Vocabulary HW#7 Flashcards
Conflagration
An extensive fire; blaze; inferno
Ailment
An illness typically a minor one; disease; sickness
Docile
Submissive; compliant; obedient; dutiful
Exonerate
Absolve; acquit; release someone from a duty or obligation; discharge
Flamboyant
Tending to attract attention because of their exuberance, confidence, and stylishness; vibrant; lively; colorful; bright
Innumerable
Countless; too many to be counted
Loquacious
Talkative
Mundane
Dull; tedious; boring
Earthly rather than heavenly
Pliant
Pliable; flexible; easily influenced
Recalcitrant
Uncooperative; intractable; defiant; rebellious
Reciprocate
Respond to by making a corresponding one;
Moving backward and forward in a straight line
Experience the same for someone as that person does for oneself
Secular
Not religiously or spiritually based;
Temporal; nonreligious
Tenacious
Firm; tight; fast; determined; dogged; persistent
Travesty
A false, absurd, or distorted representation of something
Represent in a false or distorted way
Ubiquitous
Omnipresent; ever-present pervasive; everywhere