Vocabulary 7

Front 1

austere

Back 1

stern, as in manner without excess, severely pain


ascetic, astringent, cold, earnest, exacting, forbidding, formal, grave, grim, hard, harsh

Front 2

ornate

Back 2

elaborately or excessively decorated


adorned, aureate, baroque, beautiful, bedecked, bright, brilliant, busy, colored, convoluted, dazzling, elaborate, elegant, embroidered, fancy, fine, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, florid,

Front 3

cerebral

Back 3

of or relating to the brain; intellectual in nature


analytical, brainy, deep, erudite, intellectual, intelligent, recondite, scholarly, smart

Front 4

incommodious

Back 4

lacking space; uncomfortable


unhandy, unmanageable, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely, unwieldy, vexatious

Front 5

noisome

Back 5

offensive; disgusting


baneful, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, disgusting, fetid, foul, harmful, horrid, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, insalutary, loathsome, malodorous, mephitic, mischievous, nauseating, noxious, pernicious,

Front 6

cacophony

Back 6

harsh sounds; disturbing noise


discord, harshness, noise

Front 7

veritable

Back 7

unquestionable; actual; true


actual, bona fide, factual, for real, genuine, indubitable, kosher*, legit, real, true, undoubted, unquestionable, very

Front 8

verbatim

Back 8

using exacatly the same words, word for word


accurately, direct, directly, literally, literatim, precisely, sic, to the letter,

Front 9

concurrent

Back 9

at the same time; acting in conjunction


circumstantial, coeval, coexisting, coincident, concerted, concomitant, contemporaneous, in sync, incidental, parallel, synchronal, synchronous

Front 10

evade

Back 10

to elude or avoid by cunning; to flee from a pursuer


avoid, baffle, balk, beat around bush, beg the question, bypass, cavil, circumvent, conceal, confuse, cop out, deceive, decline, dodge, double, duck, elude, equivocate, escape,

Front 11

impede

Back 11

to obstruct or interfere with; to delay


bar, block, blow whistle on, brake, check, clog, close off, cramp one's style, curb, cut off, dam, delay, deter, discomfit, disconcert, disrupt, embarrass, faze,

Front 12

askew

Back 12

to one side; crooked



askance, askant, aslant, awry, bent, buckled, catawampus, cockeyed, crookedly, curved, knotted, lopsided, oblique,

Front 13

queue

Back 13

to form or wait in line; a (waiting) line


chain, concatenation, echelon, file, line, order, progression, rank, row, series, string

Front 14

accolade

Back 14

award or honor


approval, award, badge, decoration, distinction, honor, kudos*, laurels

Front 15

torrid

Back 15

parched by the sun; hot, burning



arid, austral, blazing, blistering, boiling, broiling, burning, dried, dry, fiery, heated, parched, parching, red-hot, scalding,

Front 16

trepidation

Back 16

fear; state of anxiety or fear that makes you tremble



agitation, alarm, apprehension, blue funk, butterflies, cold feet, cold sweat, consternation, creeps, dismay, disquiet, disturbance, dread, emotion, excitement, fear, fright, goose bumps,

Front 17

fraught

Back 17

teeming with; laden; full; causing emotional distress

abounding, attended, bristling, charged, filled, heavy, laden, replete, stuffed

Front 18

wane

Back 18

to decrease gradually



abate, atrophy, decline, decrease, die away, die down, die out, dim, draw to a close, drop, dwindle, ease off, ebb, fade,

Front 19

oust

Back 19

to eject; to force; to banish


banish, bereave, boot out, bounce*, bundle off, cast out, chase, depose, deprive, dethrone, discharge, disinherit, dislodge, displace, dispossess, divest, drive out, eject, evict,

Front 20

temerity

Back 20

recklessness; wild craziness; disregard for danger



assurance, boldness, brass, carelessness, daring, effrontery, foolhardiness, forwardness, gall, hardihood, hastiness, heedlessness, impertinence, impetuosity, imprudence,