Word List 29 Flashcards
Stolid
Dull; Impassive
Subdued
Less intense; Quieter
Rustic
Pertaining to country people; Uncouth
Ennui
Boredom
Efficacy
Power to produce desired effect
Leniency
Mildness; Permissiveness
Anesthetic
Substance that removes sensation with or without loss of consciousness
Pact
Agreement; Treaty
Indolent
Lazy; Indolence
Amenable
Readily manged; Willing to be led; Able to be controlled or influenced; Responsive
Perturb
Disturb greatly
Waffle
Speak equivocally about an issue
Preempt
Head off; Forestall by acting first; Appropriate for oneself; Supplant
Buoyant
Able to float; Cheerful and optmistic
Truncate
Cut the top off
Impropriety
Improperness; Unsuitableness
Compelling
Overpowering; Irresistible in effect
Privation
Hardship; Want
Delete
Erase; Strike out
Anarchy
Absence of governing body; State of disorder
Antecede
Precede
Levity
Lack of seriousness; Lightness
Heterodox
Unorthodox; Unconventional
Absolve
Pardon (an offense)
Multiform
Having many forms
Lummox
Big, clumsy, often stupid person
Lneage
Descent;Ancestry
Ingenuous
Naive and trusting; Young; Unsophisticated
Devise
Think up; Invent; Plan
Lap
Take in food or drink with one’s tongue; Splash gently
Ecclesiastic
Pertaining to the church
Natty
Neatly or smartly dressed
Humid
Damp
PAraphernalia
Equipment; Odds and ends
Sedition
Resistance to authority; Insubordination
Exacting
Extremely demanding
Ferret
Drive or hunt out of hiding
Valor
Bravery
Impassive
Without feeling; Imperturbable; Stoical
Luscious
Pleasing to taste or smell
Enclave
Territory enclosed within an alien land
Charlatan
Quack; Pretender to knowledge
Gamut
Entire range
Willful
Intentional; eadstrong
Annals
Records; History