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;
160 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
fractious
|
tending to be troublesome iritable
|
|
|
extemporizing
|
improvising
|
|
|
transcendent
|
exciding usual limits
|
|
|
proprietary
|
used, made by leagle right
|
|
|
hauteeur
|
arragence
|
|
|
catteracts
|
watterfalls
|
|
|
inuendo
|
oblique illusions hint
|
|
|
prodigality
|
recklessly estravegant
|
|
|
eddy
|
woorl pool
|
|
|
staid
|
marked by settle sedateness
|
|
|
tortuously
|
in a winding bending way
|
|
|
vacuous
|
empty, marked by lack of ideas
|
|
|
corpulent
|
having large bulkey bodie
|
|
|
wan
|
poir health, sickly, febal
|
|
|
vinous
|
showing use of wine
|
|
|
presumptuous
|
overstepping dobounds
|
|
|
euphenism
|
substituting agreeable or inaffensive exspresion for one that may affend
|
|
|
conceit
|
result of mental activity
|
|
|
ineffable
|
incapable of being expressed with words
|
|
|
meretricious
|
falsely atractive
|
|
|
inimical
|
harmfull, hostile, unfriendly
|
|
|
callousness
|
toughness, hardness, insensitivity
|
|
|
effusive
|
unrestrained in emotional expression
|
|
|
antithesis
|
direct contrast, opposition
|
|
|
pithy
|
precisely meaningful, having substance or point
|
|
|
obsequious
|
full of servile compliance, submissive, dutiful
|
|
|
cursoriness
|
hastiness, superficiality
|
|
|
agrarian
|
concerning land and ownership related to farming
|
|
|
altruism
|
concerned for the wellfare of others, unselfishness
|
|
|
sanguine
|
marked by healthful cheerfulness, confident
|
|
|
temperance
|
self control esp in drinking
|
|
|
delirium tremens
|
violent hallucinations and convulsions caused by excessive drinking
|
|
|
contrived
|
planned devised
|
|
|
dissipating
|
weakining dispelling dissappearing
|
|
|
histrionic
|
theatrical deliberately affected
|
|
|
pallet
|
cot or small hard bed
|
|
|
dispoition
|
desire inclination
|
|
|
elocution
|
the art of speaking
|
|
|
audacious
|
recklessly bold, impertinent, insolent
|
|
|
addled
|
confused
|
|
|
reproof
|
the act of finding fault
|
|
|
desecrate
|
to treat disrespectfully
|
|
|
cowed
|
frightened
|
|
|
temerity
|
reckless boldness foolhardy disregardfor danger
|
|
|
disconfiture
|
frustraion disappointment
|
|
|
osentatiously
|
in a manner meant to be noticed
|
|
|
conmiserate
|
to sympathize with pity
|
|
|
temporize
|
acted evasively in order to gain time, nigociate
|
|
|
broached
|
began to talk abut
|
|
|
transmutation
|
a change from one state to another
|
|
|
acumen
|
quickness and keeness of judgment or insight
|
|
|
deleterious
|
having a harmful effect injurious
|
|
|
unctuous
|
characterized by affected exaggerated or insincere earnestness oily
|
|
|
belie
|
to picture falsely, misrepresent
|
|
|
nihlism
|
philosophically an extream form of skepticism that denies all existence
|
|
|
feckless
|
feeble or ineffective
|
|
|
diffident
|
lacking or marked by a lack of self confidence shy
|
|
|
incontrovertible
|
imposible to dispute uquestionable
|
|
|
nefarious
|
wicked in the extreme, abominable atrociously vilainous
|
|
|
paradigm
|
on that serves as a pattern or model, a set of asumpsums concepts.........
|
|
|
pedestrian
|
common place unimaginative
|
|
|
pragmatic
|
practical as opposed to idealistic
|
|
|
delusion
|
persistent false psychotic belief
|
|
|
digression
|
turning aside from the main point
|
|
|
flout
|
to treat with contemptous disregard
|
|
|
sardonic
|
disdainfully humorous derisively mocking
|
|
|
nonplussed
|
at a lost of what to think puzzled
|
|
|
pretentious
|
expressive of unwarrented importance worth or stature
|
|
|
posturing
|
assuming an artificial or pretended attitude
|
|
|
didactic
|
disigned or intended to teach
|
|
|
decorous
|
marked by propriety and good tast
|
|
|
jocular
|
habitually jolly playfull witty
|
|
|
pomderous
|
opresibly or unpleasently dull
|
|
|
edifice
|
a building a big structure
|
|
|
auspicious
|
offering a faverable omen or outlook
|
|
|
indubitably
|
without doubt unquestionable
|
|
|
vagrant
|
wandering, having fleeting waward falling
|
|
|
demeanor
|
outwaed behaivor
|
|
|
venerable
|
calling forth respect through characterized entainments
|
|
|
infamy
|
an extream criminal or act
|
|
|
ensue
|
to take place afterward or as a result
|
|
|
impropriety
|
unacceptable use or a word
|
|
|
purport
|
intending or clameing something
|
|
|
abashed
|
uneasy self confidence
|
|
|
sumptuary
|
disgn to regulate exstravagenthabits often on religious grounds
|
|
|
gentility
|
politeness
|
|
|
evanescent`
|
tending to vanish like vapor
|
|
|
ignominy
|
deep personal humiliation
|
|
|
visage
|
the face countenance or appearence of a person.
