Week 6 Flashcards
Aggregate
To gather together
Formed by the collection of smaller parts
Didactic
Designed to teach or instruct
Intended for moral education
Excessively given to lecturing or moralizing
Censure
To criticize or express disapproval, often formally
Anarchy
A state or lawlessness, without government oversight or authority
Incipient
Coming into existence or beginning to appear
Incursion
An invasion, raid, or hositile entrance of anothers territory
The act of entering
Engender
To give rise to, create or cause
To beget or propogate
Autonomous
Independent, self governing
Existing or capabale of unctioning independently, without reliance on others
Equanimity
Calmness, mental or emotional stability under stress; balance
Indeterminate
Vague or uncertain; not precisely fixed or established
Having an infinite number of solutions
Corrugated
Drawn or bent into folds or furrows (as in currogated cardboard)
Wrinkled, as in the skin or face
Unseemly
Not in accordance with standards of good behavior or taste
Indigence
Utter poverty, without comfort
Sentient
Conscious, experiencing feeling or sensation
Esoteric
Uderstood by or intended only for a select group, often people with specialized knowledge
Confidential
Chicanery
Deception through subterfuge or trickery
Estimable
Worthy of esteem or admiration
Capable of being estimated
Aberrant
Deviating from the usual or proper course, especially in behavior
Deviating from the normal or expected type, atypical
Crass
Crude, gross, and unrefined, lacking in discrimination
Excessively materialistic or base
Ingrate
an ungrateful person
Craven
Cowardly or contemptibly fearful
Anomaly
Deviation from the norm, irregularity
Something irregular, peculiar, abnormal, or deviating from the norm
Avid
Urgently, keenly desirous, the point of greed.
Marked by enthusiasm or voracious interest
Coalesce
To grow or unite into one mass or body; to fuse
Summarily
immediately, in a prompt or direct manner; without prior notice
Extenuating
Lessening or mitigating the seriousness or extent of something
Cryptic
Having or seeming to have hidden meaning; mysterious or mystifying
Secret or occult; employing or using code or a cipher
Tirade
An angry, protracted, harshly censorious speech or rant
Damp
To deaden, hold back, or retard the energy of; stifle, suffocate, restrain
Tout
To solicit business, votes, etc. in a persistent or annoying way.
To descirbe or advertise boastfully, promote or praise excessively
Fallacious
Built on unsound logic; containing a fallacy (fallacy = logical mistake)
Misleading or dilusive
Pragmatic
Practical; dealing in facts or real-world occurrences rather than theory or ideals
Debacle
An utter disaster, collapse, or failure
A rout or violent downfall
Tribute
A gift, service, or other demonstration of gratitude, admiration or affection
Evidence or something indicating a praiseworthy quality or characteristic
Payment given or extracted as a sign of submission or in exchange for protection
Inundate
To cover in water, as in floor or torrential rain
To overwhelm
Turbulence
Violent commotion or disorder
Inveigle
To lure, induce, or win over by using flattery
To obtain by flattery or coaxing
Ferment
- To undergo or cause fermentation (such as yogurt or other such foods)
- To excite or agitate; to foment
A state of agitation, unrest, or tumult (“the political ferment may lead to revolt”)
Alacrity
Cheerful willingness or promptness
Fetid
Offensive-smelling
Decorous
Dignified, correct, or proper in manner or conduct
Jabber
To talk rapidly, incoherantly, or nonsensically
Jibe
To be in harmony, agree
Gibe
To jeer, taunt, deride
a mocking or sarcastic remark
Jocular
Characterized by or given to playful jesting; jolly
Cituperative
Characterized by tendency to censure, condemn, or verbally abuse
Labile
Apt or likely to change
Base
Mean-spirited, contemptible or selfish
Showing a lack of values or ethics
Of inferior value or quality
Pettifogger
A shifty or unethical lawyer
A person who bickers or quibbles over trivial matters
Confabulate
Chat, talk casually
To make things up; in psychology, to fill in gaps in one’s memory with “fabulous” stories
Fetter
Shackle, put in chains, restrict the freedom of
Vaunt
Brag about
Sophomoric
Immature, showing lack of judgement
Pretentious and immature at the same time
