Word List 6 Flashcards
Prerogative
Privelage or right by virtue of position or rank
Presentiment
Premonition
Profound
Intense, needing or showing great insight
Profusely
Extravagantly, without limitation
Prowess
Outstanding skill, courage
Pusillanimously
Timidly, in a faint-hearted way
Pyre
A pile of wood
Qua
In so far as, in the character of, as
Quicksilver
Unpredictable, changeable
Quintessential
Highly typical
Rakish
Appearing fast
Rectify
To correct
Recur
To happen again, return to mind
Redoubtable
Formiddable, commanding respect
Relevent
Relating to the matter at hand
Repeal
To cancel, withdraw
Ret
Prepare for use
Retrograde
Tending to revert or backwards
Roseate
Rose coloured
Rue
Bitterness, Disappointment
Ruminating
Thinking deeply about something
Rut
Sexual desire of other various mammals
Sanguine
Confident, hopeful, optimistic
Scorned
Rejected, ignored with contempt
Sear
Scar, burn mark
Sedentary
Sitting, Seated… for a period of time
Seriatim
One after the other
Shibui
Restrained elegance
Sojourn
Temporary residence or stay, a visit
Sop
To dip in any liquid
Spurious
Not genuine
Squire
to escort, accompany
Swain
Suitor
Swoon
To faint from emotion
Synoptic
Pertaining to an overall view
Tat
Pony
Tenterhooks
Hooks or bent nails or a framework that hold cloth taut for drying
Terse
Concise
Tod
A bush
Traipse
Wearily wander, trudge, walk aimlessly
Transient
Temporary
Truculent
Agressive, bellicose, fierce
Turista
Gastro-intestinal illness afflicting travelling people
Tête-â-Tête
A private talk
Umfriend
a person with whom one has had a brief sexual encounter
Uncanny
Inexplicable, beyond the normal, expected
Unequivocally
Conclusively, without conditions
Urchin
A young child who is playful or mischevious
Usurp
Taking over one’s position/power without having the right to do so
Utterly
Fully, to a totaly extent
Uxorious
Excessively fond of wife