Vocab Day 6 Flashcards
Admonish
warn or reprimand someone firmly
Aesthetic
concerned with beauty
Affectation
pretension, facade
adj) fake; phony
Afton had never traveled outside of the United States, but he used an affected French accent to attract attention.
Word Forms: affectedly, affectedness
Alleviate
make suffering less severe
Analogous
comparable in certain respects
Bolster
support or strength
Chauvinistic
displaying aggressive patriotism, displaying excessive support for their own cause, group or
sex
Connoisseur
an expert judge in matters of taste
Dissemble
conceal or disguise one’s true feelings or beliefs
a person who conceals his real feelings by professing false beliefs
The dissembler pledged allegiance to the rebel group, but he was really working undercover for the opposing army.
Word Forms: dissemble, dissemblingly, dissemblance Related Words: resemble, semblance
Dogged
showing tenacity and grim persistence
Dupe
trick, a victim of deception
Empirical
based on observation rather than theory
Engender
(vb) to produce | cause or give rise to a feeling situation
Divorce can engender feelings of anger, loss, and powerlessness.
Word Forms: engenderer, engenderment Antonym Form: unengendered Related Word: generate
Entitled
give someone a legal right
Pertinacious
holding firmly to an opinion or a cause of action
Presumptuous
failing to observe limits of what is appropriate/ brazen
Probity
(n) honesty and integrity | having strong moral principles, honesty and decency
Prudence was often selected as hall monitor because of her probity; the teacher knew he could trust her.
Proliferate
increase rapidly in number, multiply
The franchise has proliferated; there were just two restaurants ten years ago, but now there are more than two
hundred.
Word Form: proliferative, proliferation
Specious
plausible but false 2. deceptively pleasing
The merits of the diet are specious; while we want to believe we can eat unlimited protein, there are many health
risks associated with the high-cholesterol plan.
Word Forms: speciously, speciousness, speciosity
Subjective
influenced by personal feelings, tastes, opinions
Subvert
undermine the power and authority of system
The subversive group was arrested when one of the members told of the group’s plot to overthrow the king.
Word Forms: subversive (n.), subversively, subversiveness, subversivism, subvert, subversion
Timorous
lack of confidence, easily frightened
Tortuous
full of twists and turns excessively complex
Tractable
easy to control or influence, easy to deal with
