Vocab List 10-15 Flashcards
Mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper especially in a difficult situation.
To be levelheaded or calm
Equanimity
In keeping with good taste and propriety; polite and restrained
To be civilized and proper
Decorous
Unassuming or moderate in the estimation of ones Abilities or achievements
To be humble or simple
Modest
The state or quality of conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals
Correctness or respectability
Propriety
Acting with or showing care and thought for the future.
To be cautious and careful
Prudent
Sedate, respectable, and unadventurous
To be dignified or solemn
Staid
A person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining
To be aloof or detached
Stoic
Express complete disapproval of, typically in public; censure
To criticize or denounce
Condemn
Harm the good reputation of soneone or something
To disgrace or slandersonething or someone
Discredit
Regard or represent as being of little worth
To ridicule or belittle
Disparage
Expressing contempt or disapproval
To express dislike or to debase something
Pejorative
To use the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own words or ideas
To copy another’s work as if it were your own; Piracy
Plagiarism
To say or write very harsh and critical things about someone or something
To denounce or put down someone or something
Vilify
Behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way
Abrupt in a manner; blunt; or Rough
Brusque
Capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue by chemical action
Description of a substance able to chemically damage something else
Acid
Caustic
Hard to control readily Angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome
Heart to manage or control
Fractious
Impervious to constraints of punishment; willful; unruly; uncontrollable
Incapable of being corrected or amended
Incorrigible
A person who does not show proper appreciation or thanks for something
A person who is ungrateful
Ingrate
Having or showing a lack of respect for other people; boldly rude or disrespectful; contemptuously impertinence; insulting
Insolent
Having a widely known and unusually bad reputation
Unfavorably known
Notorious
Inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative
Pugnacious
Deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy
Reprehensible
Causing moral or physical injury; harmful
Injurious to health
Deleterious
A feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism
Deep hatred or hostility
Enmity
Extremely wicked; hateful shockingly wicked
Hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible
Heinous
The performance by a public official or an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing ( usually especially oven at in violation of a public trust)
Malfeasance
The unwillfully formed design to hurt another without reason or cause
Direct intentions to harm others or desire to inflict injury, harm, or suffering on another, either because of a hostile impulse or out of deep-seated meanness
Malice
In a state of Foul decay or decomposition, as animal or vegetable matter; rotten
Putrid
Malicious resentful miss or hostility; spite
Rancorous
Containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation
extremely harsh, malicious, or harmful
Toxic
Mark by the characteristics of it earlier period.; antiquated
Old, old-fashioned, or relating to a primitive period
Archaic
Made commonplace or trite; stale; banal.
Overdone and cliché
Hackneyed
Severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding
Strict in Anna, attitude, or appearance
Austere
The state or quality of being mediocre, ordinary, or of moderate quality
Having no superior quality
Mediocrity
Of or pertaining to this world or earth as contrasted with heaven; worldly; earthly
Lacking interest or excitement; dealing with the earthly world instead of the heavens
Mundane
Of great weight
Slow and clumsy because of weight
Ponderous
Commonplace or dog; matter-of-fact or unimaginative;
Lacking poetic beauty; unromantic
Prosaic
Not moving; relatively still; staying in the vicinity
Sedentary
Anticipation of adversity or misfortune; suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear
Apprehension
A person or thing that foreshadows or fortells the coming of someone or something
Someone or something that announces or signals the approach of another
Harbinger
Portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious
Giving an indication of that oncoming events
Ominous
A feeling of anticipation or of anxiety over a future event; Presentiment
A forewarning
Premonition
For fear; fearful
Scared
Timorous
Tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation
A state of hesitation or concern
Trepidation
Fully sufficient or more than adequate for the purpose or needs
plenty
Ample
Of large scope; covering or involving much
Detailed
Comprehensive
Having or yeilding abundant supply
Fullness
Copious
To pass into or through every part of
Saturate
Permeated
Spread throughout
Distributed
pervasive
Extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force
Excessive
Prodigious
Abundantly supplied; filled
Sufficiently provided
Replete
Beginning to exist or develop
New
Nascent
A person who is new to the circumstances
Beginner
Novice
Worthy of imitation; commendable
Representing the best of something
Exemplary
Chief and importance or impact
Having superior power; Dominant
Paramount
Done or achieved with little effort or difficulty
Easy
Facile
Taking or showing extreme care about minute details
Being precise
Meticulous
To represent in an ideal form or character
To think or represent someone or something as being perfect
Idealize
A list or itemized display
Catalog
Excessively particular, critical, or demanding
Hard to please
Fastidious
Of a pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations
Focusing on practical results and facts instead of speculation and opinion
Pragmatic
Containing or expressing praise
Laudatory
To regard with respect, reverence, or heartfelt difference
To be respected
Venerated
Any system of persons or things ranked one above the other
Arrangement based on rank or importance
Hierarchy
Having assets in excess of liabilities
Being able to pay one’s debts
Solvent
