Vocab 5: Give Up? Flashcards
Amenable
Open and responsive to suggestions; easily persuaded and controlled
Aspire
Direct hopes and ambitions towards achieving something
Assiduous
Showing great care, attention, affect, perseverance
Assuage
To make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense
Compliant / Compliance
Inclined to agree with others or obey rules, especially to an excessive degree; acquiescent
Dauntless
Showing fearlessness and determination
Debacle
A sudden and ignominious (public disgrace or shame) failure; a fiasco
Debilitate
Weaken
Debunk
Expose the falseness or hollowness
Deference / Deferential
Humble submission or respect
Deterrent
A thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something
Disheartened
Having lost determination of confidence; discouraged
Dispel
Make (a doubt, belief, feeling) disappear
Disquiet
A feeling of anxiety or worry
Facile
Easily achieved; effortless
Futile / Futility
Incapable of producing any useful result; pointless
Gallant
Brave, heroic
Impasse
Situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of disagreement; a deadlock
Indomitable
Impossible to subdue or defeat
Intrepid
Fearless, adventurous
Onerous
Involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome
Servile
Having a showing an excessive willingness to serve or please others
Steadfast
Resolutely or dutifully firm and unwavering
Subservient
Prepared to obey others unquestioningly
Tenacious / Tenacity
Persisting in existence, not easily dispelled
Tenuous
Very weak or slight
Tribulation
A cause of great trouble or suffering
Vying
Compete eagerly in order to do or achieve something
