Vocabulary List #3 Flashcards
bucolic (adj)
suggesting an idyllic rural life
pretentious (adj)
making an exaggerated or outward show; ostentatious
gullible (adj)
easily deceived or cheated
convivial (adj)
friendly, agreeable; fond of feasting and merry company; jovial
discrete (adj)
apart or detached from others; separated
discreet (adj)
modestly unobtrusive; showing prudence; decorous
fabricate (v)
to make by art or skill and labor; construct
gesticulate (v)
to make or use gestures; to express by gesturing
laud (v)
to praise; extol
belabor (v)
to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary
reiterate (v)
to say or do again or repeatedly
conflagration (n)
a destructive fire, usually an extensive one
induce (v)
to bring about, produce, or cause
soporific (adj)
causing to tending to cause sleep
anarchy (n)
a state of society without government or law