Vocabulary Flashcards
What does ‘integral’ mean?
Being an essential or necessary component or characteristic.
Define ‘crude’.
Constructed with simple methods and materials; not skillfully made.
What is the meaning of ‘recalcitrant’?
Stubbornly resistant to authority.
What does ‘vigor’ refer to?
Active force or energy; enthusiasm or intensity.
What is the definition of ‘enforce’?
To ensure observance of laws and rules.
What does ‘haphazard’ mean?
Lacking any obvious formal organization.
Define ‘inevitably’.
In a manner that is sure or certain to happen; unavoidably.
What does ‘surreptitiously’ mean?
Done secretly to keep something from being discovered and disapproved of.
Fill in the blank: ‘______’ is defined as being an essential or necessary component or characteristic.
integral
Fill in the blank: ‘______’ refers to active force or energy; enthusiasm or intensity.
vigor
True or False: ‘Haphazard’ means lacking any obvious formal organization.
True
What is the definition of ‘calloused’?
A part of the body having an area of hardened skin.
What does ‘timbre’ refer to?
The quality of a voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity.
What does ‘curative’ mean?
Able to cure disease.
What is a ‘skiff’?
A shallow, flat-bottomed open boat with sharp and square stern.
What does it mean to ‘revolt’?
To rise in rebellion.
What does ‘intractable’ mean?
Hard to control or deal with (difficult or stubborn).
Contempt
Noun
Feeling that is beneath consideration. Deserving in anger
Synonym disrespect
Antonym nice
‘relish’
noun
Connotation: +/great enjoyment; Denotation: =/ needing consideration, deserving of anger
‘deftly’
adverb
Connotation: + in a manner that is skillful and fast in movement
‘awed’
adjective
Connotation: +/process of obtaining wonderment
emancipation
noun
Denotation: freedom from rules, laws, restrictions
‘congregate’
verb
Denotation: to gather in a crowd or mass
