Vocabulary Flashcards: Key Words and Definitions for Advanced Learners

Animosity

strong dislike; bitter hostility

Apathy

a lack of feeling, emotion, or interest

Apprehensive

fearful or anxious, especially for the future

Commend

to praise, express approval; to present as worth of attention

Compatible

able to get along or work well together

Condolence

an expression of sympathy

Consecrate

to make sacred, hallow; to set apart for a special purpose

Decrepit

old and feeble; worn out, ruined

Deride

to ridicule, laugh at with contempt

Ingenuous

innocent

Multifarious

having great variety; numerous and diverse

Obsolete

out-of-date, no longer in use

Omnivorous

eating every kind of food; having a wide variety of tastes

Parsimonious

stingy, miserly, meager, poor, small

Quandary

a state of perplexity or doubt

Recalcitrant

stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority

Reprisal

an injury done in return for injury

Revel

to take great pleasure in; (n.) - a wild celebration

Stultify

to make ineffective or useless, cripple

Suave

smoothly agreeable or polite; pleasing to the senses