Word List 4 Flashcards
Excerpt
small selection from a book or document
Exhumed
Dug from the grave
Exigency
Urgent need
Expeditiously
In an efficient way, speedily
Extempore
On the spur of the moment
Fastidious
Pernickety
Fatuous
silly, idiotic
Fickle
Changeable
Flaccid
Fond of showing off
Flinch
To wince, to draw back
Fortuitous
Happening by lucky accident or chance
Founder
Stumber, fail utterly, to fill with water and sink
Frantic
Wildly excited, agitated
Frenetic
Frantic, frenzied
Gab
Chattering or meaningless talk
Gad
A sharp pointed rod
Gar
Any slender fish
Garnish
To sieze by legal authority
Gelasin
A dimple occuring when you smile
Gerrymander
To manipulate the boundaries of an electoral constituency to favour a particular party
Gesticulate
Make lively gestures, moves hands about
Gripe
To grumble or complain
Guileless
Sincere, without deception
Hail
To aclaim, call out
Halcyon
Ideallicaly happy, peaceful
Harp
To persist or dwell tediously on a subject
Hirci
Armpit hair
Hirsute
Hairy
Hone
To sharpen, improve, perfect
Honorary
One for which no salary is paid
Horde
A large group of people, crowd
Ignominiously
With disgrace, dishonourably
Impeccable
such that no fault could be found
Implore
To ask someone to do or not do something in a very sincere way
Importune
To plead annoyingly
Inception
Beginning
Incessant
Never-stopping in an annoying, unpleasant way
Inclement
Severe, stormy or cold, merciless
Incoherent
Hard to understand
Incorrigible
Incapable of being corrected
Incumbent
Office holder
Indefatigable
Tireless
Indelible
Unable to be forgotten
Indubitably
Without Question or doubt
Infatuation
Romantic attachment, attraction
Ingenuous
Candid, open, without guile
Innocuous
Harmless
Inscrutably
Mysteriously, in an incomprehensible way
Insular
Overly meticulous, sourounded by sea
Intermittently
Every now and then