Flashcards: 2010-11 English Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ameliorate | improve |
| banal | hackneyed; commonplace; trite |
| cursory | hastily done; casual |
| disparage | belittle |
| euphemism | mild expression in place of an unpleasant one |
| fallacious | mislead |
| gregarious | sociable |
| hedonism | belief that pleasure is the sole aim in life |
| innate | inborn |
| jocund | merry |
| kindle | start a fire; inspire |
| levity | lightness (in manner or attitude) |
| morose | sullen; ill-humored |
| notoriety | disrepute; ill fame |
| opulence | wealth |
| partisan | one-sided; committed to a party |
| quandary | dilemma |
| relegate | banish; consign to inferior position |
| sycophant | servile flatterer |
| torpid | dormant; lethargic |
| unkempt | disheveled; with uncared-for appearance |
| zealot | fanatic; person who shows excessive enthusiasm |
| augment | increase |
| benign | kindly; not malignant |
| ironic | resulting in an unexpected and contrary manner |
| viable | capable of maintaining life; capable of success or continued effectiveness |
| cajole | coax; wheedle |
| didactic | teaching; instructional |
| extol | praise; glorify; laud |
| fastidious | difficult to please; displaying careful and meticulous attention to detail |
| frivolity | lack of seriousness |
| gravity | seriousness |
| homogeneous | of the same kind |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| legacy | a gift made by a will; something received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past |
| mundane | worldly as opposed to spiritual; ordinary |
| nurture | bring up; feed; educate |
| opaque | dark; not transparent |
| pacifist | one opposed to force; antimilitarist |
| reticence | reserve; uncommunicativeness |
| surreptitious | secret |
| trepidation | fear; trembling agitation |
| unobtrusive | inconspicuous; not blatant |
| vacillation | fluctuation; wavering |
| apathy | lack of caring; indifference |
| bequeath | leave to someone by a will; hand down |
| condone | overlook; forgive |
| diminution | lessening; reduction in size |
| ephemeral | short-lived; fleeting |
| fervor | glowing ardor (passion) |
| guile | deceit; duplicity |
| heresy | opinion contrary to popular belief |
| indict | charge |
| laconic | brief; concise; terse |
| meticulous | excessively careful |
| nullify | make invalid |
| ostentatious | showy; pretentious |
| pragmatic | practical; concerned with causes and effects or with needs and results rather than ideas or theories |
| recluse | hermit |
| savory | tasty; pleasing, attractive, or agreeable |
| terse | concise; abrupt; pithy; laconic |
| virulent | extremely poisonous or injurious |
| animosity | active enmity (hatred) |
| blasphemy | cursing; irreverence; sacrilege |
| coercion | use of force to get someone's compliance |
| despot | tyrant; harsh, authoritarian ruler |
| esoteric | known only to the chosen few |
| flagrant | shocking; extremely or deliberately conspicuous |
| garbled | mixed up |
| haughtiness | pride; arrogance |
| innocuous | harmless |
| lucid | easily understood |
| magnanimous | generous |
| oblivion | forgetfulness |
| peripheral | marginal; outer |
| rectify | correct |
| sanction | approve; ratify |
| virtuoso | highly skilled artist |
| antithesis | contrast; direct opposite of or to |
| brevity | conciseness |
| censure | blame; criticize |
| delineate | portray |
| enervate | weaken; debilitate |
| hypocritical | pretending to be virtuous; deceiving |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act; weak |
| precocious | advanced in development |
| prolific | abundantly fruitful |
| rebuff | snub; beat back |
| stoic | person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain |
| stupefy | make numb; stun; amaze |
| austerity | sternness; severity; lack of luxuries |
| astute | wise; shrewd |
| credulity | belief on slight evidence; gullibility |
| daunt | intimidate |
| emaciated | thin and wasted |
| ingenuous | naive; young; unsophisticated |
| mitigate | appease; moderate; make or become less severe or intense |
| predilection | partiality; preference |
| renounce | abandon |
| superfluous | excessive; overabundant; unnecessary |
| turbulence | state of violent agitation |
| altruistic | unselfishly generous; concerned for others |
| atrophy | wasting away |
| cryptic | mysterious; puzzling; secret |
| depravity | corruption; wickedness |
| exacerbate | worsen; embitter |
| exonerate | acquit; exculpate; clear of blame |
| indolent | lazy |
| insipid | tasteless; dull (uninteresting) |
| lethargic | drowsy; sluggish |
| piety | religious devotion; godliness |
| perfunctory | superficial; not thorough |
| preclude | make impossible; eliminate |
| reprehensible | deserving blame |
| slough | cast off; shed |
| venerate | revere; regard with great respect |
| acquiesce | assent; agree passively |
| capricious | fickle; impulsive; unpredictable; incalculable |
| despondent | depressed; gloomy |
| enigma | puzzle |
| incongruous | not fitting; absurd |
| ponderous | weighty; unwieldy |
| servile | slavish; cringing |
| vilify | slander |
| admonish | warn; reprove |
| conciliatory | soothing; reconciling |
| disparity | condition of inequality; difference |
| engender | cause; produce |
| eclectic | selective in choosing from a variety of sources |
| infamous | notoriously bad |
| proximity | nearness |
| refute | disprove |
| satirical | mocking |
| anarchist | person who rebels against the established order |
| criterion | standard used in judging |
| disseminate | scatter (like seeds) |
| extricate | free; disentangle |
| incorrigible | uncorrectable |
| profane | violate; desecrate |
| spendthrift | someone who wastes money |
| advocate | urge; plead for |
| corroborate | confirm |
| debilitate | weaken; enfeeble; enervate |
| eloquence | expressiveness; persuasive speech |
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