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20 Cards in this Set
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Annex (Verb) "To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I wouldannex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far." -Cecil Rhodes |
Definition: append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document. Synonym: addition; attachment Antonym: lessen |
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Devitalize (Verb) “Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.” -William S. Burroughs |
Definition: deprive of strength and vigor. Synonym: debilitate Antonym: nurture |
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Improvise (Verb) "Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise." -George Gershwin |
Definition: create and perform (music, drama, or verse) spontaneously or without preparation. Synonym: Extemporize Antonym: Prepare |
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Precipitous (Adjective) "The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging."- Timothy Geithner |
Definition: dangerously high or steep. Synonym: steep Antonym: flat |
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Cleave (Verb) "Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood and there am I." -Henry Van Dyke |
Definition: split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain. Synonym: rive antonym: tie together |
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Embroil (Verb) “Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.” -Joseph Conrad |
Definition: involve (someone) deeply in an argument, conflict, or difficult situation Synonym: ensnare Antonym: exclude |
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Incite (Verb) "The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot."-Audre Lorde |
Definition: encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behavior). Synonym: instigate Antonym: quell |
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Profuse (adjective) " Travelers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest."-Richard Francis Burton |
Definition: (especially of something offered or discharged) exuberantly plentiful; abundant. Synonym: copious Antonym: scarce |
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Cordial (adjective) "I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial." -Mariah Carey |
Definition: warm and friendly. Synonym: amiable Antonym: standoffish |
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Exonerate (Verb) "I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself."-T. D. Jakes |
Definition: (especially of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case. Synonym: exculpate Antonym: convict |
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Influx (Noun) "In order to keep up with the influx of work I had to take on fresh hands." -James Nasmyth |
Definition: an arrival or entry of large numbers of people or things. Synonym: inundation Antonym: departure |
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Reconcile (Verb) "Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship." -Mariella Frostrup |
Definition: restore friendly relations between Synonym: assuage Antonym: provoke |
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Cornerstone (Noun) "Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life."-Wayne Dyer |
Definition: an important quality or feature on which a particular thing depends or is based. Synonym: foundation Antonym: support |
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Glib (adjective) “I want that glib and oily art; to speak and purpose not." -William Shakespeare |
Definition: (of words or the person speaking them) fluent and voluble but insincere and shallow. Synonym: loquacious Antonym: inarticulate |
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Pallor (Noun) “The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.” -JD Salinger |
Definition: an unhealthy pale appearance. Synonym: sallowness Antonym: vibrance |
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Shackle (Noun) "Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision."-Salvador Dali |
Definition: a pair of fetters connected together by a chain, used to fasten a prisoner's wrists or ankles together. Synonym: Chains Antonym: Free |
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Debacle (Noun) “Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.” -Milan Kundera |
Definition: a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco. Synonym: catastrophe Antonym: accomplishment |
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Haphazard (adjective) "Improvisation is terribly haphazard." -Leo Ornstein |
Definition: lacking any obvious principle of organization. Synonym: disorderly Antonym: organized |
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Pedigree (Noun) “If there is any good in philosophy, it is this: that it never looks into pedigrees.” -Seneca |
Definition: the recorded ancestry, especially upper-class ancestry, of a person or family. Synonym: well-bred Antonym: base-born |
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Threadbare (adjective) “If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare”-William Arnot |
Definition: (of cloth, clothing, or soft furnishings) becoming thin and tattered with age. Synonym: shabby Antonym: unused |
