Week 3 Flashcards
Procrastinate
To put off doing something until a later time; to delay
Pragmatic
Practical; opinionated; concerned with actual practice rather than with theory or speculation
Pugnacious
Eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome
Querulous
Peevish; faultfinding; expressing or suggestive of complaint
Rejuvenate
To make young or fresh again
Respite
A temporary cessation or postponement, usually something disagreeable
Sagacious
Very wise or shrewd
Saturate
To soak through and through; to fill completely
Soporific
Causing sleep; drowsy
Superfluous
Beyond what is required or sufficient; extra
Tawdry
Gaudy and cheap; vulgarly ornamental
Threadbare
With the nap worn down so that the threads show; frayed or shabby; used so often that it is stale