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.
Adulation
A devotion to someone. Servile flattery
Dissemble
To give a false or misleading appearance to. To conceal the truth or real nature of.
Allay
To relieve and mitigate.
Palpitate
To excessively shake and pulsate
Capacious
Very roomy and spacious
Droll
Unusually funny or entertaining
Tedium
Being meticulous and fine
Extricate
To free from a constraint
Ignominious
Deserving of ridicule
Prostrate
To lie down flat in submission
Arduous
Requiring effort way too tough
Inundate
To overwhelm
Admonish
Harshly criticize
Cognizant
To be aware of
Collusion
Secretly illegal deeds
Acquiesce
Accept something reluctantly
Preposterous
Contrary to reason or common sense. Absurd or ridiculous
Trepidation
Fear with paranoia and anxiety
Propitious
Indicating a good chance of success
Perjury
Lying in court under oath
Pusillanimous
Cowardly
Moribund
At the point of death
Censure
To disapprove
Indolent
Slothful and lazy
Encumber
To restrict or burden
Akin
Similar in character
Auspicious
Conductive to success
Beseech
To implore and ask fervently
Disparity
A great difference
Subversive
Seeking to disrupt an institution
Presumptuous
Failing to observe the limits of what is allowed
Plight
An unfortunate situation
Defray
To provide money
Lassitude
State of physical weariness, lack of energy
Conspicuous
Very obvious
Despotic
of, relating to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical.
(Tyrantrum)
Eclectic
Mix of many different things
Indefatigable
incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
Clemency
the quality of being clement; disposition to show forbearance, compassion, or forgiveness in judging or punishing; leniency; mercy.
Catalyst
An impetus of a reaction, something that starts something else
Clandestine
characterized by, done in, or executed with secrecy or concealment, especially for purposes of subversion or deception; private or surreptitious:
Dissemble
To get conceal of or to hide
Charlatan
a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses; quack.
Banal
devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite:
Acquiesce
To submit or comply. to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree; consent:
Intractable
not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate:
Cajole
to persuade by flattery
