Vocab 921 - 940 Flashcards
Allay
– verb
1) to alleviate: to allay pain.
Inveigh
– verb
1) to protest strongly: to inveigh against isolationism.
Insolence
– noun
1) highly rude behavior or speech.
Apogee
– noun
1) the highest point, zenith: the White House is considered the apogee of American achievement.
Litigious
– Adjective
1) excessively or readily inclined to litigate: a litigious person.
Tatterdemalion
– Adjective or Noun
1) ragged; unkempt or dilapidated: He seemed to fit to the tatterdemalion apartment.
Legerity
– noun
1) physical agility or mental quickness.
Frabjous
– adjective
1) wonderful, elegant, superb, or delicious.
Credence
– noun
1) the belief in something: to give credence to a claim.
Volitant
– adjective
1) engaged in or having the power of flight.
Defenestrate
– verb
1) to throw (a person or thing) out of a window.
Bafflegab
– noun
1) confusing or generally unintelligible jargon: an insurance policy written in bafflegab impenetrable to a lay person.
Veridical
– adjective
1) truthful; veracious.
Sang-froid
– noun
1) coolness of mind or calmness: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.
Parlance
– noun
1) a way of speaking or vernacular: legal parlance.
Illusory
– adjective
1) causing illusion; deceptive; misleading: Freedom is illusory; we are all prisoners of our need to work for a living.
Chattel
– noun
1) Any moveable property.
Peonage
– noun
1) the condition or service of a peon.
Harbinger
– noun
1) anything that foreshadows a future event: Frost is a harbinger of winter.
Cohere
– verb
1) to stick together or be united: The particles of wet flour cohered to form a paste.
