Vocabulary 1 Flashcards
To make greater, richer, more powerful
Aggrandize
Lacking freshness or originally; commonplace, ordinary
Banal
Trickery, especially in legal dealing; the use of subterfuge or trickery in debate
Chicanery
To indicate
Denote
One who organizes and manages a business, assuming the risk of profit or loss
Entrepreneur
An inanimate object thought to have inherent magical powers, and therefore worshiped
Fetish
Hatefully bad or wicked; abominable
Heinous
Thinking deeply or seriously, often or sad or melancholy things
Pensive
To evoke resentment in
Pique
Expressing sorrow; mournful
Plaintive
Forceful and effective; keen; penetrating
Trenchant
Green with growing plants or grass; green in color
Verdant
To exaggerate
Aggrandize
Anything irrationally reverenced; obsession
Fetish
To arouse
Pique
Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated
Verdant
Mis-1
Badly, wrongly
Mis-2
Hater, hatred
Trans-
(Tra) across
Un-
Not
Struggle, contest
AGON
To fall, to befall, to happen
CAD, CAS, CID
To say
DIC, DICT
To bear; to carry
FER
To swear
JUR
Death
MORT
All
OMNI
To hang, to weigh, to pay
PEND, PENS
Pertaining to
-ac, -yer
One who
-Ian
Result of
-men