Vocabulary Flashcards
Nascent
Coming into existence and showing signs of future potential.
Iteration
The repetition of a process.
Remitance
A sum of money sent, especially by mail.
Parasite
An organism that lives on or in another organism and benefits by deriving nutrients from it’s host.
Cyclical
Occurring in cycles; reoccurring.
Bigot
A person who is intolerant towards those holding different opinions.
Heliophile
One attracted or adapted to sunlight.
Ubiquitous
Present, appearing or found everywhere.
Emancipation
The process of being set free from legal, political, or social restrictions; liberation
Anthropomorphize
To ascribe human features to something.
Ascribe
To attribute something to.
Unsolicited
Not asked for.
Volatilize
To cause a substance to evaporate or disperse in vapour.
Filament
A slender or threadlike object or fibre, especially one found in animal and plant structures.
Expatriate
A person who lives outside of their native country.
Effervescence
Bubbles in a liquid.
Hiraeth
A longing for a home that you can’t return to, or that never was.
Ephemeral
Lasting a very short time.
Limerance
State of being infatuated with another person.
Sonorous
An imposingly deep and full sound.
Mellifluous
A sound that is sweet and smooth, pleasing to hear.
Aurora
Dawn.
Epoch
A particular period of in history or in a person’s life.
Petrichor
The pleasant, earthy smell after rains.
Nefarious
Wicked, villainous, despicable.
Example: Sometimes politicians oppose reform for nefarious reasons.
Serendipity
The chance occurrence of events in a beneficial way.
Supine
Lying face upwards.
Denouement
The resolution of a narrative.
Sonder
The realization that every passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own.
Cromulent
Appearing legitimate but actually being spurious.
Vindicated
To show that someone that has been criticized, or doubted is correct, true or reasonable.
Example: He insists the documents will vindicate him by showing that the CIA program was vital and produced important information.
Disillusioned
Disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed.
Example: Smith was disillusioned with his own compensation and position in the firm.
Vitriolic
Filled with bitter criticism or malice.
Rhetoric
The art of effectively persuading someone in
Semiotics
The study of signs and symbols and how they are used.
Simulacrum
An image or representation of someone of something.
Panoptic
Showing or seeing the whole at one view.
Atopia (2 definitions)
A society which does not have territorial borders.
OR
An inhospitable location that cannot be turned into a dwelling-place
Agglomoration
A mass collection of things; an assemblage.
Symbiosis
A close and often long-term interaction between two different biological species.
Predicate
To declare; to connote; imply.
Example: His retraction predicates a change of attitude.
Aberration
Something that differs from the norm (n)
Acquiesce
To agree without protesting (v)
Clandestine
Secret (adj)
Deride
To laugh at mockingly, scorn (v)
Erudite
Characterized by great knowledge; learned (adj)
Extol
To praise, revere (v)
Inveterate
Settled or confirmed in a habit, practice, feeling, or the like (adj)
Example: an inveterate gambler.
Lithe
Bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible (adj)
Example: the lithe body of a ballerina.
Modicum
A moderate or small amount (n)
Example: He hasn’t even a modicum of common sense.
Myriad
A very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things (n)
Reify
To convert into or regard as a concrete thing (v)
Example: to reify a concept.
Multiplicity
A large number or variety (n)
Example: a multiplicity of errors.
Corollary
An immediate consequence or easily drawn conclusion.
