Vocabulary - 7

Front 1

Parsimonious

Back 1

Miserly
"Katie is so parsimonious that she only buys a pair of socks once she has holes in the ones she wears"

Front 2

Eschew

Back 2

Avoid
"Politicians are the masters of eschewing morals"

Front 3

Censure

Back 3

Express disapproval
"The city council censured mayor after he was found in bed with a mistress"

Front 4

Gall

Back 4

Rudeness
"The arrogant boy had the gall to barge in the bakery and cut in front of the old lady"

Front 5

Extant

Back 5

Still in existence
"Jenny used to wear the extant pair of jeans from 1980s"

Front 6

Screed

Back 6

Abusive rant
"She launched into a long screed against Patriarchy when the topic of Feminism was touched"

Front 7

Turpitude

Back 7

Moral wickedness
"The mayor was accused of committing unspeakable acts of moral turpitude, and hence was sent for courtroom trial"

Front 8

Subsumed

Back 8

Contain, include
"The rising river subsumed the entire village and the inhabitants were forced to abandon their homes"

Front 9

Impertinent

Back 9

Disrespectful
"The comparison between The Beatles and One Direction is wholly impertinent"

Front 10

Veracious

Back 10

Truthful
"We hope our leaders to be veracious, but history has shown to have such hope is naive"

Front 11

Gossamer

Back 11

Delicate
"The gossamer wings of a butterfly, which allow it to fly, are also its curse, so delicate that they often are damaged"

Front 12

Exiguity

Back 12

Meagerness
"After 2 months at sea, the exiguity of ship's supplies forced them to search for fresh water and food"

Front 13

Disaffected

Back 13

Discontent
"The lack of raises forced the disaffected worker to rebel against the authority"

Front 14

Bucolic

Back 14

Rural
"The noble families of England once owned the vast expanses of bucolic land"

Front 15

Refractory

Back 15

Stubbornly resistant
"Cancer is a refractory disease"

Front 16

Demur

Back 16

Object
"Mark disliked the cold, so when his friends asked him to come for skiing, he demurred"

Front 17

Inveterate

Back 17

Habitual
"Being an inveterate snooker player, he feels uneasy when he goes a couple of days without playing"

Front 18

Acrimony

Back 18

Bitterness
"An acrimonious dispute"

Front 19

Torpor

Back 19

Sluggishness
"After a huge thanksgiving meal, my family falls into a torpor, no one can even pick up the TV remote"

Front 20

Inexorable

Back 20

Impossible to stop
"The rise of the computer was an inexorable shift in technology and culture"

Front 21

Execrate

Back 21

Curse, hiss at
"The people rose to execrate the alleged rapist when he entered the courtroom"

Front 22

Mawkish

Back 22

Overly sentimental
"The film was incredibly mawkish, introducing likeable characters only to have them succumb to a devastating illness by the end of the movie"

Front 23

Gainsay

Back 23

Speak out against
"I can't gainsay a single piece of evidence presented by James, but I still don't trust his conclusion"

Front 24

Denigrate

Back 24

Attack a reputation
"Peter denigrated the new theory of heat, demonstrating that it was wholly inadeuquate to explain the observations"

Front 25

Galvanized

Back 25

Urge into action
"The team was galvanized into clinching victory, all thanks to coach's quick motivational speech"

Front 26

Calumny

Back 26

Slander
"With the presidential primaries under way, the air is thick with calumny, and the mud already waist-high"

Front 27

Querulous

Back 27

Complaining
"Querulous old woman"

Front 28

Recondite

Back 28

Difficult to penetrate, incomprehensible
"Theory of relativity often comes across as a recondite subject to deal with"

Front 29

Travesty

Back 29

Mockery
"What I expected to be an intelligent, nuanced historical documentary, turned out to be a poorly-produced travesty of the form"

Front 30

Parochial

Back 30

Narrow minded
"Parochial mentality"

Front 31

Incisive

Back 31

Highly analytical
"Incisive write up on current affairs of economics"

Front 32

Predilection

Back 32

Predisposition in favor of something, strong liking
"He had a predilection for expensive cars"

Front 33

Quotidian

Back 33

Mundane
"Mark is always happy, he would even find enthusiasm in some of the most quotidian events of everyday life"

Front 34

Egregious

Back 34

Shockingly bad
"The PM is disliked by many for his offensive tone, but it would take something quite egregious to bring the whole cabinet to eject him"

Front 35

Reprobate

Back 35

Unprincipled person
"Those reprobates drinking all day down the river. They're not going to amount too much"

Front 36

Askance

Back 36

Suspicious
"The offer was too good to be true, hence he looked askance"

Front 37

Sententious

Back 37

Pompously moralizing
"The old man, casting his nose up in the air, intoned sententiously at the teenagers, "Youth is wasted on the young". "

Front 38

Ingratiate

Back 38

Seek favor from another
"John would often ingratiate himself to her new boss, to make a good first impression"

Front 39

Enervate

Back 39

Sap energy from
"The boring lecture enervated the life out of me"

Front 40

Venality

Back 40

Corrupt
"Even the most sacred sporting events are not immune to venality since many past officers have confessed to accepting bribes"

Front 41

Pejorative

Back 41

Disapproving
"One must refrain from pejorative labeling"

Front 42

Mordant

Back 42

Biting, caustic
"Mordant remarks about company policy"

Front 43

Palaver

Back 43

Babble, empty talk
"Let's do away with the political palaver and get to the point"

Front 44

Rankle

Back 44

Get under one's skin
"The injustice rankled her and she launched into a tirade in the middle of the courtroom"

Front 45

Deferential

Back 45

Respectful
"The young woman didn't fit the meek, deferential stereotype of a middle aged japanese woman"

Front 46

Venerate

Back 46

Respected
"The professor, despite his soporific lectures, was highly venerated among colleagues"

Front 47

Solecism

Back 47

Social blunder
"He'd often commit embarrasing solecisms like burping at the dinner table in front of everyone"

Front 48

Profligate

Back 48

Recklessly wasteful
"The state has been profligate, spending millions on military while their citizens starve"

Front 49

Germane

Back 49

Relevant
"He asks questions that are germane and relevant to the issue"

Front 50

Mulct

Back 50

Penalty, deprive of by deceit
"The fake diet plan ended up mulcting Amy out of hundreds of dollars, but did nothing for her weight"

Front 51

Restive

Back 51

Restless
"The crowd grew restive"

Front 52

Upbraid

Back 52

Scold harshly
"he upbraided his barber after the latter gave him a bad haircut"

Front 53

Ignominious

Back 53

Disgraceful
"An ignominious defeat "

Front 54

Staid

Back 54

Serious, dignified
"A staid dinner party which is heavy on important guests but light on the laughs"

Front 55

Raffish

Back 55

Slightly disreputable
"The men found him raffish, but the women adored his smart clothes and casual attitude"

Front 56

Platitudes

Back 56

Obvious truth, trite remark
"He speaks only in platitudes, about greatness, success and winning"