Vocabulary Week 5 Flashcards
Insipid
Uninteresting: unchallenging
Indolent
Lazy
Listless
Lacking energy
Torpor
Laziness; inactivity; Dullness
Alienated
Removed or disassociated from friends, family, or homeland
Alliance
A union of two or more groups
Disparity
Inequality in age, rank, or degree; difference
Servile
Submissive; like a servant
Suppressed
Subdued; kept from being circulated
Embellish
To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
Climax
Arrangement of words in order of increasing importance
Commoratio
Repetition of an idea, re-worded
Conduplicatio
Repetition of a key word
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse
Dubitatio
Expressing doubt and uncertainty about oneself