Vocab 5 Flashcards
Blandish
Verb
To coax but using flattery (Rachel’s assistant tried to blandish her into accepting the deal.)
Abet
Verb
to aid, help, encourage (the spy succeeded only because he had a friend on the inside to abet him.)
Callous
Adjective
Harsh, cold, unfeeling (the murderer’s callous lack of remorse shocked the jury.)
Decry
Verb
To criticize openly (the kind video rental clerk decried the policy of charging costumes late fees.)
Edict
Noun
An order, decree (the ruler issued an edit requiring all of his subjects to bow down before him.)
Fatuous
Adjective
Silly, foolish (he considers himself a serious poet, but in truth, he only writes fatuous limericks.)
Gluttony
Noun
Overindulgence in food or drink (Ada’s fried chicken tastes so divine, I don’t know how anyone cal call gluttony a sin.)
Impassive
Adjective
Stoic, not susceptible to suffering (stop being so impassive; it’s healthy to cry every now and then.)
Latent
Adjective
Hidden, but capable of being exposed (Sigmund’s dream represented his latent paranoid obsessions with other peoples’ shoes.)
Manifest
1. Adjective 2. verb
- Easily understandable, obvious (when I wrote the wrong sum on the chalkboard, my mistake was so mani feet that the entire class burst into laughter.) 2. To show plainly (his illness first manifested itself with particularly violent hiccups.)
Nefarious
Adjective
Heinously villainous (Although Dr. Mean man’a nefarious plot to melt the polar ice caps was terrifying, it was so impractical that nobody really worried about it.)
Obsolete
Adjective
No longer used, out of date. (With the inventions of tape decks, and CD’s, which both have better sound and are easier to use, eight-track players are now entirely obsolete.)
Palatable
Adjective
Agreeable to the taste or sensibilities (despite the unpleasant smell, the exotic cheese was quite palatable.)
Quaint
Adjective
Charmingly old-fashioned (Hilda was delighted by the quaint bonnets she saw in Amish country.)
Rapport
Noun
Mutual understanding and harmony (when Margaret met her paramour, they felt an instant rapport.)