Triple BBK Vocab

Vocabulary flashcards based on Triple BBK Vocab lecture notes.

Abrupt

Sudden and unexpected, and often unpleasant.

Adhere to

To continue to obey, believe in, or support something, especially a custom or belief.

Aggravate

To make a bad situation or a disease worse.

Ambivalent

Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

Atypical

Not having all the characteristics that you would usually expect from a particular group of things.

Beneficiary

A person or group who receives money, advantages, etc. as a result of something else.

Buttress

To give support to or strengthen something.

Circumvent

To avoid something, especially cleverly or illegally.

Comparable to

Similar in size, amount, or quality to something else.

Compelling

If a reason, argument, etc. is compelling, it makes you believe it or accept it because it is so strong.

Complementary

Useful or attractive together.

Compose

To form or make up something.

Comprise

To have things or people as parts or members; to consist of.

Conceal

To prevent something from being seen or known about.

Concede

To admit, often unwillingly, that something is true.

Conceptualize

To form an idea or principle in your mind.

Confine

To limit an activity, person, or problem in some way.

Conform to

To behave according to the usual standards of behaviour.

Nonconformity

The quality of living and thinking in a way that is different from other people.

Contrive

To cleverly plan or invent a way of doing something, often by using skill or trickery.

Contrivance

A clever plan, device, or scheme; something that is made or invented to serve a particular purpose.

Critical Acclaim

Praise given by critics, especially for a piece of work such as a book, film, or performance.

Deceptive

Likely to mislead or give a false impression.

Decisive

Able to make decisions quickly and confidently.

Decisive

Strongly affecting how a situation will progress.

Delegate

A person chosen or elected by a group to speak, vote, etc. for them, especially at a meeting.

Derive

To obtain something from a specified source.

Deviate

To do something that is different from the usual or common way of behaving.

Discern

To see, recognize, or understand something that is not clear.

Discernible

Able to be seen or understood.

Disconcerting

Making someone feel uncertain and uncomfortable or worried.

Disengage

To make two things become physically separated.

Disorienting

Making someone confused about where they are, where they are going, or what is happening.

Disparate

Different in every way.

Dispute

A disagreement, especially one that lasts a long time.

Distraction

Something that prevents someone from giving their attention to something else.

Diverge

To follow a different direction, or to be or become different.

Diverse

Including many different types of people or things.

Dormant

Something that is not active or growing but has the ability to be active at a later time.

Eclipse

To make something seem less important or less successful by comparison.

Elusive

Difficult to find, catch, or understand.

Engulf

To surround and cover something or someone completely.

Ensure

To make something certain to happen.

Evolve

To develop gradually, or to cause something or someone to develop gradually.

Exemplify

To be or give a typical example of something.

Extensive

Covering a large area; having a great range.

Fabricate

To invent or produce something false in order to deceive someone.

Foretell

To say what is going to happen in the future.

Foster

To take care of a child; to help something to grow.

Fruitless

Unproductive or ineffective.

Grapple with

To try to deal with or understand a difficult problem.

Haphazard

Not having an obvious order or plan.

Hibernation

A state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals during winter; a period of minimal activity.

Hinder

To limit the ability of someone to do something, or to limit the development of something.

Imminent

Coming or likely to happen very soon.

Impartial

Not supporting any of the sides involved in an argument.

Penetrate

To move through something.

Impenetrable

Impossible to go through or understand.

Perceive

To come to an opinion about something, or have a belief about something.

Imperceptible

Unable to be noticed or felt because of being very slight.

Implement

To start using a plan or system.

Impractical

Impractical arrangements, ideas, or methods cannot be done or used easily or effectively.

Improvise

To invent or make something, such as a speech or a device, at the time when it is needed without already having planned it.

Conclusive

Ending any doubt.

Inconclusive

Not giving or having a result or decision.

Decipher

To discover the meaning of something.

Indecipherable

Unable to be read or understood.

Indifference

Lack of interest.

Explicate

To explain something in detail.

Inexplicable

Unable to be explained or understood.

Infallible

Never wrong, failing, or making a mistake.

Infrequent

Not happening very often.

Innocuous

Completely harmless.

Interject

To insert a comment, question, or remark suddenly into a conversation.

Intersect

To cross one another (of lines, roads, etc.).

Intricate

Having a lot of small parts that are arranged in a complicated or delicate way.

Intriguing

Very interesting because of being unusual or mysterious.

Invalidate

To make something not true, or to make something unacceptable.

Validate

To make something officially acceptable or approved, especially after examining it.

Involuntarily

In a way that is not willing, intentional, or by choice.