Vocabulary 2 Flashcards
- Confluence
(n): the act or process of merging
- Conjugal
(adj): of or relating to marriage of a couple eg conjugal meeting in prison
- Contentious
(n): Likely to cause people to argue
- Conundrum
(n): A confusing or difficult problem
- Copious
(adj): very large in amount or number
- Corpulence
(n): state of being fat
- Coterie
(n): intimate exclusive interest group
- Credulous
(adj): easily fooled or cheated
- Cryptic
(adj): difficult to understand
- Curmudgeon
(n): miser
- Dearth
(n): The state of not having enough of something
- Demagogue
(n): a leader who makes use of false claims to increase power
- Desecrate
(v): to damage a holy thing
- Diatribe
(n):An angry long criticising speech
- Diffidence
(n): The state of lacking confidence
- Dilatory
(adj): causing a delay
47: Disaffected
(adj): no longer willing to support the government
- Discursive
(adj): moving from topic to topic without order
- Dissemble
(v): to hide ones true feelings
- Disparage
(v): to describe as weak, bad, etc.
- Dispassionate
(adj): not affected by emotion
- Dissuade
(adj): to convince not to do something
- Dissuade
(v): to convince not to do something
- Divination
(n): act of using special powers to predict the future
- Dotard
(n): person in old age; senile
- Duplicity
(adj): dishonest behaviour to trick someone
- Egregious
(adj): very bad or noticeable
- Elegiac
(adj): having a mournful quality
- Elucidate
(v): to make clear to explain
- Emanate
(v): to send forth or emit
