Vocab 7 Flashcards
Bemused
Puzzled, confused, or bewildered
Susurration
Whispering, murmuring, or rustling
“The susurration of the river”
Spurious
Not what it purports to be, false or fake
Maladroit
Ineffective or bungling, clumsy
Profligacy
Reckless extravagance or wastefulness in the use of resources, promiscuous behavior
Panegyrical
Eulogistic oration or writing
Gauche
Lacking ease or grace, unsophisticated and socially awkward
Banal
So lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring
Quiescent
In a state or period of inactivity or dormancy
Decorous
In keeping with good taste and propriety, polite and restrained
Prepossessing
Attractive or appealing in appearance
Felicitous
Well chosen or suited to the circumstances, pleasing and fortunate
Diffidence
Modesty or shyness resulting from a lack of self confidence
Reticent
Not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily
Doughty
Brave and persistent
Retrenchment
The reduction of costs or spending in response to economic difficulty
Coruscating
Flashing, sparkling, or severely critical, scathing
Teleological
Explaining phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than how they’re caused, or relating to the doctrine of design and purpose in the material world
Preternatural
Beyond what is normal or natural
Countenance
A person’s face or facial expression, support, admit as acceptable or possible
Edifying
Providing moral or intellectual instruction
Cadge
Ask for or obtain something to which one is not strictly entitled
Mendicate
To beg
Iridescent
Showing luminous colors that seem to change when seen from different angles
Monocoque
An aircraft or vehicle structure in which the chassis is integral with the body
Pavonine
Of or like a peacock
Parietal
Of, relating to, attached to, or denoting the wall of the body or of a body cavity or hollow structure. Or, relating to residence in a college dormitory and especially to visits from members of the opposite sex.
Execrable
Extremely bad or unpleasant
Sidereal
Of or with respect to the distant stars
Etiolated
Having lost vigor or substance, feeble, (of a plant) pale and drawn out due to lack of light
Circumscribed
Restrict something within limits
Acute
Present or experienced to a severe or intense degree (of a bad situation), having or showing a perceptive understanding or insight; shrewd
Analogous
Comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared
Commensurate
Corresponding in size or degree; in proportion
Comportment
Behavior, bearing
Invidious
(of an action or situation) likely to arouse or incur resentment or anger in others, (of a comparison or distinction) unfairly discriminating, unjust.
Nugatory
Of no value or importance, useless or futile
Denouement
The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved, or the climax of a chain of events, usually when something is decided or made clear
Antediluvian
Ridiculously old fashioned
Imbibe
To receive into the mind and retain
Belie
(of an appearance) fail to give a true notion or impression of (something); disguise or contradict, fail to fulfill or justify (a claim or expectation); betray
Apocryphal
(of a story or statement) of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true
Superannuation
obsolete through age or new technological or intellectual developments
Senescence
The condition or process of deterioration with age, loss of a cell’s power of division and growth
Lachrymose
Tearful or given to weeping
Polemical
Expressing a strongly critical attack on or a controversial opinion about someone or something
Incarnation
A person who embodies a deity, spirit, or abstract quality
Infelicitous
Unfortunate, inappropriate
Effete
Affected and overly refined, no longer capable of effective action, (of a man) behaving in a way traditionally associated with women
Acrimonious
(typically of a speech or debate) angry and bitter
Inveterate
having a particular habit, activity, or interest that is long-established and unlikely to change
Turgid
swollen and distended or congested, (of a language or style) tediously pompous
Interdict
An authoritative prohibition, to prohibit or forbid, to intercept or prohibit the movement of (a commodity or person)
Indigence
A state of extreme poverty
Parsimony
extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources
Antipathy
a deep-seated feeling of dislike; aversion
Ignobility
Characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness, of low birth or common origin
Probity
the quality of having strong moral principles; honesty and decency.
Redress
remedy or set right (an undesirable or unfair situation)
Florid
having a red or flushed complexion, elaborately or excessively intricate or complicated
Choleric
bad-tempered or irritable
Physiognomy
a person’s facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin, the general form or appearance of something
Indispose
Make (someone) unfit for or unable to do something, make (someone) averse to something
Forbearance
patient self-control; restraint and tolerance
Contend
struggle to surmount (a difficulty or danger), assert something as a position in an argument
Tyro
a beginner or novice.
Agronomist
an expert in the science of soil management and crop production.
Flocculent
- having or resembling tufts of wool. “the first snows of winter lay thick and flocculent”
- having a loosely clumped texture. “a brown flocculent precipitate”
Thewy
Muscular, brawny
Insolvent
unable to pay debts owed.
“the company became insolvent”
Pneumatic
containing or operated by air or gas under pressure.
“the machines with pneumatic loading are more efficient
Ebullient
cheerful and full of energy.
Stratagem
a plan or scheme, especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end.
“a series of devious stratagems”
Paucity
the presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity.
“a paucity of information”
Indemnify
- compensate (someone) for harm or loss.
“the amount of insurance that may be carried to indemnify the owner in the event of a loss” - secure (someone) against legal liability for their actions.
“the newspaper could not be forced to indemnify the city for personal-injury liability”
Liquidate
- wind up the affairs of (a company or firm) by ascertaining liabilities and apportioning assets.
“if the company was liquidated, there would be enough funds released to honor the debts” - eliminate, typically by violent means; kill.
“rivals and critics were liquidated in bloody purges”
Pillory
attack or ridicule publicly.
Belie
to show (something) to be false or wrong
Capitulate
cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender
