Vocab Week 5 Flashcards
To portray, sketch, or describe, in accurate and vivid detail, go represent pictorially
Delineate
S: depict, render, picture
Sharpness (particularly of the mind or senses)
Acuity
S: keenness, acuteness
A: dullness, obtuseness
Marked by evil and corruptions, devoid of moral principles
Depraved
S: perverted, degenerate, vicious, corrupt
A: moral virtuous, upright, uncorrupted
To weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical victor of; enfeebled, hamstring
Enervate
S: impair, cripple, paralyze
A: invigorate, strengthen, buttress
Intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret
Esoteric
S: occult, cryptic, arcane, recondite
A: accessible, comprehensible, intelligible
Fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive
Fecund
S: fertile teeming, prolific
A: infertile, barren, unproductive
An arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or consciousness
Fiat
S: edicts dictum, ukase
A fabrication of mind; an arbitrary notion
Figment
S: creation, invention, fancy
To acquire the result of effort; to gayer and store away, as for future use
Garner
S: collect, accumulated accrue
A: scatter, squander, waste
To set apart as holy or sacred, sanctify, consecrate; to honor greatly, revere
Hallow
S: venerate, bless
A: desecrate, defile, profane
A peculiarity that serves o distinguish or identify
Idiosyncrasy
S: eccentricity, quirk, mannerism
Shame an disgrace
Ignominy
S: dishonor, humiliation, disrespect, odium
A: honor, glory, acclaim
Earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary
Mundane
S: prosaic, humdrum, routine, sublunary
A:
Earthly worldly concerned with what is ordinary
Mundane
A subtle or slight variation delicate gradation or shade of difference
Nuance
