Vocab List #4 Flashcards
strikingly unconventional or peculiar as to taste, stlye, or appearance
bizarre
to surround (as with troops) so as to prevent escape; to harass, to beset
beleaguer
a defensive wall or fortification; any safeguard or defense
bulwark
a small group of highly placed people united for a secret and often sinister purpose; the plots of such a group
cabal
a picture or description in which the characteristic features of the original are exaggerated or distorted so as to produce an absurd effect
caricature
a complete and often ridiculous failure
fiasco
added to for decoration or interest
garnished
the air, bearing, or manner of a person, as showing character or mood
mien
a roving hawker of quack medicines who mounted a bench and appealed to his audience by jokes, stories, and tricks; any charlatan or trickster
mountebank
basic principles first learned about a subject
rudiments
careless or negligent in habits, dres, appearance, or work; untidy
slovenly
characterized by erratic behavior or unpredictability; odd, freakish
whimsical
a cheerful and hearty willingness
alacrity
ardent desire for wealth or material possessions; covetousness
cupidity
skill in using the hands or body; mental quickness
dexterity
double-dealing; deceitfulness
duplicity
a false or misleading idea; a deceptive or unsound argument
fallacy
intense happiness; something that produces happiness
felicity
excess in eating
gluttony
unbecoming or inappropriate frivolity or jocularity; lack of seriousness
levity
a nobleness of spirit which disdains petty resentment and revage
magnanimity
tested and confirmed virtue or uprightness
probity
a natural inclination or tendency
propensity
keenness of discernment or judgement
sagacity
a pseudonym; pen name
nom de plume
