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;
53 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
Adibe |
To put up with |
|
Abject |
Wretched, pitiful |
|
Adhere |
To follow devoutly |
|
Aesthetic |
Artistic, related to the appreciation of beauty |
|
Anarchist |
One who wants to eliminate all government |
|
Apprehend |
To seize, arrest |
|
Arboreal |
Of or relating to trees |
|
Astute |
Very clever, crafty |
|
Blemish |
An imperfection or flaw |
|
Burnish |
To polish, shine |
|
Cerebral |
Related to the intellect |
|
Clergy |
Members of Christian holy orders |
|
Collateral |
Security for a debt |
|
Compress |
To apply pressure, squeeze together |
|
Consign |
To give something over to another's care |
|
Consultation |
An act of comforting |
|
Contentious |
Having a tendency to quarrel or dispute |
|
Deface |
To ruin or injure something's appearance |
|
Deleterious |
Harmful |
|
Dirge |
A mournful song, especially for a funeral |
|
Disheartened |
Feeling a loss of spirit of morale |
|
Dissemble |
To conceal, fake |
|
Emaciated |
Very thin, enfeeble looking |
|
Enfranchise |
To grant the vote to |
|
Fecund |
Fruitful, fertile |
|
Felicitous |
Delightful, pleasing |
|
Forsake |
To give up, renounce |
|
Grandiloquence |
Lofty, pompous language |
|
Hallowed |
Revered, consecrated |
|
Implement |
To put into effect, to institute |
|
Incarnate |
existing in the flesh, embodied |
|
Incendiary |
A person who agitates |
|
Integral |
Necessary for completeness |
|
Latent |
Hidden, capable of being exposed |
|
Morass |
A wet swampy big, figuratively, something that traps and confuses |
|
Nascent |
In the process of being born or coming into existent |
|
Obscure |
Unclear, partially hidden |
|
Oration |
A speech delivered in a formal or ceremonious matter |
|
Ostentatious |
Excessively showy, glitzy |
|
Perspicacity |
Shrewdness, perceptiveness |
|
Platitude |
An uninspired remark, cliche |
|
Proscribe |
To condemn, outlaw |
|
Prurient |
Eliciting or possessing an extraordinary interested in sex |
|
Renunciation |
To reject |
|
Repulse |
To push back |
|
Reputable |
A good reputation |
|
Sedetary |
Sitting, settled |
|
Submissive |
Easily yielding to authority |
|
Trite |
Not original, overused |
|
Turpitude |
Depravity, moral corruption |
|
Validate |
To confirm, support, corroborate |
|
Vindicate |
To avenge, free from allegations, to set free |
|
Wizened |
Dry, shrunken wrinkled |