Vocab 4 Flashcards
Cathartic / catharsis
Act of realizing a strong emotion usually in art form / healing purging feeling
Syn: realizing ant: contain
Circumspect
Thinking carefully about possible risks before doing/ saying
Syn: careful ant: carefree
Coalesce
Come together form one group/ mass
Syn: combine ant: bifurcate
Cognizant
Aware of something knowledgeable or mindful of something
Syn: aware/ knowledgeable ant: dense
Deleterious
Harmful often in a subtle or unexpected way
Syn: harmful ant: peaceful
Divestiture
Act of divesting / selling stock property on compulsion usually from the gov
Syn: divesting ant: invest
Effusive
Expressing emotions great excessive emotion or enthusiasm
Syn: enthusiasm ant: dull
Erudite
Having showing knowledge gained by study
Syn: expert ant: uneducated
Esoteric
Only taught / understood by members of special group requiring knowledge only available to restricted group
Syn: selected ant: everyone
Frenetic
Filled with excitement activity / confusing wild or frantic
Syn wild ant calm
Gregarious
Enjoying the company of other people tending to live in groups
Syn affable ant lonely
Harangue
Ranting speech / writing forceful of angry speech
Syn forceful ant peaceful
Indolent
Averse to activity effort or movement habitually lazy
Syn drony ant active
Hubris
Foolish exaggerated pride or self confidence
Syn audacity ant humility
Innocuous
Causing producing no unjustly or harm not likely to bother or offend
Syn innocent ant damaging
Malign
Slander defame to make harmful often untrue statements causing for intending to cause harm
Syn defame/ antipathetic ant truthful /pure
Modicum
Small portion or limited quantity
Syn fraction ant whole
Moot
Not certain open to question but impossible to prove but not worth talking about or defeating no longer of importance
Syn a thought? Ant debating/ unfinished
Myriad
Various very large number or variety
Syn infinite ant countable
Opulent
Very wealthy having a large estate or property
Syn rich ant poor
Proliferate
Increase in number of amount quickly rapid growth
Syn multiply ant decrease
Redolent
Cashing thought or memories of something full of a specific fragrance
Syn scented ant unmemorable
Spurious
Not genuine sincere or authentic based on false ideas of bad reasoning
Syn false ant real
Supine
Lying on the back facing upward marked by lethal or great indifference
Syn unmoving ant active
