Week1 Flashcards
Inchoate
Incipient, still developing or incomplete
Imperfectly formed, incoherent or lacking order
Obdurate
Unyielding to persuasion; Resistant to appeals or softening influences
Persistent in wrongdoing or impenitent; hardened against emotions
Amalgamate
To mix, merge, or combine into a whole
Effrontery
Insolence, boldness, or presumption
Rarefy
To make or become thin, less compact, or less dense
To purify, refine, or make more spiritual
Diatribe
Bitter, abusive criticism or denunciation
Precipitate
To throw or fall down headlong
To bring or cause to happen, especially abruptly or prematurely
To cause (a substance) to separate from solution; To condense of cause to condense and fall from the sky as snow, rain etc.
Speeding headlong, rapidly, or dangerously; Proceeding with undue haste and without necessary forethought
Occurring abruptly or unexpectedly
Steep or rushing steeply downward
Disabuse
To free someone from misconception or deception
Aver
To assert or affirm positively
To formally assert or prove in pleading a case or cause
Bolster
To support, upload, hearten or boost
Undermine
To weaken by washing away the support or foundation underneath
To weaken, injure, or ruin by degrees or a little at the time; to sap
To subvert secretly or insidiously
To dig a mine or tunnel underneath
Deliberate
To think carefully or consider
Slowly, unhurriedly decided
Done intentionally or with awareness of the consequences
Assuage
To make less intense or severe; to ease
To satisfy, appease, or quench
To pacify, sooth, or quiet
Laconic
Concise, terse, or extremely sparing with words
Lucid
Intelligible or readily understandable; sane or rational
Translucent or clear; bright or luminous
Enervate
To weaken or sap the strength, vigor, or vitality of
Morose
Sullen, gloomy, or melancholy
Eulogy
A praising speech or tribute, especially honoring someone who has died
High praise
Placate
To soothe the anger of, mollify, or appease
Antagonism
Hostility, opposition, or active resistance
Skeptical
Showing, expressing, or given to doubt or questioning
Intrepid
Resolutely fearless or undaunted
Mollify
To soothe or calm the temper or feelings
To soften or make less rigid; to tempt to lessen the intensity of
Anomalous
Deviating from the norm or expectations; irregular
Uncertain or incongruous in nature
Mundane
Ordinary, practical, commonplace, banal or uninteresting
Of or related to this world, as opposed to the heavens
Quotidian
Everyday, commonplace or ordinary
Burgeon
To produce or send out new growth; to sprout or bloom
To grow, expand, or develop quickly and often profusely
Sap
The circulatory fluid of a plant, an essential bodily fluid
Health, vitality, or energy
A gullible person or fool, or dupe
Occult
Secret or withheld from uninitiated
Mysterious, inscrutable, difficult or impossible to comprehend
Of, related to, or concerned with magic or the supernatural
Gainsay
To deny or prove false; To oppose or speak out against
Pith
The core, essence, or substance of a matter
Gist
The central point or essence; the heart of the matter
The founds of a legal action
Hackneyed
unoriginal, so commonplace as to be state; trite or banal
Corroborate
To support with evidence, make more certain, or confirm
Plasticity
Capacity to be molded or made to assume or hold a shape
Ebullience
Liveliness or exuberance, especially in manner or expression
Plethora
Excess, profusion, or overabundance
Artless
Uncultured or ignorant, lacking in knowledge
Poorly or cruelly made
Without artificiality; natural, sincere
Artifice
A crafty, cunning trick or stratagem
Deception or false behavior
Cleverness, skill, or ingenuity
Din
A loud, clamorous noise
Precarious
Lacking stability, dangerously uncertain, or subject to unknown circumstances
Based on uncertain or dubious premises
Default
Failure to meet an obligation, especially a financial obligation; failure to make a court appearance; failure to participate in a contest
Tortuous
Winding, containing numerous twists, turns, or bends
Cooked, tricky, or devious
Highly involved, circuitous, or complex
Profuse
Present or available in great amount; plentiful, bountiful, or copious
Pouring forth freely or abundantly; extravagant
Propitiate
To gain or regain the favor of; appease or conciliate
Zenith
The highest point, culmination
Desiccate
To dry out completely
To preserve food by drying
Veneration
The act of regarding or treating with profound respect, awe, or admiration
Tenuous
To dense; thin or dulled in consistency
Slender
Lacking substance or strength; flimsy; shaky
