Vocab Test: 4-28-15 Flashcards
Propitious
Presenting favorable conditions
Pyre
A pile or heap of wood or other combustible material.
Rebuff
A blunt or abrupt rejection
Recapitulate
To review by brief summary
Replete
Abundantly supplied or provided; filled.
Reprobate
A wicked person
Reticence
The state of being reserved; restraint
Scintillate
To emit sparks
Sequester
To remove or withdraw into solitude
Satiate
To supply with anything to excess as to disgust or weary
Semblance
Outward aspect or appearance. Unreliable; not true
Swarthy
Dark skin color or complexion
Tangent
In immediate physical contact; touching
Tenet
Any opinion, principle, doctrine, etc. held by a group or movement
Underhanded
Not open; secret and crafty or dishonorable
Vale
Valley; depression
Veneer
A thin layer of wood or other material
Veracity
Habitual observance of truth in speech or statement; truthfulness.
Zenith
The highest point
Prolific
Producing offspring, young, fruit, abundantly.
