Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
33 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
sedate
|
keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace
|
|
|
tacit
|
implied or indicated but not actually present
|
|
|
salient
|
standing out conspicously,noticeably
|
|
|
prodigious
|
extrodarniary in size ro degree
|
|
|
inveigle
|
to entice win over by flatery lure
|
|
|
galling
|
wearing away by friction,chaffing,irratating
|
|
|
inane
|
lacking signifigance or meaning silly
|
|
|
inured
|
toughened or hardened accepted to accept something undesirable
|
|
|
insidious
|
sly,treacherous,devious
|
|
|
venerable
|
deserving of respect
|
|
|
enmity
|
mutual hatred
|
|
|
latent
|
potenial,present capable of becoming though not visible or active
|
|
|
gaunt
|
thin or emaciated
|
|
|
undulation
|
the act of rising and falling regularly
|
|
|
vindicated
|
confirmed or substained
|
|
|
idiosyncratic
|
characteristic pecularity of habit or structure
|
|
|
impinge
|
encroach, enter upon anothers property or rights
|
|
|
implausability
|
not reasonable or believable
|
|
|
gangling
|
being loosely and akwardly built
|
|
|
mull
|
to consider at length, ponder
|
|
|
abashed
|
to destroy the self possesion or self confidence
|
|
|
vagaries
|
whims
|
|
|
cacophony
|
harsh noise
|
|
|
preeminently
|
developed to the utmost and not exceeded by any other in degree,quality or intensity
|
|
|
presaged
|
to give an omen or warning of, foreshadowing
|
|
|
austerity
|
severe,enforced or extreme poverty
|
|
|
deluded
|
to mislead or decieve
|
|
|
bane
|
cause of woe
|
|
|
cohorts
|
groups of soldiers
|
|
|
mustering
|
to bring together , to enroll formally in the army
|
|
|
belicose
|
war like, belligerent
|
|
|
malarkey
|
foolishness
|
|
|
qualms
|
scruple, a reluctance due to ethical consederations
|
