vocabulary from big list Flashcards
caprice
impulsive behavior or notion
mien
appearance
fastidious
difficult to satisfy; stubborn
pliant
easily influenced; yielding; easy to bend
assail
to attack violently with words or blows
abjure
to recant, renounce, or repudiate
alacrity
promptness in response; readiness
ductile
capable of being fashioned; easily influenced
felicity
a pleasing manner or quality
pedantic
ostentatiously learned
induce
to motivate to action
archly
brashly
insipid
tasteless
abrogate
to abolish, do away with, or annul by authority
accost
to approach aggressively
stricture
a close restraint or limit
effusion
unrestrained expression of words or feelings
indolent
habitually lazy
celerity
rapidity of motion or action
abstemious
moderate in drinking and eating
acumen
quickness or keenness of judgment or action
panegyric
formal or elaborate praise
auspicious
attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success, prosperous
reproof
criticism of fault
belie
to misrepresent; to represent falsely
obstinate
not easily persuaded
bellicose
warlike; hostile
precipitance
undue hastiness
bowdlerize
to remove objectionable or offensive material
appertain
to be relevant
deference
affected regard for one’s wishes
chicanery
deception by trickery
expostulation
the act of discussing to dissuade
approbation
praise
diffuse
to scatter
implacable
not capable of being appeased or changed
churlish
vulgar
circumlocution
the use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language
propitious
benevolent
laconic
concise
iniquitous
characterized by wickedness
asperity
harshness (uneven?)
obsequious
exhibiting an affected, fawning attentiveness
circumnavigate
to proceed completely around
insolent
insultingly contemptuous
veracity
devotion to truth or accuracy
imprudent
not practical
enumerate
to count or list
ingratiate
to gain favorable acceptance by deliberate effort
languor
sluggishness
diffident
distrustful, not confident
purport
to profess
deciduous
falling off or shedding; not lasting; ephemeral
deleterious
dangerous; having a harmful effect
injunction
an order, or the act of
coquetry
flirtation
dissemble
to put on the appearance of
dawdle
spend time idly, aimlessly
assiduous
marked by close attention
enervate
to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of
enfranchise
to free, to endow with the rights of citizenship
peevish
marked by ill-temper
despond
to become discouraged or hopeless
expedient
appropriate to seize or capture opportunity
incumbent
imposed as a duty, obligatory
rectitude
moral integrity
pertinent
relevant
odious
deserving hatred or repugnance
repine
to feel or express discontent
epiphany
a revelation; a sudden manifestation of meaning or essence
defection
desertion
vexatious
distressing, troubling
evanescent
vanishing, short-lived
expurgate
to remove erroneous, objectionable, vulgar material from publication
facetious
playfully jocular, humorous
fatuous
foolish or silly in a smug or self-satisfying way
affable
friendly
prodigious
enormous
officious
informal
derision
the act of ridicule
incredulous
unwilling to believe
chagrin
distress by humiliation
volatility
transitory
feckless
lacking purpose, ineffective
gauche
awkward or tactless
homogeneous
uniform in structure or composition, the same
incognito
concealed
profligate
extravagant
perturbation
a disturbance
exigent
urgent
sanguine
pertaining to blood
cogent
relevant
abate
to put an end to
sagacious
wise
addle
to confuse
penurious
stingy
iterate
to say again
visceral
felt deeply
gallivant
to roam about for pleasure
incontrovertible
unquestionable
inculcate
to instill
interpolate
to insert
jejune
dull
kinetic
relating to motion
lexicon
a vocabulary of a particular type
loquacious
talkative
lugubrious
gloomy
nihilism
a denial of the existence of the real, skepticism
