Vocab Test 11/5

Front 1

Adversary

Back 1

Enemy or opponent

Front 2

Alienate

Back 2

To turn away
To make indifferent or hostile

Front 3

Artifice

Back 3

skillfull indigenous device
Clever trick

Front 4

Coerce

Back 4

To compel of force

Front 5

Craven

Back 5

Cowardly or Coward

Front 6

Culinary

Back 6

Cooking skills

Front 7

Delete

Back 7

To erase or wipe out

Front 8

Demise

Back 8

Death, especially to noblity

Front 9

Neligible

Back 9

So unimportant it can be discarded

Front 10

Perpertrate

Back 10

Make permanent

Front 11

Precedent

Back 11

An example that may serve as an for later action

Front 12

Punitive

Back 12

Inflicting

Front 13

Redress

Back 13

To make right

Front 14

Sojourn

Back 14

Temporary stay or to stay a time

Front 15

Urbane

Back 15

Suave or refined in manner of behavior or style

Front 16

exhilerate

Back 16

Enliven/Cheer/Give spirit and livelness

Front 17

fallow

Back 17

Plowed but not seeded
Land left unseeded
To plow but not seed

Front 18

harass

Back 18

To disturb, worry or trouble

Front 19

inclement

Back 19

Storm harsh/severe in action

Front 20

muse

Back 20

To ponder

Front 21

Adroit

Back 21

Skillful expert in the use of hands or mind

Front 22

Amicable

Back 22

Peaceable/Friendly

Front 23

Averse

Back 23

Having deep seated distaste/Opposed/Unwilling

Front 24

Belligerent

Back 24

Given to fighting/warlike/agressive

Front 25

benelovent

Back 25

Kind/charitable

Front 26

Cursory

Back 26

hastly, not thorough

Front 27

Duplicity

Back 27

Treacherous/Decietful

Front 28

Extol

Back 28

To praise extravagently

Front 29

Feasible

Back 29

Possible

Front 30

Grimace

Back 30

Wry face
to make a wry face

Front 31

holocaust

Back 31

great destruction, especially by fire

Front 32

impervious

Back 32

not affected or hurt by

Front 33

impetus

Back 33

moving force, impuls, stimulis.

Front 34

jeopardy

Back 34

danger

Front 35

meticulous

Back 35

extremely careful/details

Front 36

nostalgia

Back 36

looking for past/homesickness

Front 37

quintessence

Back 37

Purest essence of a form/ most typical form

Front 38

Retrogress

Back 38

To move backward or to return to eariler condition

Front 39

scrutinize

Back 39

examine closely

Front 40

Tepid

Back 40

lukewarm/ unenthusiastic

Front 41

adulterate

Back 41

to corrupt or make worst by adding something of lesser vaule

Front 42

ambidexious

Back 42

being skillfull in both hands

Front 43

augment

Back 43

to make larger/increase

Front 44

bereft

Back 44

deprived of/made unhappy through loss

Front 45

deploy

Back 45

to position or arrange

Front 46

dour

Back 46

stern, unyeilding, ill humored

Front 47

Tortitude

Back 47

courage in facing difficulties

Front 48

gape

Back 48

to stare with open mouth

Front 49

gibe

Back 49

to utter taunting words

Front 50

Guise

Back 50

and external appearence or mask

Front 51

insidious

Back 51

intended to decieve or entrap

Front 52

intimation

Back 52

hint or suggestion

Front 53

opulent

Back 53

wealthy, luxiourous