Vocabulary Unit 4 Flashcards
What means indifferent, bored as a result of enjoying many pleasures; apathetic?
Blasé
What means to reduce to nothing; to make ineffective or inoperative; to declare legally invalid or void?
Annul
What means to support, give a boost to; a long pillow or cushion; a supporting post?
Bolster
What means to feel sorrow or express regret or disapproval?
Deplore
What means of little importance, not worthy of serious attention; not meant seriously?
Frivolous
What means to bring together for service or battle; to gather or summon; to amount to, comprise, include; a list of men for military service; a gathering, accumulation?
Muster
What means a person or thing of no importance?
Nonentity
What means to trouble, haunt, or fill the mind?
Obsess
What means elaborately decorated; showily splendid?
Ornate
What means to remove, drive out of a position or place?
Oust
What means to read carefully and thoroughly?
Peruse
What means full of tiny holes; able to be penetrated by air or water?
Porous
What means a high point of land extending into water?
Promontory