Vocabulary Flashcards from Lecture Notes

LETHARGY

• Lack of energy.

TRUDGED

• Slowly walked.

BURDENSOME

• Difficult to carry.

EMBELLISHED

• Decorated.

MEND

• Repair.

OPPRESSIVE

• Unjust hardship.

TREACHEROUSLY

• In a way that is dangerous.

EXODUS

• Mass departure of people.

FUNDAMENTAL

• Forming a necessary base or core; essential.

PLIGHT

• Unpleasant situation.

MONOTONE

• Dull.

PREDOMINATE

• Most Common.

RECEPTIVE

• Very open to suggestions, influences, or ideas.

MITIGATE

• Make less serious; alleviate.

INTRICATE

• Very complicated or detailed.

BESEECH

• To beg; ask urgently or fervently.

RECOURSE

• To recover something.
• Go to help.

PROMPTLY

• Punctual; immediately.
• Present.
• Advanced.

UBIQUITOUS

• Present or existing everywhere.

SOPHISTICATED

• Advanced, complex, or refined.

INSINUATED

• Hint.

RAGGED

• Torn.

FUMBLED

• Mistake.

PERKED

• Cheerful.

EUTRAPELIA

• Pleasant.

PATENT

• Property right to protect an invention.

STIFLED

• To choke.

TWINGE

• Sharp.

BEAMED

• Transmit.

SOMBER

• Dark.

TOUSLED

• Untidy (hair).