Vocab Set 6B

Front 1

Mendicant

Back 1

a beggar
---> i cant--> i cant afford food--> therefore u beg for food--> a beggar.

Front 2

Miser
(Miserly)

Back 2

stingy person
not generous; stingy
--> misery--> extreme unhappiness--> if your in misery you would not be in the mood to be generous--> stingy.

Front 3

Mogul

Back 3

a very wealthy or powerful businessperson
a bump on a ski slope
-->??

Front 4

Monastic

Back 4

without luxuries
--> MON--> jamaican--> almost all of them live without luxuries.

Front 5

Munificence

Back 5

generosity
--->??

Front 6

Network

Back 6

interconnected system
--> the computer network--> interconnected system.

Front 7

Opulent

Back 7

wealthy; abundent
--> lent--> you give up something u really like--> if your wealthy you might give up money.

Front 8

Ostentatious
(Ostentation)

Back 8

showy; extravagent
showing off; extravagence
--> ??

Front 9

Pageant
(Pageantry)

Back 9

parade; spectacle
splendid spectacle;
meaningless display
--> beauty pageant--> a beauty spectacle/ competetion.

Front 10

Painstaking

Back 10

very careful
--> if your scared of being in pain you would be very careful to avoid it.

Front 11

Parsimony
(Parsimonious)

Back 11

stinginess; miserless
stingy; cheap
--> mony--> if you have very little money you tend to be stingy or cheap.

Front 12

Patron
(Patronize, Patronage)

Back 12

customer
supporter; sponsor
to talk down to
to buy from; to do business
with
approval and support
--> business patron--> business supporter.

Front 13

Pauper

Back 13

beggar; poor person
--> the prince and the pauper--> prince marries a poor person.

Front 14

Pecuniary
(Impecunious)

Back 14

relating to money
having no money
--> ?/

Front 15

Penurious
(Penury)

Back 15

very poor
stingy
poverty
--> penur--> penny--> if you only have a penny your very poor.

Front 16

Personnel

Back 16

group of workers in an office
--> a manager at a work place has numerous personnel to make sure are working.

Front 17

Philanthropy
(Philanthropic)

Back 17

charity; generosity
charitable; generous
-->??

Front 18

Pomp
(Pompous, Pomposity)

Back 18

magnificent splendor; overdone display
acting self-important
excessive self-importance;
vanity
--> women can be pompous bitches.

Front 19

Impoverish

Back 19

to make poor
--> poverty--> being poor--> to impose poverty on someone--> to make poor.

Front 20

Prestige

Back 20

respect based on rank, wealth, or success
--> A magician's prestige is his respect based on how good of a trickster he is.

Front 21

Primacy

Back 21

first or most important position
--> prime--> first/ most important.

Front 22

Prodigal

Back 22

wasteful; extravagant
-->gal--> girls can be very wasteful on buying shows when you give them your credit card.

Front 23

Profiteer

Back 23

to make excessive money selling scarcse goods
--> profit--> to make money--> if you do that a lot you make excessive money.

Front 24

Profilgate

Back 24

very wasteful; extravagant
--> ??

Front 25

Proprietor

Back 25

a business owner
--> proprietor of Mcdonald's is some man with the last name Mcdonald.

Front 26

Purseless

Back 26

poor
--> if you dont have a purse you are poor.

Front 27

Purveyor

Back 27

supplies
--> the purveyor or supermarkets are the companies that make the food.

Front 28

Rapacity

Back 28

extreme greed
--> ??

Front 29

Remunerate
(Remunerative)

Back 29

to pay for services provided
profitable
--> mun--> re mun--> re money--> repay/ pay for services provided.

Front 30

Retail
(Retailer)

Back 30

sale of goods to individual customers
store that sells to individual
customers
--> ??

Front 31

Revenue

Back 31

entire income
--> venue--> a business--> you make all ur income from working--> entire income.

Front 32

Sedulous

Back 32

hard-working
-->?/

Front 33

Self-Abnegating

Back 33

self-denying; living without luxuries or pleasures
--> gating--> denying yourself entry to luxury.

Front 34

Self-Contained

Back 34

comlpete; independent
--> if your contained by yourself you are independent and can function on your own.

Front 35

Self-Denial

Back 35

denying oneself pleasure
--> denial--> denying oneself pleasure.

Front 36

Sinecure

Back 36

easy, high-paying job
-->?

Front 37

Skinflint

Back 37

a cheap person
--> skin+ flint--> "chipping away at ones own skin"--> being cheap.

Front 38

Solvent
(Invsolvent)

Back 38

a substance that dissolves something
having money
having no money
--> a solvent in chemistry dissolves into a solution

Front 39

Sophisticate
(Sophisticated)

Back 39

a cultured, worldy person
world; not naive
--> "sophisticated drink"---> ie a cultured drink

Front 40

Spendthrift

Back 40

one who spends money wastefully
--> thrift--> to be careful with your money--> to spend thrift would be the opposite and therefore wasteful spending.

Front 41

Squalid
(Squalor)

Back 41

dirty and unpleasant
poor and miserable
a filthy or miserable condition
-->??

Front 42

Squander

Back 42

to spend wastefully
--> to squander money on a store--> to spend wasteful amounts of money in a store.

Front 43

Stipend

Back 43

base-level payment or salary
-->??

Front 44

Subsidize
(Subsidy)

Back 44

to assist financially
financial assistance
--> government subsidized payments--> financial assistance

Front 45

Sumptuous

Back 45

costly; luxurious
--> Sump--> a lot of--> if you buy a lot your costly.

Front 46

Sybarite

Back 46

one who loves luxuries
--> ??

Front 47

Tawdry

Back 47

cheap; tacky; in a bad taste
--> tawdry--> towel dry--> if you dont dry your hands with new air blowing machines your cheap.

Front 48

Transact

Back 48

to carry out; to conduct business
--> transaction--> a business plan--> to carry out said plan.

Front 49

Travail

Back 49

painfully difficult work; suffering
--> ??

Front 50

Trove

Back 50

a collection of treasures
--> treasure trove--> a collection of treasures.

Front 51

Trustee

Back 51

one who manages an institutions business affairs
--> board of trustees--> the board of people who manage the public business affairs.

Front 52

Upstart

Back 52

a new, un-accepted member of the elite
--> start--> beginning--> new.

Front 53

Urbane

Back 53

polite; elegantly mannered; sophisticated
--> urban--> if your from the city your expected to be sophisticated.

Front 54

Vain
(Vanity)

Back 54

useless; worthless
conceited
uselessness
conceit
-->all in vain--> was never worth it.

Front 55

Vaunt

Back 55

to brag
--> ??

Front 56

Viable

Back 56

workable; able to survive
-> a viable option--> an option that works.

Front 57

Vocation

Back 57

occupation; profession
--> ation--> occupation.

Front 58

Wares
(Warehouse)

Back 58

goods for sale
storage place for goods
--> ??