Week 8 Flashcards
Castigation
Severe criticism, reproach, or punishment
Repine
To be discontent, complain, or fret
To yearn or long deeply for something
Meteoric
Like a meteor in speed or sudden (often temporary) brilliance
Minatory
Menacing or threatening in nature or aspect
Endemic
Native to or characteristic of a certain place or people
Restricted or confined to a specific area or place
Abrogate
To abolish, annul, or put asidem usually officially
Broach
To mention, suggest, or bring up
To tap, piece, or open up
Deposition
The act ofremoving from power
Testimony under oath
The process of depositing, or the state of being deposited
Accretion
Growth by gradual addition or buildup
Deride
To scorn, mock, jeer, or ridicule
Revere
To regard with respect, devotion, deference, and awe
Boisterous
Rough and noisy or rowdy; clamorous
Opprobrium
Disgrace or infamy dueto shmareful, despicable behavior
Harsh contempt or condemnation
A cause for shame or disgrace
Sate
To satisfy or appease (an appetite) fully
To indulge (an appetite) to exces, to glut
Nascent
Developing or coming into existence
Equitable
Fair and impartial, characterized by showing equity (equity = fairness)
(Note; do not confse with equivocal, meaning ambivalent, undecided)
Natty
Smart and trim in dress or appearance (usually of a man: “nattily dressed”)
Accolade
An award, praise, or expression of approval
Seamy
Sordid, unpleasant, showing the low side of life
Sedulous
Diligent or persevering in effort or application
Done or achieved through perseverance
Efface
To erase, to rub or wipe out
To conduct oneself inconspicuously, to make oneself ‘invisble’.
Often used in the expression “self-effacing”
Neologism
a new word, phrase, or usage
A psychotic symptom involving the creation of new words
Seminal
Pertaining to seed, having possibility of future development
Very original and inluencing later works (as a seminal artist or artwork)
Nexus
A link or connection
A connected group or series
The core, focus, or central point of connection
Tacit
Expressed without words, unspoken
Implied or indicated but not explicitly expressed
Supine
Lying on the back or face up
Showing or characterized by lethargy, passivity, or apathetic inactivity, mentally or morally indfferent or lax
Caustic
Capable of burning, corroding, or eating away at
Cutting, harsh, sarcastic, or severely critical
Nugatory
Of little value, worth, or importance; trifling or inconsequential
Without force or effectiveness
Disaffect
To make unhappy or unloyal, to alienate the affection or support of
Bombastic
Overblown, pompous, inflated, pretentious
Estrange
To make unfriendly or hostile, keep at a distance
Obstinacy
Stubbornly sticking to an attitude, opinion, purpose, or course, against argment or persuasion
Difficult to control, subdue, or remedy
Sinewy
Full of sinews (tendons); tough and stringy or strong
Lean and muscular, strong, forceful, or vigorous
Boor
A rude or coarse person; someone without manners or sensitivity
A peasant
Occluded
To obstruct, close up, or block off
To prevent the passage of
Slew
A large number of quanity of (“a whole slew of problems”)
Continent
Excerising or marked by self-restraint , especially of the desires
Cessation
a temporary or final stopping or ceasing
Odium
The state or quality of being odious (arousing contempt or strong displeasure)
Contempt, dislike, or repugnance
Disgrace or infamy due to reprehensible or hateful acts
Sodden
Weighted downwith or as if with water, soaked throughly
Dull or expressionless, as from drink
Sluggish or torpid
Surfeit
- An excessive amount or oversupply
- Overindulgance (such as in food or drink) , disgust from overindulgence
To feed or supply to surfeit (i.e., satiety, excess, or disgust)
Solvent
Able to pay debts; not bankrupt
Breach
The act or result of rupturing, or breaking; rift, fissure
A violation or infraction, a severance of friendly relations
Onerous
Burdensome or troublesome (onus=burden)
Entailing legal obligations that exceed the benefits
Fervid
Very, glowing, or burning
Marked by great zeal, feeling, or fervor
Opaque
Impenetrable to light; not transparent or reflecting light
Hard to understand, so obsure as to be unclear or unintelligible
Dim-witted or mentally slow
Lethargic
Characterized by or causing lethargy (sluggishness, inacivity) or indifference
Chary
cautious or wary
Sparing, hesitant to give, accept or expand
Tendentious
Parisan, marked by a strong point of view
Puerile
Pertaining to childhood
Childishly foolish or immature, juvenile
Bedizen
Dress or decorate in a gaudy, ostentatious way
Internecine
Pertaining to conflict within a group
Mutually destructive
Screed
A long discourse or piece of writing
A diatribe, an angry speech
Sere
Dry or withered
Semiotics
The theory or study of signs and symbols used as elements communication; the study of languages, gestures, even clothing used as communication
