Vocabulary Flashcards
Fledgling
A person or organization that is immature, inexperienced, or underdeveloped
Consummate
To complete
Complete or perfect
Being of the highest or most extreme degree
Plastic
Always changing
Pliable; impressionable
Confound
To cause to become confused or perplexed.
To fail to distinguish; mix up: confound fiction and fact.
To make (something bad) worse: Do not confound the problem by losing your temper.
Repudiate
To reject the validity or authority of.
To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust: repudiated the accusation.
To refuse to recognize or pay a debt: repudiate a debt.
To refuse to have anything to do with: to disown.
Emphatic
Expressed or performed with emphasis: responded with an emphatic “no.”
Forceful and definite in expression or action.
Recapitulate
To repeat in concise form.
To summarize or repeat in concise form.
Facetious
Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.
Patent
Noun: A grant made by a government that confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a set period of time.
Adj: obvious, plain. Explicit and obvious.
Synonyms: plain, obvious, palpable, unmistakable, glaring, notorious
Laudable
Deserving commendation; praiseworthy
Pedantic
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formula rules: a pedantic attention to details