Vocab Flashcards
Acuity
Sharpness or perfection
Alacrity
Prompt or cheerful response
Antipathy
A dislike, distaste, enmity
Arduous
Very difficult to accomplish
Auspicious
Favorable
Benign
Not causing harm
Capricious
Changing suddenly
Deleterious
Harmful
Depravity
Moral corruption
Despotic
Ruling oppressively
Edifice
Large building
Erudite
Scholarly
Esoteric
Understood by few
Ethereal
Heavenly, intangible
Exigent
Urgent
Gratuitous
Given freely
Impugn
Attack ones and integrity
Inclement
Stormy, severe
Indefatigable
Tireless, incapable of being fatigued
Insidious
Treacherous, dangerous in a secret sort of way
Loquacious
Very talkative
Malevolence
Wishing ill will or evil on someone
Misanthrope
Hater of mankind
Odious
Deserving hate
Penitent
Showing or feeling of regret
Piety
Religious devotion
Prattle
Meaningless sounds
Predilection
Preference
Propinquity
Nearness, kindship
Superfluous
Beyond what is needed, overflow