Vocabulary Set #4 Flashcards
Abhorrent
Abhorrent means offensive to the mind; detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive.
Animosity
Animosity means a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility.
Brevity
Brevity means the attribute of being brief, fleeting, short, or concise.
Immutable
Immutable means not subject or susceptible to change or variation in form or quality or nature.
Impediment
Impediment means something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress; any structure that makes progress difficult.
Indignation
Indignation Indignation means a feeling of righteous anger; call your anger at an unjust situation.
Indolence
Indolence means inactivity resulting from a dislike of work.
Interment
Interment means the ritual placing a corpse in a grave.
Lament
Lament as a noun means a cry of sorrow and grief; a song or poem as a memorial to a dead person.
Pensive
Pensive means deeply or seriously thoughtful.
Placid
Placid means (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves; no easily irritated; calm.
Prudent
Prudent means careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment
Purport
Purport as a verb means to have the often specious appearance of being, intending or claiming; purpose of intend; purport as a noun means the intended meaning of a communication; the pervading meaning or tenor.
Retribution
Retribution means a justly deserved penalty; the act of correcting for your wrong doing.
Satiate
Satiate means the fill to satisfaction; to overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.
