Vocab Flashcards
To irritate, annoy, provoke
Vex
Disdainfully proud, snobbish or scornfully arrogant
Haughty
The formation or expression of an opinion or theory without sufficient evidence or proof
Conjecture
To invoke or call down evil or curses as upon a person
Imprecate
Unwavering as in resolution, faith or adherence
Steadfast
To putrify or rot
Fester
The act of killing one’s father, mother or other close relative
Parricide
A group of persons or things gathered or collected
Assemblage
An excess or excessive amount
Surfeit
A traveller, esp. on foot
Wayfarer
Any cause of destruction, impairment, ruin or frustration
Blight
The means by which atonement or reparation is made
Expiation
Authority, rightful status, independence or prerogative
Sovereignty
A person who is habitually lazy or inactive
Sluggard
To stop as at an obstacle and refuse to proceed or do something
Balk
A false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone
Calumny
To plan with ingenuity, devise or invent
Contrive
Soothsayer or prophet
Augur
A disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations
Quarrel
Full of or showing malice, spiteful
Malicious
To prove to be false as an opinion or charge
Refute
A written declaration upon an oath made before an authorized official
Affidavit
Lacking some element or characteristic
Deficient
A person who questions, interrogator
Interlocutor
Giving forth utterances or decisions as if by special inspiration or authority
Oracular
Strongly emotional, intense or passionate
Vehement
Of little or no weight or importance
Frivolous