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
|
Bigot
|
a narrow-minded, prejudiced person
|
|
|
Braggart
|
a very boastful person
|
|
|
Buffoon
|
someone who is always clowning around and trying to be funny
|
|
|
Bungler
|
a clumsy, blundering fellow
|
|
|
charlatan
|
a quack; one who pretends to have expertise,
|
|
|
Colleague
|
a fellow worker in the same profession
|
|
|
Connoisseur
|
an expert in a special field, generally one in the fine arts or in matters of taste.
|
|
|
culprit
|
one who is guilty of a crime or fault
|
|
|
dilettante
|
a dabbler in the arts and science; one who follows an art in a superficial way
|
|
|
felon
|
a person who has commited a seriopus crime such as murder or burglary
|
|
|
Feminist
|
one who advocates economic, social, and political rights for woman equal tomen
|
|
|
glutton
|
a person who greedily eats too much or ho has great capacity for something
|
|
|
luminary
|
famous person inspirational to others
|
|
|
magnate
|
a powerful or influential person in business
|
|
|
martyr
|
one who suffers for a cause
|
|
|
nomad
|
a wanderer without a fixed home
|
|
|
oracle
|
one who makes wise or prophetic statement
|
|
|
pacifist
|
one who is opposed to war and violence or who, as a matter of conscience, resists the draft.
|
|
|
paragon
|
one who is a model of excellence
|
|
|
patriarch
|
the aging father or ruler of a family or tribe
|
|
|
prodigy
|
a remarkably talented child or person
|
|
|
pundit
|
a very learned person
|
|
|
raconteur
|
a skilled teller of anecdotes
|
|
|
recluse
|
one who lives alone; a hermit
|
|
|
ruffian
|
a brutal, lawless person
|
|
|
saboteur
|
one who deliberately damages machines or materials in time of war or labor disputes
|
|
|
schlemiel
|
an awkward unlucky person, easily victimized; a born loser
|
|
|
skeptic
|
one who doubting attitude toward matters that most people accept
|
|
|
tippler
|
one who habitually drinks small quantities of alcohlic beverages
|
|
|
tycoon
|
a wealthy and powerful industrialist or buiness person
|
|
|
urchin
|
a small mishievous boy, any youngerster
|
|
|
virtuoso
|
a person with dazzling technique in an art such as music
|
|
|
zealot
|
one who is extreamly devoted to a cause
|
