Vocab - Test 1 Flashcards
Feigned
Simulated or pretended
Fractiousness
Difficult to control
Exempt
Free from obligation or liability
Bizarre
Very strange or unusual
Bantering
Playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks
Complacency
A feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction of oneself
Intimation
An indication or hint
Levity
Inappropriate humor or frivolity
Proximity
Nearby area
Supercilious
Behaving or looking like one is superior to others
Extemporizing
Compose, perform, or produce something without preparation
Peremptorily
Insisting on immediate attention or obedience
Desolate
Deserted of people, wasteland
Contiguous
Sharing a common border
Apathetic
Showing or feeling no interest or concern
Languid
Slow and relaxed
Hauteur
Haughtiness of manner, disdainful pride
Incessant
Continuing without pause or interruption
Strident
Loud and harsh
Oculist
Ophthmologist
Indeterminate
Not exactly known, established
Prodigality
Spending money and resources freely and recklessly
Vehemently
Showing strong feeling, forceful
Credulity
A tendency to believe something as real
Cynical
Distrustful of human integrity or sincerity
Ascertain
Find something out for certain
Convivial
Friendly, lively, enjoyable
Affectation
Behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial to impress
Permeate
Spread throughout (something)
Corpulent
Fat
Innuendo
An allusive or oblique remark
Homogeneity
Being homogenous, same kind
Subterfuges
Deceit used in order to achieve ones goal
Punctilious
Showing great attention to detail or correct behavior
Labyrinth
A complicated network of passages
Disconcerting
Causing one to feel unsettled
Sinister
Giving the impression that something evil is occurring or will occur
Abstracted
Showing a lack of concentration on what is happening around one
Juxtaposition
Two things contracted
Sporadic
Occurring at irregular intervals
Luxuriated
Enjoy oneself in a luxurious way
Abstraction
Dealing with ideas rather than events