Vocab 3 Flashcards
Abdicate
Cast off duty/ responsibility
Despondent
Feeling/ showing extreme discouragement/ dejection/ depression
Elucidate
To make something difficult/ hard to understand
Fastidious
Very careful how you do something/ hard to please
Foible
Minor flaw/ shortcoming in character or behavior of weakness
ILK
The same/ sort / kind negative connotation (bad group)
Impugn
Criticize character suggesting that person isn’t honest
Ineffable
Incapable of expressing in words
(Powerful, beautiful, great)
Megalomania
Delusional belief that one has unlimited power/ importance
Mellifluous
Having smooth flowing sound
Obfuscate
To make obscure/ confuse/ darken
Odious
Causing hatred/ strong dislike
Syn: irascible
Ostensible
Seeming to said to be true but possible not true/ real intended for display
Ostentatious
Get noticed draw attention (bad)
Syn: garish
Palliative
Reduces negative effects/ sooths
Syn: assuage
Paucity
Small amount of something less than what is wanted/ needed
Pique/ puiqed
To cause interest/ curiosity
To make someone annoyed/ angry
Proclivity
Strong liking for something/ tendency
Syn: propensity (type)
Pugnacious
Having quarrelsome combative nature
Syn: irascible
Quixotic
Foolishly impractical especially in pursuit of ideals/ romance
Syn: fantasy
Remuneration
Money/ other payment for the work a person has done
Syn: payment
Salubrious
Healthy/ promoting health/ wellbeing
Sundry
Made up of different things/ miscellaneous
Syn: eclectic
Unconscionable
Extremely bad/ unfair/ wrong/ shockingly unjust
