Vocab Editorial Flashcards
Vicinity
Area, environment, proximity
Futile
Dispensable,non essential
Bounteous
Abundant, substantial, perpetual
Emancipation
Free, liberation
Sycophant
Chamcha,flatterer,cajolery, subservient
Oligarchy
Dominion over people,fascism, despotism
Arbiter
A person who settles a dispute
Demure
Shy,sly
Proliferation
Multiply,mushroom,thrive,burgeon
Incarceration
Imprisonment
Recondite
Obscure and little known
Arsonist
Person who starts a fire to destroy something
Skirt
Act dishonestly to gain benefit
Cajole
Persuade someone to do something….or remind
Pessimist
A person who always believes that something wrong will happen to him
Jaxatapose
Comparing
Inundated
Overwhelmed
We have been overwhelmed with the complaints by the listeners
Vagaries
Sudden and astonishing change in something or someone
Vagaries in weather
Roiling
Irritate,agitate,niggling,quibbling,
Subversion
Undermine the authority of someone; (underscore)
Debilitating
Make someone weak or feeble
Vocation
Type of life that you live.
Iconoclast
A person who is a disbeliever of some idea.. revolting it
Heretic
Person whose religious beliefs are considered wrong