vocab quiz Flashcards
Apathy
Lack of enthusiasm or interest
Avarice
extreme greed for wealth/material wealth
Cantankerous
Unwilling to cooperate; bad tempered
Craven
Lacking courage; cowardly
Culpability
A state of guilt
Desiccate
Lacking vitality; lifeless; lose water or moisture
desultory
wandering aimlessly; no plan; jumping from one thing to another
Dilatory
Wasting time; inclined to waste time and lag behing; avoiding direct confrontation
discreet
Careful in one’s words; wise self-restraint; heedful of potential consequences
Disdainful
Having arrogant superiority; lack of respect
Enmity
Feeling of a hostile person;
Equivocal
Two or more interpretations; intend to mislead
Esoteric
Understood only by few;
Inane
Pointless
Insolence
An offensive disrespectful actl rude
Insouciance
Cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you
Inundate
To be overwhelmed by; fill or cover completely, usually with water
Lugubrious
Excessively mournful
Mercenary
Used of soldiers hired by foreign army; profit orineted
Peripatetic
Traveling on foot; a person who walks from place to place; follower of Aristotle
Pithy
Concise and full of meaning
Prepossessing
Creating a favorable impression
Pungent
Causing a sharp or irritaing sensation; having a strong, sharpe taste or smell
Querulous
Usually complaining; complaining in an annoyed way
Solvent
Capable of meeting financial obligation; liquid substance capable of dissokving other usbstaces; a statement yhat solves a problem or explans how to solve the problem
Temerity
Fearless, daring; excessive confidence
Timirousness
Timid; scared
Unkempt
not properly mainteined; not cared for
Vanity
Valueless or futile; feelings of excessive pride
