Vocabulary-38 Flashcards
Ascetic
A monk; a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
Abating
To lessen; diminish.
Audacious
Fearless.
Extremely original.
Insolent.
Lively.
Austerity
Severity.
Callous
Hardened; cruel, insensitive.
Callow
Immature.
Candor
Complete honesty.
Chieftain
A leader of a group.
Civil
Community.
Kind, obliging.
Comatose
Lacking alertness or energy; torpid.
Dexterity
Aptitude, ability.
Disbanding
Breaking up or dissolving.
Dispersing.
Disingenuous
Lacking in candor.
Insincere.
Frivolity
Silliness, childishness.
Gluttony
Excessive eating or drinking.
Impudence
Audacity, insolence.
Indomitable
Unconquerable.
Intrepidity
Courage.
Latent
Dormant, hidden.
Laudatory
Praiseful.
Magnanimous
Giving and kind.
Maudlin
Over-emotional.
Misanthropic
Unsociable.
Newfangled
Quite recent.
Obtuse
Slow to understand. Stolid.
Pernicious
Bad, baleful.
Pristine
Clean, pure; primeval.
Prosaic
Unimaginative.
Proselytizing
Recruiting.
Secular
Not spiritual or religious; unreligious.
Seemliness
Decency.
Sluggish
Lacking in energy; lazy.
Somnolent
Sleepy, soporific.
Sophomoric
Inexperienced.
Stagnant
Motionless; dirty.
Sycophantic
Parasitic.
Tedious
Dull, monotonous.
Vivacious
Lively, spirited.
