Flashcards: vocab 25
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summerrmiller on March 25, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 sybarite | a person devoted to pleasure and luxury |
| sycophant | a self-serving flatterer, yes man |
| syncopation | temporary irregularity in musical rhythm |
| tableau | vivid description, striking incident or scene |
| tacit | silently understood or implied |
| taciturn | uncommunicative not inclined to speak much |
| tactile | relating to sense of touch |
| taint | to spoil or infect; to stain honor |
| tangential | digressing, diverting |
| tantamount | equivalent in value or significance; amounting to |
| tawdry | gaudy, cheap, showy |
| taxonomy | the science of classification |
| tempestuous | stormy, raging, furious |
| tenuous | weak, insubstantial |
| tepid | lukewarm; showing little enthusiasm |
| terminal | concluding, final; fatal |
| terse | concise, brief, free from extra words |
| theocracy | government by priests representing a god |
| timorous | timid, shy, full of apprehension |
| tinge | to color slightly |
| toady | a flatterer, a hanger-on, yes man |
| tome | a book, usually large and academic |
| torpid | lethargic, unable to move; dormant |
| translucent | partially transparent |
| transmute | to change in appearance or shape |
| tremulous | trembling, quivering; fearful and timid |
| trenchant | acute, sharp, incisive, forceful and effective |
| trepidation | fear and anxiety |
| trifling | of slight worth, trivial, insignificant |
| trite | shallow, superficial |
| truncate | to cut off, shorten by cutting |
| tryst | an agreement between lovers to meet, rendezvous ;) |
| trupitude | inherent, vileness, foulness and depravity |