Vocabulary Flashcards
Receptive to suggestions or criticism?
Amenable
Responsible for something legally
Amenable
Strikingly unconventional or peculiar as to taste, style, or appearance
Bizarre
A defensive wall or fortification; any safeguard or defense
Bulwark
To fortify with a bulwark; to protect
Bulwark
A small group of highly placed people united for a secret and often sinister purpose; the plots of such a group
Cabal
A picture or description in which the characteristic features of the original are exaggerated or distorted so as to produce an absurd effect?
Caricature
A complete and often ridiculous failure?
Fiasco
Added to for decoration or interest?
Garnished
Spoken casually without thought?
Glib
Smoothly spoken, often characterized by insincerity?
Glib
Cynical from overexposure to something?
Jaded
Worn out from use?
Jaded
Bravery?
Prowess
Superior skill?
Prowess
Basic principles first learned about a subject?
Rudiments
Characterized by erratic behavior or unpredictability; odd, freakish
Whimsical
A step-by-step explanation of something by comparing it with something else?
Analogy
Daring; boldness?
Audacity
Impudence?
Audacity
Good manners; politeness?
Civility
Skill in using the hands or body; mental quickness?
Dexterity
Double-dealing; deceitfulness?
Duplicity
Something that has immediate advantages?
Expediency
A false or misleading idea; a deceptive or unsound argument?
Fallacy
Excess in eating?
Gluttony
Unbecoming or inappropriate frivolity or jocularity; lack of seriousness?
Levity
A nobleness of spirit which disdains petty resentment and revenge?
Magnanimity
Depth of intellect or emotion?
Profundity
A natural inclination or tendency?
Propensity
Any opening in a solid figure?
Aperture
Great warmth of emotion of desire?
Ardor
Skilled trickery; cleverness?
Artifice
Openness of mind; impartiality?
Candor
Frankness of expression; straightforwardness?
Candor
The end or resolution of something?
Culmination
The climax?
Culmination
Courtesy; respect?
Deference
Complying to the opinions or desires of others?
Deference
Presumptuous, brash behavior, often insulting?
Effrontery
The face or front of anything; especially, a deceptive false front?
Façade
The holding of an office and the administering of its duties; also, the term of an office?
Incumbency
An assumption from which a conclusion is gathered?
Premise
Government funds given to support a business thought to be in the public interest?
Subsidy
Financial aid given by one party to another?
Subsidy
Decision; an act of conscious choice
Volition