Words from Tests/Activities PART II Flashcards
Ingratiate
(with)
To make people like you by doing things to please them
Jarod tried ingratiating his way with Saatchi
Subvert
To overthrow; to cause the downfall, ruin, destruction of
Sunnis are trying to subvert the Alawite regime
Wistful
Sad, gloomy, melancholy;
Yearning, longing;
Pensive in a gloomy way
Debunk
To expose a claim as false
He tried to debunk dubious advertising campaigns
Descry / des cry
To catch sight of; discover
Christopher Columbus thought he descried India. Fool.
Effluvium (s) / Effluvia (p)
Effluviate (v)
An unpleasant/harmful odor or secretion
To give forth a mephitic odor
Embitter
To make bitter
Failure has embittered her.
Contravene
To come or be in conflict with; go against; deny; oppose
He contravened the president’s statement.
Avuncular
Pertaining to, or characteristic of an uncle
Avuncular affection
Premature
Done too soon, before appropriate time; precipitate
A premature announcement
Mawkish
Weakly emotional; maudlin
Maudlin
Foolishly sentimental, like a holocaust/jew story meant to evoke crocodile tears
Sanguine / san gwin
Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, confident
Sanguine disposition
Ruddy, reddish (complexion)
Brusque / brusk
Abrupt in manner, blunt, rough, perhaps rude
The waitress this evening was very brusque so we only tipped her 12%
Assimilate
Take in information and understand fully
Timorous
Timorousness
Fearful
Thunder makes little children timorous.
Slake
To allay (thirst, desire, wrath) by satisfying; quench
Whet
Stimulate
Maysa was wrong. Whet does not mean “tide you over.” It means to stimulate, as an appetizer would.
Whet curiosity
Sate
To satisfy (appetite, desire) fully; satiate; surfeit
Surfeit
N - excess, excessive amount OR overindulgence in eating/drinking
V - to stuff yourself to a state of surfeit; to glut
Toady
An obsequious flatterer
Sycophant / sik o phant
Self-seeking servile flatterer
Servile
Slavishly submissive
Billow
A large undulating mass of something
Billows of smoke, billows of people…
Undulate / un djulate
To move with wave-like motion
The flag undulates in the breeze.
Jounce
To move joltingly or roughly up and down; JOUNCE IS TO BOUNCE
Slipshod
Careless, untidy, sloppy
Protean
Extremely variable
Espouse / es powz
To adapt, make one’s own, adopt or embrace
Uncanny
Strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way
She had an uncanny feeling that she was being watched by Mohamed Dagher
Occult
Pertaining to magic, astrology, supernatural powers
A little esoteric and arcane
Ruminate
(over) to mediate, ponder
Salient
Salience
Prominent or conspicuous; protruding, prominent
Salient traits
Truncate
Truncated
To shorten by cutting off a part; cut short; abridge
He truncated the detailed explanation
Sententious / sen ten shus
Someone or something that moralizes (in a pompous, affected way)
Self righteous; abounding in pithy, apothegms
Moralize
Comment on issues of right and wrong with an unfounded air of superiority
Brood
(on/over)
To think about something that makes one unhappy
‘Till this day, he continues to brood over his wife’s death.
Trenchant
Incisive, as language or person; caustic (trenchant wit)
Vigorous, effective, energetic (President’s trenchant policy)
Blithe / bl eye th
Showing a casual and cheerful indifference; HAPPY
Fleet
Fleetly
Fleeting
To move swiftly
Swiftly
Ephemeral
Fitful
Fitfully
Active or occurring intermittently, sporadic, intermittent
Intermittently, sporadically
Inviolable
Incapable of being violated; prohibiting violation
Inviolable sanctuary; inviolable promise
Corrigible
Incorrigible
Capable of being corrected
Bad beyond correction or reform
Incorrigible behavior, incorrigible liar
Sallow
Sickly yellow in color; jaundiced
Rubicund, sanguine, ruddy, flushed
Red in complexion
Repose
N - peace, tranquility, calmness
Deign
To do something that you think you shouldn’t do because you’re too cool
The king deigned to speak to the peasant
Sedulous
Sedulity
Diligent, assiduous
Multifarious
Having many different parts, elements;
Greatly diverse, numerous and varied
Confluence
Flowing together of two or more streams
The confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers
Place of convergence
To converge
Volatile
Volatility
Evaporating quickly
Ready to erupt into violence
Mercurial
Begrudge
To envy or resent the pleasure or good fortune of someone
Rana begrudged Maysa her acceptance into a MD program
Expediate = Expedite
To hasten, speed up
To precipitate
Iterate
Iteration
Iterative
To repeat
Repetition
Repetitive
Cost overrun
The amount of money over the allocated budget
Tandem
In tandem
One following or behind the other
In single file - They swam in tandem
In association or partnership
Repugnate = repugn / rep yoon
To oppose, to fight against, refute
Reprobate / rep ro bait
(N) Depraved, unprincipled, wicked person - drunken reprobate
Person rejected by God and beyond hope of salvation
Bromide
Flat, dull person; platitudinous
Vassal
Subordinate, subject, servant, slave
Rogue
Dishonest, scoundrel, unprincipled
Gentry
Well-born, well-bred, patricians/aristocrats
Tenebrous
Dark, gloomy, obscure
Nancy opened the shades to let light into the tenebrous room
Macabre / mac ab ra
Gruesome, horrifying, horrible
The museum holds macabre memorabilia remnant of WWII
Vapid
Vapidity
Lacking or having lost life, flavor; insipid
THE ENGLISH DRINK VAPID TEA.
