Williams words 2 Flashcards
Duplicity
Deceitfulness
Sumptuousness
Luxurious
Row
A fight
Accord
Harmony
Vindicate
To clear from blame
Pedantry/scrupulousness
Excessive concern with minor details
Inure
To become accustomed to (especially something unpleasant)
Vilifying
Speak disparagingly
Apocryphal
Spurious/false although widely circulated
Impute
To attribute
Austere
Severe/strict
Primordial
Primitive, old
Denouement
Final outcome
Modish
Fashionable
Refractory, obstreperous, recalcitrant, intransigent
Stubborn, refusal to change ones view
Philistine
Anti culture and arts
Specious
Misleading, superficially plausible but wrong
Inculcate
To Instill
Blinkered/parochial
Narrow-minded
Quintessence
Examplar of the perfect quality
Ineluctable
Unavoidable, inevitable (elusive meaning hard to find)
Ingenuous
Innocent genuine
Inveigh
To write/speak with hostility, vilify, disparage
Levy
Impose