Vocabulary 10 Flashcards
abjure
To renounce, repudiate, or retract especially with formal solemnity
acumen
Keen insight or shrewdness
Bellicose
Inclined or eager to fight or aggressively hostile
Enfranchise
To endowed with the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote
Fatuous
Vacuously smugly and unconsciously foolish
Feckless
Feeble or ineffective or careless and irresponsible or futile
Fiduciary
Of or relating to holding of something in trust for another or a person down to act for another person’s benefits
Gauche
Lacking social polish or tactless or awkward or crude or maladroit
Hegemony
The predominant influence as of a state or region or group over another
Incontrovertible
Impossible to dispute unquestionable or not open to question
inculcate
To impress something up on the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition
Jejune
Not interesting or double or insipid or lacking maturity
Kowtow
To Neil and touch the four head to the ground and expression of deep respect worship or submission
Lexicon
A Dictionary especially of Hebrew Latin or Greek or a stock of terms used in a particular profession language feels social class or subject
Lugubrious
Mournful dismal or gloomy especially to an exaggerated affected or ludicrous degree
Moiety
Half or a part portion or share
nonsectarian
Not limited to or associated with a particular religious denomination
Orthography
The art or study of standard spelling
Ontology
The branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being
Precipice
A cliff with a vertical or near vertical or overhanging face or a situation of great peril
querulous
Full of complaints or complaining
Quotidian
Daily or usual or customary or every day or ordinary or common place
Recapitulate
To repeat and concise form or to review as by brief summary
Salutary
Favorable to or promoting health or wholesome or conducive to some beneficial purpose
tautology
Needless repetition of the same sense in different words or redundancy or an empty statement composed of similar statements in a fashion that makes it logically true one of the simpler statements are factually true or false
Tawdry
Cheap and gaudy an appearance and quality showy or cheap
Unctuous
Characterized by affected exaggerated or insincere earnestness or piousness or excessively smooth Sauve or smug
Valediction
An act of bidding farewell or taking leave or an utterance or ration or the like given in bidding farewell
Winnow
To separate the chaff from by means of a current of air or true rid of undesirable parts or two separate or distinguish the valuable from the worthless parts
Yeoman
Attendant servant or less or official and the noble household or a British farmer who cultivates his own land or a petty officer in the Navy generally one who has clerical duties in the U.S. Navy
