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;
49 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Clandestine
|
Done secretively, especially to deceive
|
|
|
ingenuous
|
lacking in cunning, worldliness
|
|
|
Subterfuge
|
a deceptive stratagem or device
|
|
|
surreptitous
|
sneaky; secretive
|
|
|
Dearth
|
scarce
|
|
|
Modicum
|
a small moderate, or token amount
|
|
|
Paucity
|
smallness in number; scarcity
|
|
|
Squander
|
To spend wastefully
|
|
|
Temperate
|
moderate
|
|
|
tenuous
|
little substance or strength
|
|
|
diligent
|
hardworking
|
|
|
Maverick
|
one who is independent and resist adherence to a group
|
|
|
Mercenary
|
Motivated by a desire for money or material gain; gold digger
|
|
|
Obstinate
|
stubbornly attracted to an opinion or a course of action
|
|
|
Proliferate
|
to grow or increase rapidly
|
|
|
Tenacity
|
Persistence
|
|
|
Vigilant
|
watchful
|
|
|
Extraneous
|
irrelevant; inessential
|
|
|
Juxtapose
|
to place side by side for comparison
|
|
|
novel
|
new, ordinary
|
|
|
superlfluous
|
extra; unnecessary
|
|
|
synergy
|
combined action or operation
|
|
|
Aesthetic
|
having to do with the appreciation of beauty
|
|
|
Aural
|
of or relating to the ear or sense of hearing
|
|
|
Cacophany
|
unpleasant noise
|
|
|
dirge
|
A funeral lament
|
|
|
Eclectic
|
Made up of a variety of sources and styles
|
|
|
Incongruous
|
lacking in harmony; incompatible
|
|
|
Sonorous
|
producing a deep or full sound
|
|
|
Strident
|
loud, harsh, grating, or shrill
|
|
|
Debacle
|
disastrous or ludicrous defeat or failure; fiasco
|
|
|
Debilitate
|
weaken; impair the strength of
|
|
|
Tumultuous
|
noisy and disorderly
|
|
|
Anachronistic
|
the representation of something as existing or happening in the wrong time period
|
|
|
Archaic
|
Characteristic of an earlier time antiquated; old
|
|
|
Dilatory
|
habitually late
|
|
|
Ephemeral
|
lasting for only a brief time
|
|
|
Redolent
|
fragrant; aromatic; suggestive
|
|
|
Temporal
|
of, relating to, or limited by time
|
|
|
onerous
|
troublesome or oppressive; burdensome
|
|
|
Portent
|
indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; omen
|
|
|
Prescience
|
knowlege of actions or events before they occur; foreknowledge; foresight
|
|
|
Austere
|
strict; without decoration
|
|
|
Banal
|
Drearily commonplace; predictable; trite
|
|
|
Hackneyed
|
worn out through overuse, trite
|
|
|
insipid
|
uninteresting; unchallenging; lacking taste or savor
|
|
|
Prosaic
|
unimaginative; dull; not poetic
|
|
|
Soporific
|
inducing or tending to induce sleep
|
|
|
Vapid
|
Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull
|
