Collegiate Vocabulary & English Grammar Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the provided lecture notes on collegiate words and English grammar.

Abase

To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.

Abhorrence

The act of detesting extremely.

Abstruse

Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.

Acumen

Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination.

Adroit

Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.

Aeronaut

One who navigates the air, a balloonist.

Affable

Easy to approach.

Aggrandize

To cause to appear greatly.

Alacrity

Cheerful willingness.

Allay

To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.

Altruism

Benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest.

Ambidextrous

Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease.

Anachronism

Something occurring or existing out of its proper time.

Animadversion

The utterance of criticism or censure.

Antagonism

Mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles, or persons.

Anticlimax

A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.

Apathy

Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling.

Arbiter

One chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters.

Debonair

Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner.

Beck

To give a signal to, by nod or gesture.

Benediction

a solemn invocation of the divine blessing.

Benevolent

Loving others and actively desirous of their well-being.

Beatify

To make supremely happy.

Bibulous

Fond of drinking.

Blithe

Joyous.

Blockade

The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces.

Botanical

Connected with the study or cultivation of plants.

Bowdlerize

To expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages.

Bravado

An aggressive display of boldness.

Brevity

Shortness of duration.

Brusque

Somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech.

Buffoonery

Low drollery, coarse jokes, etc.

Monograph

A treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject.

Ambulance

A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.

Debonair

Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner.

Commentary

A series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work.

Calumny

Defamation.

Bellicose

Warlike.

Belligerent

Manifesting a warlike spirit.

Alacrity

Joyous willingness.

Chronometer

A portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision.

Acerbity

Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.

Acrimonious

Indignant.

Chromatic

Abounding in color.

Copious

Abounding or overflowing in quantity or supply.

Abrasion

That which is rubbed off.

Acme

The highest point, or summit.

Accurate

Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.

Acknowledge

Recognized or recognized the genuineness or validity of.

Acquiesce

To comply.

Abdicate

To give up (royal power or the like).

Complacent

Pleasing or satisfying.

Ambiguous

Having a double meaning.

Amorphous

Having no certain shape.

Ascent

The act of going.

Arrant

Notoriously bad.

Dyne

The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.

Anemia

Deficiency of blood or red corpuscles.

Annotate

To make explanatory.

Expect

To look forward to as certain or probable.

Deleterious

Tending to fall apart.

Arid

Very dry.

Adverse

Opposing or opposed.

Adversity

Misfortune.

Audacious

Fearless.

Dauntless

Fearless.

Accost

To speak to.

Agglomerate

To pile or heap together.

Dialectician

A logician.

Athirst

Wanting water.

Aqueduct

A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.

Ardent(adj)

Burning with passion.

Covenant

An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.

Emanate

To proceed, as from some origin.

Emancipate

The act putting aside or of releasing from bondage.

Bewilder

To confuse the perceptions or judgment of.

Brokerage

The business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker.

Bibliophile

One who loves books.

Doublet

One of a pair of like things.

Bier

A long horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.

Bigamist

One who has has two spouses at the same time.

Authentic

Warranted,

Atrocious

Outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.

Acid

Sour substance.

Angular

Sharp-cornered.

Absent-Minded

Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.

Bailiff

An officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment.

Banal

Commonplace

Concord

Harmonious

Aperture

Hole

Assent

To express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion.

Almanac

A series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information.

Callow

Without experience of the world.

Blaspheme

Indulge in profane oaths.

Frigid

Lacking warmth.

Defamation

Malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another.

Allegory

The setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness.

Explicit

Definite.

Despicable

Contemptible.

Covert

Conceal.