Vocab List 5 Flashcards
Ameliorate
To make better, to relieve, to improve
*Amelia Earhart made people feel better about flying over the Atlantic Ocean.
Amenable
Open to or willing to follow advice or suggestion, tractable, malleable
*Amenable, agreeable
Amorphous
Shapeless, having no definite form
*Amorphous, formless
Buoyant
Capable of floating; cheerful
*boat floats
Cajole
To persuade with deliberate flattery
*its pronounced cayjewel
Calamity
A serious event causing distress or misfortune
*too calm, something bad has happened
Debase
To reduce in dignity
*thrown off base, not important anymore
Efface
Erase
Elucidate
To make clear, explain
*explain about some date in history
Ephemeral
Lasting a short amount of time, temporary
*A glass emerald jewel breaks
Ferocity
Savagery
*ferocious
Flourish
Thrive
*Grow
Acrimonious
Caustic
*Criminal is bitter
Haughty
Arrogant, too proud
*thinks they are hot
Impervious
Incapable of being entered or damaged
*no imperfection
Inane
Lacking significance
*Insane and not important
Indolence
Laziness
*idol laziness
Infallible
Incapable of error
*cant fall down
Inscrutable
Difficult to understand
*crusty rusty, don’t remember, hard to understand
Languid
Slow, sluggish, weak
*squid, slow
Malice
Desire to harm others
*Hitler
Oblique
Slanting, indirect, misleading
*obtuse
Opulence
Wealth, abundance
*u ence, abundance
Penitent
Showing or feeling regret of doing wrong
*felt bad about putting pet in a tent
Perfunctory
Acting routinely without caring
*functory, factory, going, not caring
