Vocab II Flashcards
Palliate
to make something seem less serious, gloss over
Panegyric
formal praise, eulogy, encomium
Parsimonious
cheap, miserly
Petrous
like a rock, hard, stony
Picaresque
involving clever rogues or adventurers
Plangent
thundering, pounding, resounding
Prolix
long winded, verbose
Proscribe
to outlaw, or banish, to ostracize
Pusillanimous
cowardly, craven
Ramify
to be divided or subdivided, branch out
Rebus
riddle, a representation of words in pictures or symbols
Recreant
coward, pusillanimous
Refractory
stubborn, unmanageable, intractable
Remonstrate
protest, object
Repine
to feel or express dejection or discontent, to long for
Rubric
heading, title or category
Runic
mysterious or magical
Saturnine
gloomy sullen or dark, morose
Sententious
aphoristic or moralistic, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively
Sidereal
astral, relating to stars or constellations
Sinecure
a position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income
Salacious
faulty logic, fallacious reasoning
Splenetic
bad tempered
Stentorian
extremely loud and powerful
Supercilious
disdainful, arrogant, haughty
Tautolgy
a repetition or redundancy
Tendentious
biased, showing marked tendencies
Tyro
novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
Venal
capable of being bought or bribed, mercenary, purchasable
Virago
a loud domineering woman, a scold or a nag
Volubility
fluency, verbosity, easy use of spoken language
