Vocab 5 Flashcards
- Of or relating to money
2. Requiring payment of money
Pecuniary
Originating with mathematics term indicating the limits or range of variables, the term often is used to mean a limit or boundary or as a high-toned synonym for characteristic.
Parameter
- Resembling a precipice; extremely steep
- Having several precipices
- Extremely rapid, hasty, or abrupt; precipitate
Precipitous
- Everyday; commonplace
2. Recurring daily
Quotidian
To repeat in concise form; to summarize briefly
Recapitulate
Concerning each of two or more persons or things
Interchanged or owed to each other
Reciprocal
- The act or process of repairing
- The act or process of making amends
- Something done or paid to compensate or make amends
- Compensation or remuneration required from a defeated nation
Reparation
- Of the cool of blood; red; a healthy reddish color
- Having the temperament and ruddy complexion formerly thought to be characteristic of a person dominated by this humor; passionate
Sanguine
- To bring under control; conquer or defeat
2. To make subservient; enslave. The wealthy landowners subjugated the peasants working the land
Subjugate
An advocate of the extension of political voting rights, especially to women
Suffragist
Expressive of contempt.
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy.
Supercilious
- Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy
- Logic- and empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false
Tautology
- Relating to or characterized by tempests(storms).
2. Characterized by disturbance or commotion; stormy or turbulent.
Tempestuous
- Characterized by affected, exaggerated, on insincere earnestness.
- Having the quality or characteristics of oil or ointment; slippery
Unctuous
