Week 5 Flashcards
Rampant
Going Unchecked, Widespread
Ex: The rampant RE virus in Raccoon City
Inane
Foolish
Ex: The foolish idea of being disrespectful
Ethics
Code of Principles of an organization
Ex: Doing things by the book
Morals
Personal Principles (to you)
Ex: Crossing the border to provide for your family.
Concur
To agree
Ex: To concur with a claim
Clandestine
Secret, Undercover
Ex: My conversations with my Mami
Flagrant
Outrageous, glaringly bad
Ex: He made a flagrant excuse, no one believed him
Admonish
To warn, to reprove
Ex: She admonished her sister for keeping in line
Duress
Compulsion, making someone have to do something, to have to
Ex: He duresses the man to confession
Culprit
The Guilty Person
Ex: The culprit of the tax evasion was someone’s father
Inexorable
Inflexible, unrelenting, never stopping, never giving up
Ex: It was an inexonorable judge, never stops, never gives up
Egregious
Remarkably Bad
Ex: My jokes sometimes
Distraught
Really Upset
Ex: The widow at her husband’s funeral
Duplicity
Cunning, Trickery
Ex: Being cunning against the enemy
Acrimonious
Bitter, mean; nasty
Ex: An acrimonious relationship
Paucity
Scarcity, scarce; not enough, hard to find
Ex: The opposite of plethora
Furloughs
A break
Illicit
Illegal
Ex: The illicit (illegal) activity
Elicit
To draw forth
Ex: He elicited (drew forth) a response from the woman
Pernicious
Harmful, causing injury
Ex: the pernicious (harmful) behavior drew him away
Tolerate
To put up with
Ex: He tolerated (put up with) the behavior for far too long
Construe
To make a deduction, kind of an educated guess
Ex: To believe something w/out proof
Misconstrue
An incorrect interpretation, a wrong educated guess
Ex: Going to pick ‘the pen’ up
Impunity
Freedom from punishment, acting like nothing will happen
Ex: The C@rtel’s beliefs that nothing bad will happen
