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;
24 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
capitulate
|
surrender under agreed conditions
|
|
|
pamphlet
|
a small book
|
|
|
celerity
|
rapidity, quickness
|
|
|
thrall
|
bondage, slavery, thraldom
|
|
|
fluster
|
confused and upset,
perturbation |
|
|
truckle
|
bootlick, kotow, toady, kowtow, fawn, suck up
|
|
|
pert
|
impertinent, saucy
|
|
|
unseemly
|
indecent, uncomely, untoward, indecorous, unbecoming
|
|
|
cognate
|
blood relative
|
|
|
blazon
|
official symbols of a family coat of arms, arms
|
|
|
apothegm
|
maxim. aphorism
|
|
|
broach
|
a decorative pin breastpin, brooch
bring up a topic for discussion initiate |
|
|
seraph
|
angel
|
|
|
ursine
|
relating to bears
|
|
|
reprieve
|
respite
|
|
|
caryatid
|
column carved in the shape of a female person
|
|
|
tryst
|
meeting, with opposite sex
rendezvous |
|
|
paddock
|
pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race
|
|
|
bristle
|
A stiff hair
Thea state of movement or action garden bristled with toddlers |
|
|
marauder
|
predator, vulture
|
|
|
parable
|
allegory, apologue, fable
|
|
|
egregious
|
Conspicuously bad, flagrant
|
|
|
melange
|
a motley assortment of things
farrago, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, mingle-mangle, mishmash, oddments, odds and ends |
|
|
litotes
|
understatement for rhetorical effect
|
