Details Title: 1st 9 weeks cards Description: ughh Total Flash Cards: 34 Created: 10/21/2008 14:02:30		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional English Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Allege Definition to assert without proof, confirmation. claim contend Term Arrant Definition thourghgoing out and out shamless blatant egregerious unmitigated Term badinage Definition light and playful conversation banter persiflage repartee Term Fatuous Definition stupid or foolish in a self satisfied way Term paucity Definition an inadequate quantity scarcity dearth lack Term portend Definition to indicate beforehand that something is about to happen; to give advance warning of Term saturnine Definition of a gloomy or surly disposition cold or sluggish in mood sullen morose Term slough Definition to cast off discard to get rid of somehting objectionable or unnecessary to plod through as if mud a mire a state of depression shed slog Term acclamation Definition a hsout of welcome an overwhelming vote of approval ovation cheering plaudits Term bucolic Definition characteristic of the countryside rural relating to shepards and cowherds pastoral rustic Term caluminate Definition to slander to accuse falsly and maliciously defame libel Term chary Definition extremely caustious hesitant or slow reserved diffident wary skittish Term collusion Definition secret agreement or cooperation conspiracy plot connivance cahoots Term dillettante Definition a dabbler in the arts one who engages in a activity in an amerteurish trifling way superficial Term imperturbable Definition not easily excited emotionally steady Term benign Definition gentle kind forgiving undersatnding having a favorable or beneficial effect not malignant benelovent salutary saubrious harmless Term inure Definition to toughen harden to render used to something by long subjection or exposure accustom acclimate Term obsequious Definition marked by slavish attentivness excessively submissive often for purely self interesed reasons Term obtuse Definition blunt not coming to a point slow or dull in understanding measuring between 90 and 180 degrees not causing a sharp impression stupid dumb thick mild dull-witted Term peremtory Definition having the nature of a command that leaves no opportuntiy for debate denial or refusal offensively self assured dictorial determined resolute high handed unconditional Term rebuff Definition to snub repel drive away a curt rejection a check spurn repulse reject setback Term sporadic Definition occuring at irregular intervals having no set plan or order Term abrogate Definition to repel cancel declare null and void annul revoke Term ambient Definition completely surrounding encompassing Term asperity Definition roughness severity bitterness tartness rigor harshness Term cabal Definition a small group working in secret clique ring gang plot conspiracy Term deprecate Definition to express mild disapproval to belittle deplore frown aupon Term detritus Definition loose bits and pieces of material resulting from disenegration or wearing away fragments that result from distruction debris wreckage ruins rubble Term flaccid Definition limp not firm lacking vogor or effectivness soft flabby Term inexorable Definition inflexible beyond influence relentless unyielding inescapable ineluctable obdurate Term moribund Definition dying on the way out obsolete Term necromancer Definition one who claims to reveal or influence the futur through magic esecially through the dead sorcerer conjurer Term onerous Definition burdensome involving hardship or difficulty oppressive weighty Term winnow Definition to get rid of something unwanted delete ot sift through to obtain what is desired sift strain filter sort