Week 5 Flashcards
Erudite
Learned, knowledgeable, or scholarly
Diffident
Lacking self-conidence; shy, timid
Eschew
To shun, avoid, or abstain from
Malleable
Capable of being shaped or moded, as by a hammer or pressure
Susceptible to control or outside influence
Adaptable to changing conditions
Savant
Learned person, scholar, sage, an idiot savant
Sedulous
Diligent or persevering in effort or application
Done or achieved through perseverance
Hallmark
an outstanding or distinguishing feature; a mark indication quality or excellence
Hapless
Unfortunate or unlucky
Sinecure
A paid position or office requiring little or no work
Harrow
To disturb or torment
To prepare ground of planting with a harrow, a tool designed to break up and even out plowed land
Exhaustive
Thorough; not leaving anything out
Tending to exhaust, exhausting
Haven
A place of comfort or rest, a sanctuary
A port or harbor
Clinch
Grab, hold; secure a goal (to “clinch the win”)
Stymie
To block, thwart, or stand in the way of
Enigma
A puzzling or inscrutable person, occurrence, or situation
A puzzling or obscure text or speech
Welter
A conused jumble or mass
To become deeply involved or embroiled in something
To roll, writhe, or heave
Supplicate
To ask humbly of (someone); to beseech
To ask for something humbly, to pray for
Zealous
Fervent, filled with or motivated by passionate or excessive enthusiasm
Hyperbole
Extreme exaggeration, often used for effect as a figure of speech
Torrid
Parched, burning, intensely hot
Passionate, ardent
Fast, hurried
Idyll
A poem, either a short description o an idealized rural scene or a narrative dealing with romantic or heroic themes
carefree, lighthearted experience or period, a romantic interlude
Travesty
A distorted, debased, grotesque, or inferior imitation or likeness
An exaggerated burlesque or imitation of a serious literary work, usually. grotesquely incongruous
Turpitude
Depravity, baseness, or vileness
A corrupt act
Fervor
Intensity or warmth of emotion
Intense heat
Cacophony
Dissonance, Jarring, harsh, or discordant sound
Fledge
To care for (as a young bird) until it is ready to fly
To cover with or as with feathers
To grow plumage needed for flight
Impassive
Not reavealing, expressing, or betraying emotion
Impecunious
Penniless, without money
Warmonger
One who advoates or attempts to incite war
Impede
To hinder or obstruct movement or progress
Abhor
To hate, despise, regard with horror or repugnance
Prevaricate
To equivocate, lie, or stray from the truth
Divulge
To reveal or make known (a secret or confidence)
Precursor
One that precedes and announces or suggest anothers approach
A forerunner or predecessor, on that precedes another
Attenuate
To make thin, slender, or small
To reduce in density or consistancy, to rarefy
To lessen the force,value, numbers, or strength of
To reduce the intesity, vitality, or virulence of
Ostentatious
Given to excessive, pretentious, conspicuous display
Improbity
Dishonesty, lack of probity (probity = honesty)
Conservance
Familiarity, the state of being able to speak about something (converse) knowledgeably
Quandry
State of perplexity, especially regarding how to proceed
Propriety
The quality of being proper or appropriate
Plural: The customs and rules of polite society
Impudent
Insolent, boldly disrespectful
Dwindle
To shrink or diminish until little remains
Impugn
To challenge or attack as false or questionable
Capricious
Whimsical, governed by or subject to caprice or impulse
Inadvertent
Accidental or unintentional
Inattentive, not fully focused or taking head
Recumbent
Lying down or reclining, especially in repose
Resting or idle
Impromptu
Done, said or composed on the spur of the moment, improvised
Abjure
To renounce, recant, or repudiate on the spur of the moment, improvised
Refulgent
Radiant, resplendant, shining brilliantly
