Vocab 3,021 - 3,040 Flashcards
Coherent
– adjective
1) logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument.
Gambit
– noun
1) any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.
Stevedore
– noun
1) a person employed, or a contractor engaged, at a dock to load and unload cargo from ships.
Fealty
– noun
1) the obligation or the engagement to be faithful to a lord, usually sworn to by a vassal.
Insurgent
– adjective
1) surging or rushing in: The insurgent waves battered the shore.
Expository
– adjective
1) serving to expound or explain: an expository essay; expository writing.
Aforementioned
– adjective
1) cited or mentioned earlier or previously.
Derange
– verb
1) to throw into disorder; disarrange.
Craven
– adjective
1) cowardly; contemptibly timid; pusillanimous.
Touché
– exclamation
1) used as an acknowledgment during a discussion of a good or clever point made at one’s expense by another person.
Concoct
– verb
1) to devise/make up/contrive: to concoct an excuse.
Irrepressible
– adjective
1) incapable of being repressed or restrained; uncontrollable: irrepressible laughter.
Delinquent
– adjective
1) failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
Endevour
– noun / verb
1) an enterprise or undertaking: a political endeavor.
2) try hard to do or achieve something: he’s endeavoring to help the Third World.
Bailiwick
– noun
1) a person’s area of skill, knowledge, authority, or work:
to confine suggestions to one’s own bailiwick.
Inauspicious
– adjective
1) boding ill; ill-omened; unfavorable.
Related forms
inauspiciously, adverb
inauspiciousness, noun
Auspicious
– adjective
1) promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable: an auspicious occasion.
Edification
– noun
1) moral improvement or guidance.
Invariable
– adjective
1) not changing or capable of being changed; static or constant.
Relegate
– verb
1) to send or consign to an inferior position, place, or condition: He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
