Vocab #5 Flashcards

Acrimonious

Caustic; bitter (language)

Ameliorate

To make better; to improve

Amenable

Open to or willing to follow advice; tractable

Amorphous

Shapeless; having no definite form

Buoyant

Capable of floating; cheerful

Cajole

To persuade with deliberate flattery; to coax

Calamity

A serious event causing distress or misfortune

Debase

To reduce in dignity or quality

Efface

To erase; to wear away

Elucidate

To make clear; to explain

Ephemeral

Lasting a short period of time; fleeting

Ferocity

Savagery

Flourish

To thrive; to grow well

Haughty

Arrogant; excessively proud and vain

Impervious

Incapable of being entered or penetrated

Inane

Lacking significance; silly, insipid

Indolence

Laziness

Infallible

Incapable of error

Inscrutable

Difficult to understand; mysterious

Languid

Slow, sluggish, listless, weak

Malice

Desire to harm others

Oblique

Slanting, indirect, evasive, misleading

Opulence

Wealth, affluence, abundance

Penitent

Showing or feeling regret for wrongdoing; repentant

Perfunctory

Acting routinely with little interest or care