Vocab 61-90 Flashcards
Enigmatic
Mysterious, resembling a puzzling situation
Emulate
Try to equal or excel
Ennui
Feeling of lack of interest or boredom
Ephemeral
Lasting a very short time
Epicure
Person who cultivates a refined taste, especially in food and wine
Equivocate
Use unclear expressions to avoid commitment or to mislead
Erudition
Knowledge acquired by a study, research
Esoteric
Understood by only a select few who have special knowledge/interest
Espouse
Make ones own, to marry
Ethereal
Light, airy, extremely delicate
Extol
Praise highly
Fatuous
Foolish, silly, unreal
Fecund
Producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation in abundance
Felicity
State of being happy, in high degree
Fetid
Having an offensive odor
Flippant
Disrespectful, shallow, lacking in seriousness
Florid
Reddish, rosy
Foible
Minor weakness or failing of character, slight flaw or defect
Furtive
Taken/done/used by secret, sly
Garish
Tastefully colorful, showy, elaborate, as clothes or decoration
Garner
Gather, collect
Guile
Crafty or artful deception, in attaining a goal
Hedonism
Devotion to a pleasure as a way of life
Heretic
Anyone who doesn’t conform to an established attitude or principle. Maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by the church
Hiatus
Break or interruption in the continuity of a work, serious, action
Histrionic
Actors or acting. Overly dramatic in behavior or speech
Hoary
Gray or white with age, ancient
Iconoclasm
Person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditions, being based on error or superstition
Immutable
Unchangeable
Impervious
Incapable of being influenced, persuaded, affected, injured, or passed through
