Week 15 Flashcards
Hallow
To make holy
We cannot hallow this field because someone already left it holy.
Orifice
Mouth or opening
No one would go into the orifice of the cave.
Perdition
Damnation, ruin, hell
The sermon was about perdition and other punishments.
Chaff
Worthless matter
Spare the chaff; give me the facts.
Aesthetic
Pertaining to beauty
The house was a dump, but it had some aesthetic qualities.
Empirical
Based on practical and experience rather than theory
He sounded logical, but the empirical data didn’t support it.
Germane
Relevant or fitting
Make sure that all of your answers are germane p, or you will get marked off.
Hermetic
Tightly sealed
The medicine was in hermetic containers.
Meretricious
Attractive in a cheap flashy way
She mans jacket from the gypsy era was meretricious.
Querulous
Complaining, grumbling
The querulous child annoyed the other passengers.
Flaccid
Flabby
The athletes arms became flaccid when he stopped working out.
Hospice
Shelter for travelers, orphans, or the ill
A new hospice center for cancer patients opened.
Egregious
Remarkably bad or outrageous
Everyone was shocked when he told his egregious remark.
Ratiocination
To reason or think
The man was not longer able to ratiocination after his concussion.
Foment
To stir up or incite
The man was brought to prison and killed for fomenting disruptions at lunch time.
