• Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/100

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

100 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back

Euphemism

Use of agreeable or inoffensive language in place of unpleasant language

Exacerbate

To aggravate, make worse

Exculpate

To clear of blame, vindicate

Execrable

Detestable, abhorrent

Exigency

Crisis, urgent requirements

Existential

Having to do with existence, based on experience, having to do with philosophy of existentialism

Extant

In existence, not lost

Extirpate

To root up, destroy

Extraneous

Not essential

Extrapolation

Act of estimation by projecting known info

Facetous

Humorous

Fallacious

Based on a false idea or fact, misleading

Fatuous

Foolishly self satisfied

Fawning

Seeking favor by flattery

Felicitous

Suitably expressed appropriate, well chosen

Fledgling

Beginner novice

Foment

To incite, arouse

Forestall

To prevent delay

Fractious

Quarrelsome, unruly, rebellious

Frugality

Thrift

Fulminate

To attack loudly, denounce

Gainsay

To deny, dispute, oppose

Garrulous

Very talkative, wordy

Grandiloquent

Pompous, bombastic

Gregarious

Sociable

Guilleless

Free from cunning or deceit, artless

Guile

Deception or trickery

Gullible

Easily decieved

Harangue

Long pompous speech, tirade

Heterdox

Unorthodox, not widely accepted

Histrionic

Relating to exaggerated emotional behavior calculated for effect, theatrical arts or performances

Homily

Sermon, tedious moralizing lecture, plattitude

Homogeneous

Composed of identical parts, uniform in composition

Hyperbole

Purposeful exaggeration for effect

Iconoclastic

Attacking cherished traditions

Ideological

Ideology, the set of ideas that form the basis for a political system

Idolatry

Idol worship, blind or excessive devotion

Igneous

Produced by fire, volcanic

Immutable

Unchangeable

Impassive

Showing no emotion

Impermeable

Impossible to penetrate

Imperturbable

Not easily disturbed

Impervious

Impossible to penetrate

Implacable

Inflexible, incapable of being pleased

Implicit

Implied, understood but not stated

Inadvertantly

Careless, unintentionally

Inchoate

Imperfectly formed or formulated

Incongruity

State of not fitting

Indeterminate

Uncertain, indefinate

Indigence

Poverty

Indolent

Habitually lazy, idol

Ineluctable

Not to be avoided or escaped

Inert

Unable to move, sluggish

Ingenuous

Naive and trusting, lacking sophistication

Inherant

Firmly established by nature or habit

Innocuous

Harmless

Insensible

Unconcious, unresponsive

Insinuate

To suggest, say indirectly, imply

Insipid

Lacking in flavors, dull

Insularity

Narrow mindedness, isolation

Intractable

Not easily managed

Intransigence

Stubbornness, refusal to compromise

Inundate

To cover with water, overwhelm

Inured

Hardened, accustomed, used to

Invective

Verbal abuse

Irascible

Easily angered

Irresolute

Unsure of how to act, weak

Juxtapose

Place side by side

Laconic

Using few words

Lassitude

Lethargy, sluggishness

Laud

To praise

Lethargic

Inactive

Levity

Light manner or attitude

Limpid

Clear, transparent

Loquacious

Talkative

Lucid

Bright, clear, intelligible

Magnanimity

Generosity, nobility

Malinger

Feign illness to escape duty

Malleable

Impressionable

Maverick

Dissenter

Mendacious

Dishonest

Meritricious

Gaudy, plausible but false, specious

Metamorphisis

Change, transformation

Meticulous

Very careful, fastidious

Misanthrope

One who hates humanity

Misogynist

One who hates women

Mitigate

To cause to become less harsh, alleviate

Mollify

To soothe

Morose

I'll humored, sullen

Mundane

Worldly as opposed to spiritual, concerned with the ordinary

Neophyte

Novice, beginner

Obdurate

Stubborn

Obsequious

Overly submissive

Obviate

To make unnecessary, to anticipate or prevent

Occlude

To shut, block

Officious

Too helpful, meddlesome

Onerous

Burdensome

Opprobrium

Disgust, contempt

Oscillate

To move back and forth

Ostentatious

Showy, trying to attract attention, pretentious