Vocab wk1 Flashcards
To persist in anything undertaken maintain a purpose in spite of difficulty obstacles or discouragement continue steadfastly
Persevere
arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority. Synonyms: despotism, absolutism, dictatorship.
Tyranny
a druggist; a pharmacist.
a pharmacy or drugstore.
(especially in England and Ireland) a druggist licensed to prescribe medicine
Apothecary
Tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome
Contentious
Originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native
Indigenous
to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one’s grief.
to appease; satisfy; allay; relieve.
to soothe, calm, or mollify.
Assuage
to assuage one’s pain.
to assuage one’s hunger.
to assuage his fears; to assuage her anger.
Reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligations.
The quality or state of being pious.
Dutiful respect or regard for parents, homeland, etc.
Piety
a prayer full of piety
(saintly piety)
Wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious.
Malevolent
His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
To roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust, or the like, as for refreshment.
To live self-indulgently; luxuriate; revel: to wallow in luxury.
To flounder about; move along or proceed clumsily or with difficulty: A gunboat wallowed toward port.
to surge up or billow forth, as smoke or heat.
Wallowing
Goats wallowed in the dust.
(To wallow in sentimentality.)
(Waves of black smoke wallowed into the room.)
A temporary stay.
To stay for a time in a place; live temporarily.
Sojourn
during his sojourn in Paris
(to sojourn on the Riviera for two months)
An act or instance of dispensing; distribution.
Something that is distributed or given out.
Dispensation
Free from commotion or tumult; peaceful; quiet; calm.
Tranquil
a tranquil country place
Refractory or unruly.
Readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome.
Fractious
(a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness)
(an incorrigibly fractious young man)
Promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable.
Favored by fortune; prosperous; fortunate.
Auspicious
an auspicious occasion
The act of vexing
Vexations
