Word List 4 Flashcards
Abrupt
Sudden
Accessory
Addition
Addictive
Habit-forming
Adoration
Worship
Affinity
Attraction
Aggregate
To gather
Ailment
Sickness
Alibi
Excuse
Aloof
Distant
Amenity
Something that provides pleasure
Analogy
Comparison
Angular
Sharp
Antisocial
Unfriendly
Arrogant
Acting superior
Attend
To be present
To take care of
Authoritarian
Favoring authority
Bedridden
Unable to move
Benign
Kind
Bleak
Depressing
Blunder
To make a foolish mistake
Bounty
Reward
Bypass
A detour
To avoid
Callous
Unfeeling, hard
Compensate
To give equal value to
Compound
To add to
Conceit
Thinking your great
Condense
To concentrate
To make shorter
To change from vapor to liquid
Conform
To do as others do
Constrain
To limit ones movement
Convey
To carry
To send
Credulous
Gullible, believing everything
Cyclical
Moving in cycles
Delinquent
Someone with bad behavior
Overdue
Derive
To arrive at by reasoning
To reduce
Detrimental
Harmful
Discord
Disagreement
Discrepancy
Inconsistency
Dispirited
Depressed
Distinction
Difference
Drawback
Disadvantage
Dune
Hill of sand
Dwindle
To decrease
Ecstasy
Great happiness
Embitter
To make angry or bitter
Abode
Home
Emergence
Coming forward
Endeavor
Task
To try
Erratic
Unsteady
Ethnic
Having to do with a particular race or population
Exasperate
To frustrate
Exertion
A lot of effort
Exotic
Unusual in an exciting way
Fallacy
A false idea
Fickle
Often changing
Foremost
First highest rank
Formidable
Strong,intimidating
Franchise
Right to vote
immoderation
extreme behavior
impeach
to accuse a public official of a crime
to cast doubt on
implausible
unbelievable
impregnate
to make pregnant
to fill
inclined
favoring a certain point of view
inconsequential
not important
indespensible
necessary
infer
to conclude from the evidence or facts
insomnia
inability to sleep
insupportable
impossible to justify
intrinsic
natural
jollity
being jolly
knit
to sew
to bring together closely
larceny
stealing
legacy
inheritence
lasting result
liquidate
to destroy
lucid
easily understood
mannerism
an affected gesture
mediator
one who settles differences between people
mere
insignificant
minute
very small
mutual
common
nontransferable
unable to be given to eachother
nurture
to nourish
opportunist
one who takes advantage of opportunitys
overdrive
beyond normal limits
patchwork
something made up of unrelated pieces
perceptive
observant
persistence
endurence
pictorial
relating to pictures
playwright
one who writes plays
pompous
acting self-important
precede
to come before
premise
a statement upon which a conclusion was based
preside
to lead
prevelent
widespread
propagandist
one who spreads false ideas
proverb
a short saying that expresses an obvious truth
pushover
one who is easily defeated
random
without direction
recede
to retreat
reclaim
to rescue
to make land fertile again
reconcile
to settle
render
to give
to perform
reside
to live in
retaining
holding in
rigid
stiff
servile
acting like a servant
sober
serious
not drunk
sonic
involving sound
sprout
a young plant
to begin to grow
stanza
a section of a poem
stimulation
motivation
submissive
obedient
summons
an order to show up
suspect
to believe
symmetry
balance
tedious
boring
tentative
uncertain
tyranny
a cruel rule
uncork
to remove the cork from
unsolicited
not asked for
vain
useless
conceited
virtue
goodness
wit
cleverness