Vocab Flashcards
Inscrutable
Impossible to understand or interpret
Not easily understood
Obsequies
Funeral rites
Specious
Superficially plausible, it actually wrong
Longueurs
Tedious passage in a book or other work
Libertine
Characterized by disregard of morality, esp. in sexual matters
Apoplectic
Filled with rage
Jaundiced
Affected by bitterness, resentment, or envy
Opprobrium
Public disgrace arising from shameful conduct
Solicitude
More than average concern for someone
Perhaps too much concern
Verisimilitude
Appearance of being true or real
Amalgam
A mixture or blend.
“a curious amalgam of the traditional and the modern”
Belie
(of an appearance) fail to give a true notion or impression of (something); disguise or contradict.
“his lively alert manner belied his years”
Recalcitrant
having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline. "a class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds”
Cosset
care for and protect in an overindulgent way.
“all her life she’d been cosseted by her family”
beleaguer
Beset with difficulties
Pedantic
someone who is pedantic makes a big display of knowing obscure facts and details.
Engender
cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition)
To produce or bring about
Cloying
disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment
Adumbrate
To adumbrate something is to outline it.
Evocative
bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind
Disingenuous
not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does
