Word Groups Flashcards
Capricious
Changing Quickly
Calumny
Criticism/Criticize
Salacious
Carousal
Vaccilate
Hesitate
Apace
Act Quickly
Turbid
Difficult to Understand
Pellucid
Easy to Understand
Gainsay
Criticism/Criticize
Mordant/Mordacious
Biting (Wit)
Perspicacious
Smart
Asperity
Biting (Wit)
Similar to ‘aspersion’, in the criticism word group
Opprobrium
Criticism/Criticize
Ersatz
Falsehood
Vituperate
Criticism/Criticize
Dissipated
Carousal
Venerate
Praise
Limpid
Easy to Understand
Iniquity
Carousal
Veracious
Truth
Ribald
Carousal
Penurious
Greedy
Aspersion
Criticism/Criticize
Probity
Truth
Canard
Falsehood
Remember: ‘Canard’ is the French word for ‘Fox’
Riposte
Funny
Inimical
Harmful
Acrimonious
Biting (Wit)
Inveigh
Criticism/Criticize
Recondite
Difficult to Understand
Trenchant
Biting (Wit)
Encomium
Praise
Minatory
Harmful
Like a minotaur might be
Obloquy
Criticism/Criticize
Pusillanimous
Timid
Reprobate
Carousal
Recreant
Timid
Fatuous
Boring
Objurgate
Criticism/Criticize
Gibe
Funny
Umbrage
Bad Mood
Like Dolores Umbridge, one-time headmistress of Hogwarts
Prosaic
Boring
Perfidious
Harmful
Truculent
Hostile
Ancillary
Assist
Rapacious
Greedy
Excoriate
Criticism/Criticize
Chicanery
Falsehood
Churlish
Hostile
Expatiate
Wandering
Covetous
Greedy
Remember: thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife
Prolix
Wordy
Pillory
Criticism/Criticize
Turgid
Wordy
Gaucherie
Embarrass/Embarrassment
Remember: something gauche could be quite embarrassing
Novitiate
Amateur
Similar to novice
Presage
Predict
Turpitude
Carousal
Esurient
Poor
Proselyte
Amateur
Tendentious
Favoring
Discomfit
Prevent
Tyro
Amateur
Raillery
Funny
Fetter
Prevent
Opposite of unfettered
Simper
Funny
Inpecunious
Poor
Iconoclast
Unusual
Discursive
Wandering
Munificent
Assist
Peripatetic
Wandering
Fey
Predict
Like Tina Fey predicted Alec Baldwin would be a huge success on 30 Rock
Dudgeon
Bad Mood
Like you would be, if you were in a dungeon
Encumber
Prevent
Opposite of unencumbered
Peregrination
Wandering
Querulous
Bad Mood
Diffidence
Embarrass/Embarrassment
Explate
Bad Mood
Augur
Predict
Portentious
Predict
Bilious
Bad Mood
Remember: the Greeks thought that excessive amount of bile cause ill-temperedness
Indigent
Poor