Vocabulary 3 Flashcards
Adamant
Inflexible, not willing to change an opinion or decision
Impasse
A deadlock
Expatiate
To speak or write in length or in detail
Fiat
An official order that must be followed
Vituperation
Harsh and angry criticism
Factotum
A person who’s job includes doing different types of work
Perspicacity
The quality of having keen insight
Enervate
To weaken
Vapid
Not interesting or lively
Vicarious
Experienced or felt through another, second-hand experience
Importune
To ask or do something in a pressing and persistent way
Vacillate
To be indecisive
Vagary
An erratic or unpredictable action
Stolid
Showing little or no emotion
Prodigious
Amazing or wonderful
Fatuous
Silly; not hurting anyone; just joking
Facetious
joking in a sarcastic way
Sardonic
Joking in a mean way that can be hurtful
Abhor
To hate or detest very much
Salient
Very important or noticeable