Vocabulary Flashcards from Lecture Notes

These flashcards cover vocabulary terms and their definitions from the lecture notes.

Truncheon

A thick stick carried as a weapon by a police officer.

Aureole

A radiant light around the head or body of a figure.

Dissemble

To conceal one's true motives, feelings, or beliefs.

Mutable

Liable to change.

Myriad

A countless or extremely great number.

Labyrinthine

Irregular and twisting, like a labyrinth.

Palimpsest

A manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing.

Pannikin

A small pan or cup.

Vapid

Offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging.

Incredulous

Unwilling or unable to believe something.

Furtive

Attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt.

Sinecure

A position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit.

Palpable

Able to be touched or felt; clear to the mind.

Anodyne

Pacifier

Convoluted

Extremely complex and difficult to follow.

Officious

Assertive of authority in a domineering way, especially with regard to petty or trivial matters.

Lassitude

A state of physical or mental weariness; lack of energy.

Fatuous

Silly and pointless.

To etiolate

To cause to become weakened or stunted.

Obeisant

Showing respect and obedience.

Rendezvous

A meeting at an agreed time and place.

Prosaic

Lacking poetic beauty; commonplace.

Muslin

A light, thin fabric made of cotton.

Febrile

Having or showing the symptoms of a fever.

Ramification

A consequence of an action or event, especially when complex or unwelcome.

Simian

Resemble apes or monkeys

Demur

Raise doubts

Personage

Mock, banter

Feral

Insane, wild

Fecund

Fertile, birthing

Spurious

False, fake

Inimical

Harm, hurt

Avaricious

Greedy, grasping

Nucleus

Core, center

To ossify

Turn bone, harden

Livid

Angry, furious

Illicit

Forbidden by law, rules, or custom.

Insidious

Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.

Surly

Bad-tempered and unfriendly.

Prevaricate

To speak or act in an evasive way.

To Vindicate

To clear someone of blame or suspicion.

To Quail

To feel or show fear or apprehension.

To Degrade

To treat or regard someone with contempt or disrespect.

Forlorn

Pitifully sad and abandoned.

Torpid

Mentally or physically inactive; lethargic.

Premonitory

Serving to warn beforehand.

To Cauterize

To burn the skin or flesh of a wound with a hot instrument.

Abstruse

Difficult to understand; obscure.

Equivocation

The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth.

Heretic

A person holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted.