Vocabulary Quiz 8 Flashcards
Fastidious
(adj.) Excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please.
Requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking
Iconoclast
(n.) A person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional
institutions. A breaker or destroyer of images,
especially those set up for religious veneration.
Intrepid
(adj.) Fearless; undaunted; daring; brave
Laconic
(adj.) Using few words; expressing much in few words; concise, brief.
Insatiable
(adj.) Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased
Affectation
(n.) An effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully
possessed; the pretense of actual possession< an affectation of interest in art: affectation of great
wealth> Conspicuous artificiality of manner or appearance; effort to attract notice by pretense,
assumption, or any assumed peculiarity. A trait, action, or expression characterized by such
artificiality: a man of a thousand affectations.
Mercurial
(adj.) Of or pertaining to the god Mercury. Changeable; volatile;
fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercurial nature. Animated; lively; sprightly; quick-witted.
Demur
(v.) To make objection, especially on the grounds of scruples; take exception;
object.
Pusillamimous
(adj.) Cowardly, lacking courage; timid, craven
Derelict
(adj.) abandoned, left or deserted. neglectful of duty, negligent
Remunerate
(v.) To pay, recompense, or reward for work, trouble; to yield a recomense
Efface
(v.) to wipe out; do away with; expunge, to rub out, eras; to make oneself onself inconspicuous, withdraw shyly
Germane
(adj.) Closely or significantly related, relevant, pertinent
Incumbent
(adj.) Currently occupying a position, . Obligatory, followed by on/upon <a>. (N.) holder of office</a>
Esoteric
(adj.) Understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; poetry full of esoteric allusions, belonging to slect few, prive, secret