|
|
|
iniquity
|
gross in wicked sin
|
|
|
Contumely
|
haarsh treatment arising from content
|
|
|
preternatual
|
existing ooutside of nature
|
|
|
remonstrance
|
earnest presentation of reasons for opposition
|
|
|
behovve
|
to be necessary fit or proper
|
|
|
appended
|
ADDED TO AS A SUPPLEMENT
|
|
|
unadulterated
|
is peur complete
|
|
|
griievous
|
causing r characteriized by serire pain suffering
|
|
|
tremulous
|
excidingly sensitive
|
|
|
plaintive
|
expressive of suffering woe
|
|
|
transgress
|
to sin to violate a comand or law
|
|
|
despotie
|
exercizing poor tyrannicaly
|
|
|
mercurial
|
characterized by rapid and unpredi[ctions
|
|
|
enigatic
|
difficult to explain puzzled
|
|
|
vivify
|
to give life animate
|
|
|
evin
|
to display clearly reavil
|
|
|
elgiac
|
expressing sorrow often for something in the past
|
|
|
intimate
|
to comunicate hint
|
|
|
peremptory
|
expressive of urgency or comand
|
|
|
efficacy
|
power to produce exceed
|
|
|
requital
|
something given in return or relation
|
|
|
ascetic
|
sevire self dinying
|
|
|
succor
|
assist, relieve, relief aid help
|
|
|
imbued
|
filled permeated
|
|
|
pristine
|
pure uncorrupted
|
|
|
intrinsic
|
not dependent on exterior forces
|
|
|
temporal
|
existing in time
|
|
|
imminent
|
about to occure
|
|
|
eminent
|
famous distinguish
|
|
|
inportunate
|
annoyingly urgent or percistant
|
|
|
affinity
|
close relationship connected
|
|
|
banal
|
stale worn out by overuse
|
|
|
discrete
|
seperate and distinct
|
|
|
discreet
|
careful about what one says or does
|
|
|
promulgate
|
to make known officially
|
|
|
colloquy
|
conversation discusion
|
|
|
zeitgeist
|
the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize an era
|
|
|
acrimony
|
sharpness or bitterness in speech or temper
|
|
|
cogent
|
convincingly on point appealing strongly to reason or conscience
|
|
|
germane
|
relevent
|
|
|
surfeit
|
excess of indulgence usu relates to food
|
|
|
abjure
|
to renounce or reject something formaly
|
|
|
aphorism
|
a proverb or a concise statement of the truth
|
|
|
bumptious
|
full of offensive and agrssive self-concent
|
|
|
prurient
|
incline to lewd sexual thoughts and desires
|
|
|
fatuous
|
idiotic or foolish
|
|
|
callow
|
without experience in the world unsophisticated immature
|
|
|
misanthropy
|
feeling of hatred for mankind
|
|
|
lugubrious
|
exaggerated sadness or misfortune
|
|
|
obstreperous
|
marked by unruly or aggresive noisiness stubbornly resistant to control`
|
|
|
collusion
|
a secret agreement for a wrongful pupose
|
|
|
abstemious
|
eating drinking in mderation
|
|
|
guileless
|
not crafty frank honest
|
|
|
tautology
|
needless repitition of the same sentence
|
|
|
inculcate
|
to impress on the mind of another repitition instill
|
|
|
audacity
|
fearless deaving boldness
|
|
|
florid
|
embeleshed with flowers excessivly to hate
|
|
|
debacle
|
a sudden desater downfall or defeat
|
|
|
cavalier
|
showing oragent dismissive
|
|
|
craven
|
characterized by adject fear cowerdly
|
|
|
winsome
|
charming
|
|
|
interdict
|
to prohibbit formaly forbid
|
|
|
panoplies
|
full suits of armor cerimonial dress
|
|
|
vicissitudes
|
flextuation in condition difficulties attendent on a way of life
|
|
|
brazen
|
made of brass or marked by contemptrous boldness
|
|
|
vaunts
|
makes a vain display of own attainments bragging
|
|
|
blackguard
|
rude or unscrupulous person who uses fowel or abeusive language
|
|
|
buffeted
|
battered attactes by blows from wind or sea
|
|
|
consummate
|
compleat perfect to compleat as a marital union by sexual intercorse
|
|
|
domain
|
compleat and absolute ownership of land
|
|
|
preceptor
|
administrator of a second organization or gov.
|
