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Flashcards by Jenna Trost, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Jenna Trost
almost 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Apathy | Lack of emotion or interest |
| Ambiguous | Having more than one meaning |
| Fervent | Passionate |
| Vagrant | A wandering homeless person |
| Revere | To worship |
| Denounce | To speak out against |
| Stagnant | Not moving |
| Candid | Honest; Frank |
| Impartial | Unbiased |
| Ostentatious | Showing off |
| Contentious | Quarrelsome |
| Reprove | To scold; to find fault with |
| Cursory | Hasty, not thorough |
| Profligate | Extremely wasteful; wildly extravagant |
| Miser | Someone who hoards money |
| Jocular | Joking |
| Fracas | Uproar; brawl |
| Corroborate | To confirm |
| Precarious | Dangerously unstable |
| Bolster | To support |
| Daunt | To intimidate; to discourage |
| Superficial | Shallow; on the surface only |
| Lucid | clear; easy to understand |
| Aesthetic | Concerned with art or beauty |
| Prodigal | Extravagant; wasteful |
| Assess | To estimate the value of; to measure |
| Deter | To prevent, especially by threatening |
| Complacent | Smug; self-satisfied; overly confident |
| Contempt | Disdain; hatred |
| Eloquent | Speaking well; articulate |
| Virtue | Moral excellence |
| Guile | Cunning; deceitfulness |
| Censor | To delete objectionable material |
| Hypocritical | Insincere |
| Eccentric | Odd; unusual; quirky |
| Disdain | Contempt; intense dislike |
| Abstract | Theoretical; lacking substance |
| Enigma | Mystery |
| Inevitable | Unavoidable; bound to happen |
| Inferred | Derived by reasoning; implied, as a conclusion |
| Diverse | Varied |
| Apprehensive | Fearful; worried |
| Benevolent | Good; kind-hearted; generous |
| Virulent | Very harmful (like a virus) |
| Pious (piety) | Deadly religious |
| Provincial | Narrow-minded; unsophisticated |
| Resignation | Acceptance of a situation |
| Resolution (resolve) | Determination |
| Servile | Overly submissive; cringing; like a servant |
| Diligent | Hard-working |
| Refute | to disprove |
| Anarchy | lack of government; chaos |
| Miser | One who saves greedily |
| Discord | Disagreement |
| Monotonous | Without variety; tiresome |
| Trivial | Unimportant; insignificant |
| Profound (profundity) | deep; insightful |
| Phenomenon | an observable fact or occurrence |
| Tentative | Temporary; not final |
| Contemporary | Living at the same time; modern |
| Adversary | an opponent; enemy |
| Gravity (grave) | seriousness (second meaning) |
| Banal | common; dull; ordinary |
| Depravity | moral corruption |
| Temper | to moderate; to soften |
| Censure | to blame; to criticize |
| Extol | to praise |
| Erratic | Irregular; without direction |
| Euphony | Pleasant sound |
| Antagonist | Opposition; hostility; resistance |
| Arbitrary | Subject to individual judgment |
| Austere | Severe; without frills |
| Expedite | to make faster or easier |
| Heresy | an opinion violently opposed to established beliefs |
| Condescend | to talk down to |
| Fallacious (fallacy) | false; untrue |
| Intangible | Abstract; not capable of being touched or felt |
| Arrogant | Acting superior to others; snooty |
| Compatible | able to co-exist; harmonious |
| Solicity | to ask for; to seek |
| Elusive (elude) | tough to catch; hard to pin down |
| Facilitate | to make easier; to help |
| Static | Stationary; not moving |
| Ironic | Satiric; unexpected |
| Dogmatic | Stubbornly opinionated |
| Flagrant | Shocking; outstandingly bad |
| Frivolous | Not serious; trivial; silly |
| Taciturn | Quiet; saying little |
| Infamous | Notorious; scandalous |
| Authoritarian | Like a dictator |
| Exhaustive | Thorough; complete |
| Profuse | Flowing freely; generous; excessive |
| Expedient | Useful for effecting a desired result |
| Fastidious | Not easy to please; overly critical |
| Prosaic | Uninspired; dull; banal |
| Languid | slow; tired; drooping; weak |
| Astute | Perceptive; clever |
| Brevity | Briefness |
| Incoherent | Impossible to understand; chaotic |
