Feeling of excessive concern
Incredulous
Disbelieving or skeptical
Corpulence
Fat or state of being fat
Countenance
Facial expression
Peculiarly
Having to do with money
Insolence
Insulting or contemptuous behavior , disrespectful
Haughty
Supercilious and arrogant
Servile
Slave type behavior or craven subordination
Pernicious
Destructive or deadly
Expiating or expiate
Making amends, atoning
Lachrymose
Causing tears , showing sorrow, tearful
Nihilist/ nihilism
One who rejects all religious, morals, and traditional values, practices and institutions
Misanthrope
People hater
Vacillating
Irresolute , moving back and forth, can’t make up your mind
Duality
Having a schism in your personality , two sides likes Raskolnikov
Philanderer
Faithless lover or a flirt
Lecherous
Having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire
Supercilious
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
Treacherous
Dangerously unstable and unpredictable
Heretics
Those who told beliefs oppose to the established teachings of a church
Acaricious
Greedy
Putrefy
To rot and or decay giving off a foul stench
Presentiment
Forethought or a foreboding feeling