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;
53 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
To give up throne voluntarily |
Abdicate |
|
A person who attacks first |
Aggressor |
|
A list of books |
Catalogue |
|
A person appointed by parties to settle the disputes between them |
Arbirator |
|
Celebration of a hundredth year, once a century |
Centenary |
|
Persons living in the same age |
Contemporary |
|
A person who really believes whatever is told to him |
Credulous |
|
A man devoid of any feeling and sympathy |
Callous |
|
A man with a broad international outlook |
Cosmopolitan |
|
Control |
Curb |
|
To go from bad to worse |
Deteriorate |
|
A political system in which a state is ruled by one person |
Monarchy |
|
A game which neither party wins |
Draw |
|
Free somebody from blame or guilt; free somebody from am obligation |
Exonerate |
|
Destroy or get rid of something completely; root out an evil or bad practice. |
Eradicate |
|
A person difficult to please |
Fastidious |
|
A person who believes that all events are pre-determined |
Fatalist |
|
A party which doesn't carry any salary |
Honorary |
|
Intense aggression or anger; state of antagonism |
Hostility |
|
Not applicable |
Irrelevant |
|
That which cannot be believed |
Incredible |
|
That which cannot be conquered |
Invincible |
|
Something that is essential and cannot be combined dispensed |
Indispensable |
|
That which cannot be avoided |
Inevitable |
|
That which cannot be avoided |
Irrevocable |
|
That which is considered wrong or unacceptable by prevailing social standards |
Illicit |
|
Incapable of being dissolved in a liquid |
Insoluble |
|
Somebody or something worth the same name as somebody or something else |
Namesake |
|
A person with an evil reputation |
Notorious |
|
One who is new to a trade or profession |
Novice |
|
Words which have the same meaning |
Synonyms |
|
A pardonable offense |
Venial |
|
Somebody who works or serves only for personal profit |
Mercenary |
|
A person who hates women |
Misogynist |
|
A person who knows everything |
Omniscient |
|
A supposed cure for all diseases or problems |
Panacea |
|
Fit for drinking |
Potable |
|
Allegory, fable |
Parable |
|
Following, chase |
Pursuit |
|
Take legal action against somebody |
Prosecute |
|
Inclined to fight or be aggressive |
Pugnacity |
|
A person who helps others, especially those who are poor and in trouble |
Philanthropist |
|
The time of a society by its wealthiest people |
Plutocracy |
|
Sleepwalking |
Somnambulism |
|
A person who is unaffected by emotions |
Stoic |
|
A drug or other substance that induces sleep |
Soporific |
|
Somebody who loans money to other people and charges then exorbitant or unlawful interest on it |
Userer |
|
A person who seizes something without the right to do so |
Usurper |
|
Corresponding word for translation |
Verbatim |
|
Somebody who is excessively concerned with his or her own health |
Valetudinarian |
|
Two counties, the borders of which touch each other |
Contiguous |
|
Something which is effective from some past time |
Retrospective |
|
That which cannot be taken back |
Inexorable |