Word set - Week 11 Flashcards
Inundate
To flood, overflow, deluge, engulf, submerge, swamp, overwhelm
Poignant
Moving, painful to the feelings, a poignant scene, emotional, touching, stirring
Sanguine
Optimistic, assured, certain, confident, doubtless, positive
Having a healthy reddish color, florid, flush, glowing, rosy, ruddy
Phlegmatic
Calm, hard to rouse to action, apathetic, stoic, stolid
Corroborate
To support with evidence, confirm, validate, vindicate, substantiate
Comprehensive
Thorough, covering all possibilities, inclusive, omnibus, panoramic, universal, grand, intact, integral, plenary
Zealous
Enthusiastic, filled with zeal
Coerce
To force, restrain, repress, to compel to an act or choice, enforce, compel, constrain, drive, obligate, press, pressure
Elapse
To slip by, pass, cease, expire, terminate, wind up
Meticulous
Careful, attention to details, conscientious, fussy, painstaking
Domicile
Home, abode, dwelling place, lodging, quarters, residence
Lax
Careless, negligent, derelict, slack
not strict, not tense, firm, or rigid, easygoing, flexible, relaxed
Sporadic
Occasional, casual, erratic, intermittent, irregular, spotty, unsteady
Rash
Too hasty, reckless, cursory, headlong, precipitate, precipitous
Conjecture
Guess, a conclusion deduced by surmise or guesswork, surmise, theory, hypothesis