Vocabulary July 6 2018 Flashcards
remonstrate (verb) rebus: lemon - steak
If you remonstrate with someone, you protest to them about something you do not approve of or agree with by “showing” them an argument, and you try to get it changed or stopped.
He remonstrated with the referee
1590s, “make plain,” “to demonstrate” “to exhibit or present strong reasons against” is from 1690s. from Latin remonstrare “point out, show,”
from re-, intensive prefix + Latin monstrare “to show” (see monster).
obstreperous (adjective)
rebus: strap - poros (belt strap with holes with water pouring through)
adjective noisy or rough, especially in resisting restraint or control .
The obstreperous passenger refused to leave the plane and had to be escorted out by airport security.
Derived forms obstreperously (obˈstreperously) adverb obstreperousness (obˈstreperousness) noun
Word origin of ‘obstreperous’ C16: from Latin,
from obstrepere = ob- against + strepere to roar
cadge (pronounced like badge) rebus: bird cage with eggs on the floor
to get by begging
The man standing at the intersection with a sign that read “homeless Vet” cadged a dollar from the car stopped at the light.
truculent (adjective)
rebus: truck for rent
Eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.
‘the truculent attitude of farmers to cheaper imports
contumacious (adjective)
rebus: can of tomatoes
stubbornly disobedient; resistant to authority; willfully obstinate
probably derived from contumax “haughty, stubborn, insolent, unyielding,”
com-, intensive prefix , + tumere “to swell up”
(from PIE root *teue- “to swell”).
Metaphor: drawing in breath and swelling up in anticpation of bursting out in abusive speech
The contumacious boy sat in his chair and refused to do anything the teacher asked him.
ROOT Study: *teuə-, also *teu-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to swell.” words based on the Teu root: 1. tumor 2. Greek tylos: callus, lump 3. tuber (a fat bulbous edible root) 4. tuberculosis (swollen lungs) butter; contumely; creosote; intumescence; intumescent; protuberance; protuberant; psychosomatic; somato-; -some (3) “body, the body;” soteriology; Tartuffe; thigh; thimble; thousand; thole (n.); thumb; tumescent; tumid; tumor; truffle; tuber; tuberculosis; tumult; tyrosine. It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Avestan tuma “fat;” “ Latin tumere “to swell,” tumidus “swollen,” tumor “a swelling;” Lithuanian tukti “to become fat;” Lithuanian taukas, Old Church Slavonic tuku, Russian tuku “fat of animals;” Old Irish ton “rump.” tumor (n.) tumult (n.) tumescent (adj.) tumid (adj.) tumescence (n.) intumescent (adj.) intumescence (n.)
garrulous (adjective)
rebus: barrel bus (bus that looks like a horizontal wooden wine barrel)
pointlessly or annoyingly talkative
Synonyms: talkative loquacious garrulous voluble
- talkative may imply a readiness to engage in talk or a disposition to enjoy conversation. 〈a talkative neighbor〉
- loquacious suggests the power of expressing oneself articulately, fluently, or glibly. 〈a loquacious spokesperson〉
- garrulous implies prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity. 〈garrulous traveling companions〉
- voluble suggests a free, easy, and unending loquacity. 〈a voluble raconteur〉
meddlesome
rebus: metal sun
meddlesome (adjective describing a persons actions in a particular situation)
inclined to meddle
from the verb: meddle to involve oneself in other people’s private concerns which do not concern you; to interfere or intrude into someone else’s business
The man got angry when his mother-in-law made a meddlesome phone call to his wife, and suggested that she should leave him.
core rebus: ear of corn
- the essential part of something;
- the center of something;
- an attribute that thoroughly imbues someone
You use “to the core” after an adjective to make a statement stronger, especially a statement describing how someone feels or describing the character of someone or something.
- Apple’s core marketing strategy
- The core reason for that decision.
- He is a hard core baseball fan.
- The insurance industry is rotten to the core.
- Loxton, the artist, was English to the core yet she was inspired by France. idiom: “to the core”
inveigh
rebus: inn situated on a bay (inn + bay)
- to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently
- to attack strongly with words;
- to make a violent verbal or written attack
feckless
rebus: freckles ass
lacking determination; unable to do anything properly because of inner weakness or irresponsibility
derived from the root feck as in effect.
Therefore, a feckless person is without any effect (less = not containing)
