vocab Flashcards
impulsive
adj. done without thinking
pedestrian
adj. going on foot, walking
inarticulate
adj. unclearly spoken or expressed
inscrutable
adj. difficult to know or understand
maledictions
n. curses
prescient
adj. having foreknowledge
inanimate
adj. not alive; lifeless
venerable
adj commanding respect
pathos
n. quality that arouses pity, sorrow, or sympathy in others
impertinent
adj. not showing proper respect; saucy
obstinacy
n. stubbornness
imperceptible
adj. not easy to perceive; unnoticeable
importunate
adj. insistent
munificent
adj. generous
equivocal
adj. having more than none possible interpretation
specious
adj. seeming to be but not actually sound
anomalous
adj. odd; out of the ordinary
sentience
n. capacity for feeling