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;
41 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
polemic
|
A powerful argument made in refutation of something
|
|
|
decorous
|
in good taste; orderly
|
|
|
palliate
|
to hide the seriousness of something with apologies or excuses
|
|
|
piquant
|
pungent
|
|
|
deleterious
|
harmful
|
|
|
fecund
|
fertile; productive
|
|
|
ingenuous
|
unwarily simple; candid; naive
|
|
|
doggerel
|
comic, loose verse
|
|
|
intransigent
|
stubborn; uncompromising
|
|
|
turpitude
|
shameful wickedness or depravity
|
|
|
brook
|
to bear or tolerate; to put up with something
|
|
|
flag
|
to weaken; to slow down
|
|
|
effluvium
|
a disagreeable or noxious vapor; an escaping gas
|
|
|
exigent
|
demanding prompt action; urgent
|
|
|
improvident
|
lacking prudent foresight; careless
|
|
|
ineluctable
|
inescapable; unavoidable
|
|
|
recondite
|
hard to understand; over one's head
|
|
|
gainsay
|
to deny; to speak or act against
|
|
|
propinquity
|
nearness
|
|
|
ribald
|
vulgar or indecent speech or language, as in a ribald joke
|
|
|
panegyric
|
lofty praise
|
|
|
reprobate
|
a wicked, sinful, depraved person
|
|
|
welter
|
a confused mass; a commotion or turmoil
|
|
|
inchoate
|
just beginning; not organized or orderly
|
|
|
accrete
|
to increase by growth or addition
|
|
|
contumacious
|
stubbornly rebellious or disobedient
|
|
|
fulsome
|
disgusting or repulsive
|
|
|
ligneous
|
woodlike
|
|
|
motility
|
spontaneous movement
|
|
|
munificent
|
very generous; lavish
|
|
|
saturnine
|
a sluggish, gloomy temperament
|
|
|
provincial
|
limited in outlook to one's own small corner of the world, narrow
|
|
|
prodigal
|
extravagant; wasteful
|
|
|
didactic
|
instructive; intended to instruct
|
|
|
prosaic
|
dull; unimaginative; like prose
|
|
|
engender
|
to create; to produce
|
|
|
trepidation
|
fear; apprehension; nervous trembling
|
|
|
prodigious
|
extraordinary; enormous
|
|
|
supercilious
|
haughty; patronizing
|
|
|
diffident
|
timid; lacking in self-confidence
|
|
|
blithe
|
carefree; cheerful
|
