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;
12 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Abomination
|
Anything greatly disliked and/or abhorred; shameful or detestable
|
|
|
Concertina
|
A musical instrument resembling an accordion but having button-like keys, hexagonal bellows and ends, and a more limited range.
|
|
|
Emissary
|
A representative sent on a mission or errand.
|
|
|
Estuary
|
The widening channel of a river where it nears the sea with a mixture of fresh and tidal (salt) water.
|
|
|
Immutability
|
unchangeable, not mutable
|
|
|
Jetty
|
A pier or structure of stones and piles projecting into the sea or other body of water to protect a harbor, deflect the current, etc.
|
|
|
Lugubrious
|
Mournful, dismal, or gloomy especially in an exaggerated or unrelieved manner.
|
|
|
Placid
|
Pleasantly calm or peaceful; serenely quiet, undisturbed, unruffled.
|
|
|
Propitiatory
|
Intended to appease or conciliate.
|
|
|
Rapacious
|
Inordinately greedy; given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
|
|
|
Sedentary
|
Abiding in one place, not active.
|
|
|
Somnambulist
|
A person with the condition of somnambulism, or sleepwalking.
|
