Vocab A2

Front 1

premonish (v)

Back 1

to give warning in advance, to forwarn

Front 2

insipid (adj)
insipidity (n)

Back 2

lacking taste or savor to please
2. lacking in qualites that stimulate, interest, or challenge

Front 3

bellicose (adj) belicosity (n)

Back 3

favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars

Front 4

precarious(adj) precariously(adv) precariousness(n)

Back 4

1. depending on the will or pleasure of another. 2. dependent on uncertain premises.
3. dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain developments, characterized by lack of security or stability

Front 5

promulgate (v)
promulgation (n)

Back 5

to declare (as a doctrine) known by open declaration: proclaim
2. to make known or public as a law,
3. to put into action or force

Front 6

effulgence(noun), effulgent(adj)

Back 6

radiant, splendor: brilliance, to shine forth

Front 7

eros (n)

Back 7

fundamental creative impulse or love havine a sensual element, erotic love or desire, instincts that are manifested to gratify basic needs as sublimated impulses, ex. sexual desire

Front 8

annex (v)

Back 8

at attatch as a quality, consequence, or condition.2
to join together materially: unite 3. to add to comething earlier, larger, or more importance, to incorporate a country within the domain of a state

Front 9

evince (v) evincible(adj)

Back 9

to constitute outward evidence of 2. to display clearly: reveal

Front 10

paradox

Back 10

an apparent contradiction caused by words that in fact is no contradiction at all, a statement that appears contradictory or opposed to common sense by in fact could be true

Front 11

rancor

Back 11

bitter deep-seated ill will

Front 12

confluence (n)

Back 12

1. a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point 2. the place of meeting or two streams formed by junction

Front 13

malignant (adj)

Back 13

evil in nature, disaffected
2. injurious, passionately and relentlessly malicious
3. tending to produce death or deterioration

Front 14

repine (v) repiner(n)

Back 14

to feel or express dejection or discontent. 2. to long for something

Front 15

antinomy(noun), antinomic(adj)

Back 15

a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles. 2. a fundamental and apparently unresolvable conflict or contradiction