Untitled Flashcards Set

  • Abject: Hopeless extremely sad and servile; defeated

  • Abridge: To shorten without losing key content.

  • Adroit: Skillful and clever

  • Antipathy: A deep dislike

  • Acrid: Sharp or bitter in smell or taste.

  • Audacity: boldness; reckless daring; impertinence

  • Belie: Fail to give true notion; or contradict

  • Beset: to harrass to surround 

  • Burgeon: To grow or develop rapidly; to flourish.

  • Cajole: To persuade through flattery or coaxing.

  • Capricious: Impulsive; prone to sudden mood changes.

  • Castigate: To criticize or reprimand severely.

  • Celibacy: Abstaining from marriage and sexual relations.

  • Charisma: Magnetic charm or appeal.

  • Culpable: Deserving blame or at fault.

  • Conciliatory: making peace; attempting to

    resolve a dispute through goodwill

  • Depravity: Moral corruption or wickedness.

  • Dogmatic: characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts

  • Evanescent: Quickly fading or disappearing.

  • Farcical: Absurd or ludicrous

  • Insipid: Lacking flavor, vigor, or interest; dull.

  • Ostentatious: Showy; designed to attract attention.

  • Perfunctory: careless; unenthusiastic

  • Perquisite: a privilege that goes along with a job; a “perk”

  • Polarize: To divide into opposing groups.

  • Proliferate: To increase rapidly in numbers; multiply.

  • Spurious: False or counterfeit; not genuine.

  • Stagnation: Inactivity or lack of growth.

  • Superficial: Concerned only with surface aspects; lacking depth.

  • Vociferous: Loud and forceful in expressing opinions.

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