Vocabulary In School - Part 2 Flashcards
Apprehension (noun)
Anxiety or fear about the future
Contemporary
Current, modern; from the same time period
Egregious
Constantly bad or offensive
Endure (verb)
To put up with; to survive a hardship
Facetious
Playfully humorous
Farce (noun)
Absurdly ridiculous situation
Frantic
Wildly excited or active
Garrulous
Given to excessiveness; rambling talk
Gracious
Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
Impression
A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
Insipid
Uninteresting; unchallenging
Listless
Lacking energy; appearing lazy
Misconception
Incorrect understand or interpretation
Panderous
To cuter to the audience taste and desires of others inorder to exploit their weakness
Pauity
Fewness; an extreme lack of
Ponderous
Having great weight; massive
Premonition
feeling about the future
Propriety
Appropriateness of behavior
Ruse
A crafty trick
Sedentary
Not migratory; settled
Slander
False charges and malicious statements or reports about someone
Sonorous
Having or producing sound
Soporific
Causing sleep or sleepiness; boring
Specious
Having the ring of truth or possibility, but actually false
Spontaneous
Unplanned naturally occurring
Squalor
A filthy condition or quality
Stupor
A state of reduced sensibility
Superfluous
Extra; unnecessary
Aquired
Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
