Week 5 Flashcards
Acrimonious
Caustic, bitter
Admonish
To scold, warn, reprove
Clandestine
Hidden, secret, undercover
Concur
To agree
Construe
To interpret, to make a deduction, to infer
Culprit
Guilty person, one who commits a crime
Distraught
Agitated, confused, upset
Duplicity
Double-dealing, cunning, trickery
Duress
Force, coercion, compulsion
Egregious
Outstanding for undesirable quality, remarkably bad
Elicit
To extract, to draw forth
Ethics
Moral philosophy, code of principles
Flagrant
Notorious, outrageous, glaringly bad
Impunity
Exemption, freedom from punishment
Inane
Silly, foolish
Inexorable
Cannot be moved by persuasion, inflexible, unrelenting
Paucity
Shortage, scarcity
Pernicious
Damaging, harmful, causing injury
Rampant
Going unchecked, widespread
Tolerate
To permit, to put up with, to bear