Vocabulary Flashcards
Beguile is:
to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
Vicarious is:
performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another: vicarious punishment.
taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute.
Ascetic is:
a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reason
Licentious is:
sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
Pecuniary is:
of or pertaining to money: pecuniary difficulties.
consisting of or given or exacted in money or monetary payments: pecuniary tributes.
Vacuous is:
without contents; empty: the vacuous air.
lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind.
Allocate is:
to set apart for a particular purpose; assign or allot: to allocate funds for new projects.
to fix the place of; locate.
Capricious is:
subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic: He’s such a capricious boss I never know how he’ll react.
Epistle is:
a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.
Impetus is:
a moving force; impulse; stimulus: The grant for building the opera house gave impetus to the city’s cultural life.
Efficacy is:
However one wants to do something
Reticent is:
disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reserved.
reluctant or restrained.
Crass is:
without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid: crass commercialism; a crass misrepresentation of the facts.
Interloper
Someone who meddles with other people and their situations personally
Corroborate
To make correct to confirm
Inexorable
Unyielding or unalterable. Cannot be changed.
Insipid
To be bland, lacking taste or characteristic
Nefarious
Extremely wicked or villainous
Physiognomy
The face or countenance. Especially when considered to be an index of the character
Retinue
A body of retainers in attendance upon an important personage
Blasé
Indifferent or bored with life. Unimpressed or jaded.
Lugubrious
Mournful, dismal, gloomy.
Feckless
Ineffective, incompetent, futile
Affront
A personally offensive act or word. A deliberate act or display or disrespect.
