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25 Cards in this Set
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Ascertain (Verb) "People do not take the trouble to ascertain the truth." Mohamed Salmawy |
Definition: to find out definitely; learn with certainty or assurance; determine Synonym: Discover, determine, confirm Antonym: Aid, confuse, assist |
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Aberration (Noun) "Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration." H. L. Mencken |
Definition: the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course. Synonym: Oddity, peculiarity, weirdness Antonym: Regularity, sameness, normality |
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Hedonist (Noun) "I'm a hedonist when it comes to culinary delights." Robin Wright |
Definition: a person whose life is devoted to
the pursuit of pleasure and self-gratification. Synonym: Libertine, epicurean, lecher Antonym: Puritan, ascetic |
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Presage (Noun) "Small opportunities often presage great enterprises." Demosethenes |
Definition: something that portends or
foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic,or warning indication. Synonym: Warning, sign, forecast Antonym: Calculate, determine, establish |
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Surfeited (Noun) "Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving." Charles Lamb |
Definition: excess; an excessive amount.
Synonym: Satisfaction, overflow, repletion Antonym: Lack, need, want |
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Benefaction (Noun) "In the majority of men gratitude is only veiled desire of receiving greater benefaction." Francois de La Rochefoucauld |
Definition: an act of conferring a benefit; the
doing of good; a good deed Synonym: Aid, contribution, donation Antonym: Injury, loss |
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Ablution (Noun) If the water does not flow on the skin, there is no ablution and so no baptism. |
Definition: a cleansing with water or other
liquid, especially as a religious ritual. Synonym: Cleansing, decontamination, purification Antonym: Dirtying |
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Baneful (Adjective) "Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons." Abigail Adams |
Definition: destructive; pernicious Synonym: Deadly, evil, fatal Antonym: Helpful, beneficial, fortunate |
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Respite (Noun) "For our patience deserves a glimpse only; our toil respite only." Virginia Wolf |
Definition: a delay or cessation for a time, Synonym: Relief, break, rest Antonym: Advance, beginning, start |
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Tarries (Verb) "Long tarries destiny, but comes to those who pray." Aeschylus |
Definition: to remain or stay, as in a place Synonym: Drag, pause, wait Antonym: Rush, depart, advance |
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Castigation (Verb) "Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders." Arthur Symons |
Definition: to criticize or reprimand severely Synonym: Penalty, discipline, scolding Antonym: Award, reward, forgivness |
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Venerable (Adjective) "Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellence and endowments of the human mind." Cicero |
Definition: commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity Synonyms: Honor, aged, grand Antonyms: common and unimpressive |
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Blight (Noun) "We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not blind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives." Charles Hamilton Houston |
Definition: the state of deteriorated Synonyms: curse, plague, scourge, bane Antonyms: Blessing and goodness |
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Soothsayer (Noun) "He was almost a force of nature, like a slumbering volcano, wreathed in clouds, occasionally emitting smoke which soothsayers attempted to interpret." Theodore Harold White |
Definition: a person who professes to foretell events Synonym: Seer, oracle, predictor Antonym: Historian |
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Vehement (Adjective) "We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about." Eric Hoffer |
Definition: strongly emotional; intense or passionate Synonym: Intense, concentrated, desperate Antonym: Calm, cool, gentle |
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Disheveled (Adjective) "Most people show up for work physically accoutered but mentally disheveled." Eric Butterworth |
Definition: untidy; disarranged Synonym: Dirty, disordered, messy Antonym:Clean, neat, ordered |
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Covetousness (Adjective) "When workmen strive to do better than well. they do confound their skill in covetousness." William Shakespeare |
Definition: inordinately or wrongly desirous of wealth or possessions; greedy Synonym: Cupidity and greed Antonym: unselfishness |
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Goads (Noun) "Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goads us on to sin in loving virtue." William Shakespeare |
Definition: something that encourages, urges, or drives; a stimulus Synonym: spur, push, impel Antonym: block and hate |
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Insolence (Noun) "Of all the cankers in human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence." Thomas Jefferson |
Definition: contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech Synonym:Audacity, disrespect, boldness Antonym:Approval, manners, respect |
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Austere (Adjective) "Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful." Frederick Soddy |
Definition: severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding Synonym: Hard, harsh, serious Antonym:Flexible, gentle, calm |
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Jocular (Adjective) "Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down." Horence King |
Definition: given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited to joking or jesting;waggish; facetious Synonym: Joking, happy, pleasant Antonym:Depressed, sad, unhappy |
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Indolence (Noun) "Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy." Mahatma Gandhi |
Definition: the quality or state of being indolent Synonym:Procrastination and laziness Antonym: Diligence |
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Haughtily (Adjective) "How haughtily he lifts his nose, to tell what every schoolboy knows." Jonathan Swift |
Definition: disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious Synonym: Egotistically, proudly, arrogantly Antonym: Humble and modest |
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Supplicate (Verb) "Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer; and he who most bears in mind what has been done for him by God will be most emboldened to supplicate fresh gifts from above." Henry Melvill |
Definition: to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition Synonym: Pray, seek, beg Antonym: Answer, give, refuse |
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Palliative (Verb) "The belief that it is useless to employ partial and palliative means against radical evils, because they only remedy them in part, is an article of faith never preached unsuccessfully by meanness to simplicity, but it is none the less absurd." Theodor Mommsen |
Definition: serving to palliate Synonym: relief, comfort, support Antonym: baneful, intensifying, extreme |
