Vocab Flashcards
Detriment
Injury, damage, or something that causes it; disadvantage. Antonym- advantage
Ameliorate
Make better; improve. Antonym- worsen.
Folly
Lack of good sense, foolish action or undertaking. Antonym- worsen
Impediment
Something that hinders of obstructs. Antonym- aid
Indolent
Disposed to avoid exertion, lazy, idle.
Parsimonious
Unduly sparing in the spending of money; stingy.
Reticent
Inclined to be silent of secretive, uncommunicative.
Retort
Answer, reply sharply or with anger.
Subvert
Overturn or overthrow from the foundation, undermine
Tractable
Easily led, taught, or controlled; yielding; docile.
Ebullient
Overflowing with enthusiasm, exuberant.
Exhort
Arouse by words, advise strongly.
Gall
Make sore, irritate mentally, annoy.
Indemnify
Compensate for loss, damage, or injury; reimburse; repay
Inane
Lacking significance or sense; pointless
Peruse
Read; look at fairly attentively; study.
Abhorrent
In conflict, utterly opposed, loathsome, repugnant.
Admonish
Reprove gently but seriously; warn of a fault; caution.
Ephemeral
Lasting one day only; fleeting; transitory, short lived
Gullible
Easily deceived or cheated
Unwittingly
Unintentionally, by accident
Acquit
Pronounce not guilty, discharge
Consign
Transfer, give, deliver, as if by signing over, handover, commit.
Effrontery
Shameless boldness, insolence, gall.
Forbearance
Act of refraining, abstaining; leniency; patience.
Prodigious
Extraordinary in amount or size, enormous, gigantic.
Salutary
Favorable to health, healthful, curative; beneficial.
Scrutinize
Examine very closely, inspect.
Supersede
Force out of use, displace, supplant, replace.
Unwieldy
Hard to handle because of size or weight, unmanageable, bulky.
