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Details Title: Carter Words Description: Vocabulary Words First Semester Total Flash Cards: 100 Created: 11/17/2005 17:41:50	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term guise Definition n. False or deceiving appearance; pretense Term prolific Definition adj. Producing abundant results Term plausible Definition adj. Apparently trustworthy; Superficially true or reasonable Term hyperactive Definition adj. Overactive Term credulous Definition adj. Too ready to believe Term hypoactive Definition adj. Underactive Term convivial Definition adj. Fond of eating and drinking with friends; jovial; hospitable Term factious Definition adj. Cross and irritable Term genuflect Definition v. To bend the knee; to touch the knee to ground in worship Term credible Definition adj. Believable Term acquiesce Definition v. to agree to Term amulet Definition n. a good luck charm Term bane Definition n. something that destroys or ruins; a curse Term beneficent Definition adj. kind Term caldron Definition n. a large kettle Term candor Definition n. frankness; straightforwardness Term conflagration Definition n. a raging fire Term deprecate Definition v. to disapprove of Term draught Definition n. a drink Term exemplary Definition adj. worthy of imitation Term litigation Definition n. a lawsuit Term magnanimous Definition adj. generous Term multiplicity Definition n. a large number Term salient Definition adj. noticeable, outstanding, important Term pugnacious Definition adj. eager to fight, quarrelsome, belligerent Term rotund Definition adj. rounded Term perdition Definition n. damnation, ruin Term ruminate Definition v. to chew cud, to think Term rabble Definition n. a mob Term penury Definition n. extreme poverty Term sequestered Definition adj- retired and secluded Term taciturn Definition adj - silent, not inclined to talk Term tawdry Definition adj - showy and not in good taste Term upbraid Definition v - to rebuke Term vehemently Definition adv - furiously Term vestige Definition n - a trace Term turbid Definition adj - clouded, muddled Term titillate Definition v - to pleasurably excite, to tickle Term wax Definition v - to gradually increase Term wane Definition v - to gradually decrease Term velocipede Definition n - a child's tricycle Term predilection Definition n - inclination to like or choose something Term retinue Definition n - a group of followers following a distinguished person Term hermetic Definition adj - airtight Term savoir faire Definition n - knowledge of just what to do Term olfactory Definition adj - pertaining to the sense of smell Term monophobia Definition n - fear of being alone Term nouveaux riches Definition n - new money Term malediction Definition n - a curse Term missive Definition n - a letter Term flippant Definition adj - treating a serious matter lightly Term expedite Definition v - to speed up; to make easy Term genre Definition n - kind, style Term cravat Definition n - a necktie Term coup d'etat Definition n - a sudden, violent or illegal overthrow of government Term contrition Definition n - regret for wrongdoing Term bacchanalian Definition adj - jovial or wild with drunkenness Term bearish Definition adj - rough; tending to depress stock prices Term bullish Definition adj - obstinate; tending to cause a rise in stock prices Term appropriate Definition v - to take for oneself Term hoary Definition adj - white or gray with age; ancient Term polyglot Definition n - speaking or composed of several languages Term cursive Definition adj - running or flowing handwriting in which the letters are joined Term cursory Definition adj - running over hastily; superficially done Term contiguous Definition adj - touching; adjoining in contact Term prehensile Definition adj - adapted for seizing or grabbing Term emissary Definition n - person sent on a mission, especially a diplomatic one Term grandiloquent Definition adj - using lofty or pompous words Term interlocuter Definition n - someone who takes part in a conversation; questioner Term pestiferous Definition adj - infected with or bearing disease; pestilential; evil Term penchant Definition n. - an inclination Term culpable Definition adj - deserving blame Term quixotic Definition adj - visionary; idealistic Term perspicacious Definition adj - having insight Term euphuism Definition n - flowering expression Term euphemism Definition n - substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensive Term meretricious Definition adj - gawdy; cheap; in the style of a prostitute Term rancor Definition n - bitter ill will; deep hatred Term saffron Definition n - a deep-yellow color Term respite Definition n - a brief short rest period Term Philistine Definition n. - an uncultured person Term truculent Definition adj. - fierce, cruel, harsh, threatening Term moribund Definition adj. - in the state of dying Term cupidity Definition n. - avarice, greed Term electic Definition adj. - selecting what appears to be best in various doctrines, methods, styles Term anomaly Definition n. - irregularity Term mendacious Definition adj. - lying Term sapient Definition adj. - wise Term lassitude Definition n. - weariness Term lampoon Definition n. - a written satire; v. - to ridicule in writing a person or institution Term flaccid Definition adj. - flabby Term diatribe Definition n. - bitter discord; tyrade; harangue Term lugubrious Definition adj. - mournful; very sad Term banal Definition adj. - commonplace Term ancillary Definition adj. - subordinate; auxillary Term denizen Definition n. - an inhabitant Term temerity Definition n. - boldness; rashness Term obviate Definition v. - to make unnecessary Term vanguard Definition n. - foremost position in an army or fleet; leading position of any field or movement Term recalcitrant Definition adj. - disobedient; resisting authority