Week 23 Flashcards
Having two or more different colors
Pied
self-assertive or proud to an irritating degree.
Bumptious
an outcast.
Pariah
A woman who flirts
Coquette
(of a person) at the point of death.
(of a thing) in terminal decline; lacking vitality or vigor.
Moribund
the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions, typically in a particular domain.
Acumen
looking or sounding sad and dismal.
Lugubrious
act in an excessively subservient manner.
Kowtow
fail to fulfill or justify (a claim or expectation); betray.
Belie
of, relating to, or consisting of money.
Pecuniary
Fool or cheat someone
Bamboozle
Alphabet used by the Germanic people
Runic
Storyteller
Raconteur
To lean or shift
List
Translucent, fragile
Diaphanous
the student who ranks second highest in a graduating class and delivers the salutatory.
Salutatorian
treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.
Facetious
the devising or choosing of names for things, especially in a science or other discipline.
Nomenclature
(in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9).
Ziggurat
