Vocab Q1 2021 Flashcards
vicissitudes
1a : the quality or state of being changeable : mutability. b : natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs. 2a : a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition the vicissitudes of daily life.
Equidistant
at equal distances.
astute
having or showing an ability to accurately assess situations or people and turn this to one’s advantage.
apotheosis
- the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax
- the elevation of someone to divine status; deification.
rhapsodic
1 : extravagantly emotional : rapturous. 2 : resembling or characteristic of a rhapsody
supercilious
behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.
punctilious
showing great attention to detail or correct behavior.
jettisoning
- throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship.
- abandon or discard (someone or something that is no longer wanted).
erudition
- the quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning; scholarship.
melancholic
- feeling or expressing pensive sadness.
- suffering from or denoting a severe form of depression.
concomitant
noun
- naturally accompanying or associated.
adjective
- a phenomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something.
incorrigible
adjective
- (of a person or their tendencies) not able to be corrected, improved, or reformed.
libertine
noun
- a person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principles or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters.
- a person who rejects accepted opinions in matters of religion; a freethinker.
adjective
- characterized by a disregard of morality, especially in sexual matters
- freethinking in matters of religion.
chrysalis
- a quiescent insect pupa, especially of a butterfly or moth.
- the hard outer case enclosing a chrysalis.
- a transitional state.
didactic
- intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.
- in the manner of a teacher, particularly so as to treat someone in a patronizing way.