Vocabulary 3
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19 terms
Romanian | English |
|---|---|
 Pretentious | trying to appear or sound more important or clever than you are The novel deals with grand themes, but is never heavy or pretentious |
| Autonomy | the right of a group of people to govern itself Demonstrators demanded immediate autonomy for their region. |
| Prolixity (NOT proximity, close) | wordy, drawn out, verbose he author's prolix style has done nothing to encourage sales of the book. |
| Floridity | tinged with red ; too much decoration; A florid complexion; a florid architectural style; florid prose/rhetoric |
| Didactic | intended to teach, especially too eagerly/ determinately a didactic approach to teaching; didactic literature |
| Altruistic; altruism | wanting to help other people, even if disadvantage for yourself I doubt whether her motives for donating the money are altruistic - she's probably looking for publicity. |
| Reticent | unwilling to speak about your thoughts or feelings He is very reticent about his past. |
| Subversion | when someone tries to destroy an established system or government He was found guilty of subversion and imprisoned. |
| Transcendent | greater, better, more important, or going past or above all others Transcendent power/beauty/love |
| Disparate | different in every way; There is a great disparity between rich and poor in many nations. The two cultures were so utterly disparate that it she found it hard to adapt from one to the other. |
| Urbane | especially of a man) confident, comfortable and polite in social situations He was an urbane, kindly and generous man. |
| Amenable | willing to accept or be influenced by a suggestion She might be more amenable to the idea if you explained how much money it would save. |
| Banal | boring, ordinary and not original He just sat there making banal remarks all evening; banal pop songs |
| Benign | old and pleasant; or, growth that won't result in death a benign old lady; a benign tumor |
| Coalesce | Come or grow together to form one thing or system. The process of coalescing |
| Inert | Not or unable to move; unenergetic; uninteresting The narrative is inert and sloppy, as if the author had been writing half-asleep. |
| Deluge | Overflowing of the land by water; overwhelming amount of something Received a deluge of offers; A stream can become a deluge when it rains heavily. |
| Expunge | to strike, delete, remove, obliterate (esp. from ones memory) She has been unable to expunge the details of the accident from her memory. |
| Pseudoscience | theories, not science: Astrology, Phrenology (belief that shape of skull indicates character traits), Homeopathy, and Hydropathy (can cure someone by giving them large amounts of water) are psuedosciences. |
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