Vocab Flashcards
Ameliorate
To improve, make better
Approbation
Praise, official approval
Assuage
Satisfy, to make easier
Disabuse
To free from error
Extricate
To free from entanglements or difficulties
Immutable
Constant, not subject to change
Intrinsic
Inherit, essential, pertaining from body part
Tenuous
Thin, not dense
Transient
Fleeting, for short time
Vicarious
Performed throughout another
austere
sever, stern
beneficent
performing acts of charity
cadaverous
pale
concoct
to prepare by adding ingredients
crass
course
debase
to lower in character or value
desecrate
to contaminiate, pollute
diconcert
to confuse
grandiose
absurdly outrageous
inconsequential
unimportant
infraction
breaking of law or obligation
mitigate
to make milder
pillage
to plunder
prate
talk foolishly
punctilious
very careful, exact
redoubtable
inspiring fear
reprove
to find fault with
restitution
act of restoring
stalwart
strong, sturdy, brave
vulnerable
open to attack
acrimonious
stinging, bitter
bovine
cow or ox
consternation
confusing
corpulent
fat, large body
disavow
deny responsibility
dispassionate
calm, free from emotion
dissension
disagreement
dissipate
to cause to disapper
expurgate
to cleanse, purify
gauntlet
protective glove
hypothetical
based on assumption or question
ignoble
mean, low, unhonorable
impugn
to call to question
intemperate
lacking self control
odium
hatred, contempt
perfidy
faithlessness, treachery
relegate
to place in lower position
squeamish
inclined to nausea
subservient
obedient
susceptible
open to, easily influenced