Week 11 Flashcards
Derogative
Expressed as worthless or in negative terms
Disenfranchise
Deprive of voting rights
Evenhanded
Without partiality
Facetious
Cleverly amusing in love
Finagle
Achieve something by means of trickery or devious merhods
Flounder
Behave awkwardly; have difficulties
Genial
Agreeable, conducive to comfort
Glib
(Of a person) speaking with ease but without sincerity
Implícate
Convey a meaning; imply
Implícate
To indicate in wrongdoing; usually a crime
Impregnable
Immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with
Intermittent
Stopping and starting at irregular intervals
Irresolute
Uncertain how to act or proceed
Martial
Suggesting war or military life
Misogynist
A person that dislikes women in particular
Moot
Open to argument or debate; undecidable in a meaningless or irrelevant way
Pastoral
Relating to the countryside in a pleasant sense
Pithy
Concise and full of meaning
Perquisite
A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)
Provisional
Under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon
Rakish
Marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness
Reservation
An unstated doubt that prevents you from accepting something wholeheartedly
Savvy
A perceptive understanding of
Savvy
Get the meaning of something