Vocabulary Upto May 31 Flashcards
Sweetly or smoothly flowing
Mellifluous
Stinging or bitter in nature
Acrimonious
Alluring by a show of flashy or vulgar attractions; tawdry
Meretricious
Deserving of praise; laudable
Meritorious
Characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference, fawning; obedient
Obsequious
To hold or express an opinion
Opine
A deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery
Perfidy
Causing insidious harm or ruin
Pernicious
Overly particular; fussy
Persnickety
Holding tenaciously to a purpose, course of action, or opinion; resolute; stubborn or obstinate
Pertinacious
Brief, forceful, and meaningful in expression
Pithy
Lacking courage or resolution; cowardly
Pusillanimous
Sarcastic
Sardonic
Arising spontaneously or from an obscure or unknown place
Idiopathic
A person, as a handyman or servant, employed to do all kinds of work around the house
Factotum
Exuding fragrance; aromatic
Redolent
The essence of a thing in its purest and most concentrated form
Quintessence
A society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding
Dystopia
Fierce; cruel; savagely brutal
Truculent
A person of degraded, primitive, or brutal character
Troglodyte
Characterized by friendship and good will
Amicable
Something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time
Anachronism
Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
Boisterous
Marked by rude or peremptory shortness
Brusque
Leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal
Peremptory
A difficult problem
Conundrum
Harmful to living things
Deleterious
A political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices
Demagogue
Quietly and steadily persevering, especially in detail or exactness
Diligent
Soothing
Demulcent