Dull - vapid conversation; vapid party
Mirthful
Mirth
Joyous, jolly - Santa Claus has a mirthful laugh
Jollity, laughter…
Excitement and mirth of the holiday seasons!
Replete
Filled, abundantly supplied; surfeit (WITH)
His speech was replete with run on sentences.
Proscribe
To ban, denounce, condemn (as dangerous or harmful)
After the accident, the principal decided to proscribe bikes on school.
To banish, to exile
Mote
Small particle or speck (mote of dust)
Breadth
Wide range, extent
Plutonian
“Lower world,” infernal; underworld
Saturnine
Sluggish, gloomy, taciturn
Suffering from lead poison
Ape (v)
To imitate, mimic
Compunction
Compunctious
Feeling of anxiety due to regret for doing wrong
Feeling compunction
Deft
Nimble, skillful, clever - deft hands, deft mechanic
Vitriolic
Vitriol
Cruel and caustic - vitriolic criticism
Something highly caustic and cruel
Categorical
Without exception, absolute, unambiguous
Diametrical
Being at opposite extremes
Although identical twins, they’re really diametrical opposites
Petulant
Petulance
Showing sudden impatient irritation
Irritability
Tetchy
Irritable, touchy
Impertinent
Impertinence
Rude - brash, impertinent youth; insolent
not relevant/germane
Acuity
NOUN OF ACUTE
Sharpness, acuteness
Oviparous
Egg-laying animal - birds, reptiles, etc
Bijoux
Jewels
Deprecate / dep rek ate
To disapprove
Cryptic
Mysterious, ambiguous, secretive
Cleave
(to) - to adhere closely to
Stick, remain faithful to
Shia cleave to their principles in spite of persecution
Tenable
Able to me maintained or defended against attack or objection
Gravity is a tenable theory, don’t you agree?!
Procure / pro cyoore
Procurement
To obtain or get, especially with great effort and care
I would procure food for the Free Syrian Army <3
Dr. Roth did not appreciate the procurement I went through finding him that souvenir.
Compendious
Compendium
Brief, concise, succinct
Brief account, summary
Otiose / o she uhs
Otiosity
Being at leisure, idle, indolent
OR feckless, useless and unnecessary
Curio / k yoo rio
Rare, unusual intriguing object
Paragon
Person or thing regarded as prefect example
Paradigm
Typical example
Plumage
Bird feathers
Imbue
To impregnate/inspire with feelings or opinions
New president was imbued with teachings of Gandhi.
Hanan thinks she imbued me with feelings of love.
Elucidate
To make lucid or clear; explain
Regale
To entertain lavishly; delight
Khawla Matter regaled her guests at her lavish penthouse along the Nile.
Ululate / ol you late
To howl as a dog, moan
Construe
To interpret, analyze, explain
Preponderant
Preponderance
Prevailing - superior in weight, force, influence; predominate
The preponderant misconception!
Bonanza
Situation that creates sudden increase in wealth and profit
Fiasco
Complete failure in humiliating way
Christina Aguilera’s Bionic album was a sheer fiasco.
Regnant
Reigning, ruling
Queen regnant (noun first, then adjective)
ALSO WIDESPREAD
Fugacious / f you gay shus
Transitory, ephemeral
“Gay girl in Damascus” had a fugacious hold of the public
Spendthrift
Prodigal, spends money lavishly
Obtuse
Slow to understand, unintelligent
Execrate
To abhor utterly
Repugnant
Repugnance
Distasteful, objectionable, offensive
Repugnant smell
Intrepid, intrepidity
Resolutely fearless, dauntless
Columbus thought he was an intrepid explorer