| Mitigate | To make milder; to make less severe |
| Reprehensible | Shameful; bad |
| Augment | To add; to increase; to make bigger |
| Engender | to create; to produce |
| Deride (derision) | to ridicule; to make fun of |
| Novel | New |
| Solemn | serious; grave |
| Ambivalent | Undecided |
| Reticent | quiet; uncommunicative; taciturn |
| Fervor | passion; zeal; great enthusiasm |
| Scanty | Inadequate; minimal |
| Pragmatic | Practical |
| Didactic | Instructive |
| Deference (defer) | a show of respect |
| Vacillate | to waiver between choices |
| Endorse | to approve of; to give support to |
| Conspicuous | easily seen; out in the open |
| Negligence | carelessness; neglect; indifference |
| Ephemeral | short-lived; fleeting; transitory |
| Relegate | To dismiss to an inferior person |
| Futile | hopeless; worthless; useless |
| Condone | to forgive; to overlook |
| Dissent | disagreement |
| Conciliate | to sooth; to end a dispute; to reconcile |
| Disparity | inequality; difference |
| Disparage | to speak badly of; to belittle |
| Conventional | ordinary; customary; normal; traditional |
| Auspicious | favorable; positive |
| Universal | existing or present everywhere |
| Fickle | Unpredictable; capricious; whimsical |
| Furtive | secretive |
| Remorse | sadness; regret |
| Respite | A rest; a pause; a break |
| Scrutinize | To examine closely |
| Coalesce | To come together; to merge; to join |
| Orthodoz | Standard; commonly accepted; conventional |
| Innate | Inborn; inherited |
| Preclude | to prevent; to make impossible |
| Efface | To erase; to wipe out |
| Marred | Damaged; bruised |
| Ameliorate | To make better; to improve |
| Prodigious | of enormous quantity or size |
| Immutable | Unchanging; permanent |
| Stoic | indifferent to pleasure and pain |
| Innocuous | Harmless |
| Indolence | laziness |
| Amiable | Friendly |
| Laud | to praise |
| Caustic | Burning; uncomplimentary |
| Atrophy | to waste away from lack of use |
| Meander | to wander randomly |
| Instigate | to start trouble |
| Heed | to obey |
| Virtuoso | an accomplished musician |
| Deplete | to use up; to reduce |
| Compliant | Submissive; obedient |
| Inadvertent | Accidental; unintentional |
| Acquiesce | to agree finally; to go along with something |
| Levity | Humor |
| Belittle | to put down; to disparage |
| Extraneous | Irrelevant; extra; unnecessary |
| Digress | to stray away from the subject |
| Emulate | to copy something admired; to imitate |
| Appease | to make peace with; to satisfy |
| Sage (sagacious) | a wise person |
| Nostalgic | yearning for the good old days |
| Assuage | to soothe |
| Saccharine | overly sweety |
| Stanza | a section of a poem |
| Jeopardy | Danger |
| Supercilious | Haughty; arrogant |
| Avarice | Greed |
| Blithe | free-spirited; carefree |
| Scrupulous | Careful; diligent; moral |
| Volatile | Changeable; unstable; explosive |
| Peripheral | on the edge; surrounding; unimportant |
| Hedonistic | pleasure-seeking; indulgent |
| Amity | friendship |
| Benefactor | a generous donor; someone who helps |
| Apocryphal | a doubtful origin; mythical |
| Slander | to defame; to speak maliciously of someone |
| Animosity | hatred |
| Stringent | strict; harsh; severe |
| Hackneyed | banal; over-used |
| Amass | to accumulate; to pile up |
| Verbose | wordy; overly talkative |
| Trepidation | fear |
| Desecrate | to profane a holy place |
| Fortuitous | accidental; happening by chance or luck |
| Vehement | Urgent; passionate; forceful |
| Credulous | gullible; overly trusting |
| Blasphemy | heretical departure from accepted practice |
| Lax | careless; not diligent; relaxed |
| Cryptic | mysterious; puzzling; enigmatic |
| Esoteric | Understood only by a select few |
| Pretentious | Not fitting in; out of place |
| Merger | A joining; a uniting |
| Pedestrian | common; ordinary; banal |
| Prudent | careful; cautious |
| Sycophant | a boot licker; a brown-noser |
| Rescind | to repeal; to take back; formally |
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