• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/44

Click to flip

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;

44 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back
  • 3rd side (hint)

vapid

lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull

soporific

inducing or tending to induce sleep

prosaic

unimaginative; dull

insipid

uninteresting; not challenging; lacking taste or savor

hackneyed

worn out through overuse; trite

banal

drearily commonplace; predictable; trite

austere

without decoration; strict

prescience

knowledge of actions/ events before they occur; foreknowledge; foresight

onerous

troublesome or oppressive; burdensome

portent

indication of something important or calamitous; about to occur; omen

temporal

of; relating to; limited by time

redolent

fragrant; aromatic; suggestive

ephemeral

lasting for only a brief time

debacle

disastrous or ludicrous defeat or failure; fiasco

debilitate

impair the strength of; weaken

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

ingenuous

lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness

antonym: disingenuous

subterfuge

deceptive stratagem or device

dearth

scarce supply; lack

modium

small, moderate, or token amount

paucity

smallness in number; scarcity

squander

to spend wastefully

temperate

moderate; restrained

antonym: intemperate

tenuous

having little substance or strength; shaky

maverick

one who is independent and restrains adherence to a group

mercenary

motivated solely by a desire for money or material gain

obstinate

stubbornly attached to an opinion or course of action

proliferate

to grow or increase rapidly

tenacity

persistence

vigilant

on the alert; watchful

juxtapose

to place side by side; especially for comparison/contrast

superfluous

extra; unnecessary

synergy

combined action or operation

tangential

merely touching or slightly connected; only superficially relevant

aural

of or relating to the ear or the sense of hearing

cacophony

discordant, unpleasant noise

dirge

funeral hymn or lament

eclectic

made up of a variety of sources or styles

incongruous

lacking in harmony; incompatible

sonorous

producing a deep or full sound

strident

loud, harsh, grating, or shrill