Vocab 4: P-T Flashcards
Saccharine (adj)
Sugary sweet, exaggeratedly sweet
Cloyingly sweet
Rudimentary (adj)
Unfinished or immature
Sanguine (adj)
cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident.
A sanguine personality
prosaic (adj)
dull or commonplace; matter-of-fact; ordinary.
pedestrian (adj)
unimaginative, commonplace; prosaic or dull
pertinacious (adj)
stubborn, obstinate; objectionably persistent; resolute.
petulant (adj)
moved to or showing sudden impatient irritation over some small annoyance.
pragmatic (adj)
practical; of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerations;
postulate (v)
to ask, demand or claim;
to assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted
plebiscite (n)
a direct vote of the qualified voters of a state in regard to some important public question.
penurious (adj)
extremely stingy, miserly; extremely poor, destitute; lacking in means or resources.
renege (v)
to go back on one’s word.
reneged on
rapacious (adj)
inordinately greedy; predatory
renegade (n)
someone who deserts a party or cause for another; a traitor
rebuff (v)
a blunt of abrupt rejection; snub; a preemptory refusal of a request or offer;
a check to progress.
rococo (adj)
architectural style that is delicate and elegant but ornate;
ornate in speech or literary style
recidivism (n)
repeated relapse, as into a crime;
chronic tendency towards repetitive criminal/ antisocial behavior patterns
reticent (adj)
reserved; reluctant or restrained
soporific (adj)
sleep inducing; sleepy; drowsy
tally (v)
to record or register; to count; to correspond or agree.
(n) anything on which a score is kept;
truculent (adj)
fierce, cruel, savagely brutal; scathing; aggressively hostile or belligerent.
transcendent (adj)
surpassing, exceeding, going beyond ordinary limits; superior; outside consciousness
