Flashcards: Wordmasters 5th Grade Gold 2010/11
All 50 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 candor | noun, the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech |
| harass | verb, To disturb, worry, to trouble by repeated attacks, annoy, pester |
| luminous | adj., softly bright or radiant, understandable, clear and easy to understand, respendent, gleaming, glimmering |
| proclamation | noun, a formal public statement, public announcement, decree, declaration, assertion, edict |
| thrash | verb, defeat thoroughly in a competition or fight, beat person or animal, toss about or move the body and limbs in an uncontrolled, restless way |
| sonorous | adj., full, deep, or rich in sound; impressive in style;resonant, echoing, booming |
| innuendo | (n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense), insinuation, implication |
| jut | verb,noun, something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form, something that sticks out, overhang, project, extend |
| petty | (adj.) unimportant, trivial; narrow-minded; secondary in rank, minor; small, insignificant |
| tone | noun, verb a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color; distinctive kind of sound; prevailing character; way of speaking; firmness of muscle |
| restrain | verb, to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement, bar, bring under control |
| outlandish | (adj.) strange, freakish, weird, foreign-looking; out-of-the-way, geographically remote; exceeding reasonable limits, bizarre, odd |
| hue | noun, color or shade of color; type or kind in a particular range; shade; tone; tinge; tint; color |
| protrude | verb, (protrusion - noun) to stick out, thrust forth; jut; obtrude; extend beyond |
| tranquil | adj, (tranquility - noun) peaceful, calm; free from commotion, composed; relaxing; quiet; restful; soothing; placid; unflustered; unruffled; laid-back |
| mishap | noun, an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; accident, bad luck; calamity; misfortune;disaster; catastophe; casualty |
| guzzle | v. To swallow greedily or hastily; gulp; to drink something rapidly and in large quanitites; gobble; swig; wolf; consume; devour |
| bizarre | (adj.) extremely strange, unusual, atypical;inexplicable; out of the ordinary; peculiar; odd; wacky |
| gorge | noun, verb overeat or eat immodestly; narrow valley, ravine, canyon; birds food pouch in the throat of a hawk; obstruction in passage |
| prod | V. poke; stir up; urge; poke somebody or something with a finger, elbow, pointed object; incite somebody tot action, encourage to take action |
| grave | noun, a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone);last resting place; end of something; adj. serious, solemn, sober, sedate, staid; verb - to carve, impress deeply - graven |
| vexation | noun, (vex - verb) the act of troubling or annoying someone; irritability; annoyance; displeasure; aggravation; exasperation; bother; irritation |
| garnish | verb, enhance food or drink to add something; embellish or decorate with an ornament; to hold back by law - garnish wages for child support; |
| placid | adj., calm in nature or appearance; tending or appealing to be calm; not easily excited or upset; too easily satisfied; easy going; docile; equable; imperturbable; serene; tranquil |
| menace | noun, possible source of danger or harm; nuisance; a constant source of trouble and annoyance; threatening quality or act, gesture or speeche; threat, danger, hazard, peril, trouble maker, pest |
| vain | adj. - full of self-admiration; conceited, egotistical, overly preoccupied with one's appearance; without result; unsuccessful; fruitless, fuitile, unproductive (N. vanity) |
| caravan | noun - a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file; a group of people traveling together |
| slipshod | adj. - marked by great carelessness; untidy in dress, messy work done, sloppy, haphazard, |
| embellish | (v.) to decorate, adorn, touch up; to improve by adding details; to exaggerate a story |
| abridge | verb - To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles, reduce, shorten, abbreviate, curtail, diminish, contract |
| morose | adj. - having a gloomy or sullen manner; not friendly or sociable, dark, sad, depressing |
| jovial | adj. - jolly; merry; good-humored; happy; jocund; characterized by hearty good natured humor |
| spendthrift | noun - recklessly wasteful; scattergood; someone who spends money prodigally; extravagant; one who spends money foolishly, lavishly, wastefully. Adj. synonyms: prodigal, profligate, recklessly wasteful |
| thrifty | adj. - careful and diligent in the use of resources; mindful of future spending; handle money wisely; penny-wise; economical, frugal, sparing, stinting |
| persnickety | adj: characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; picky; too big for one's breeches, snobby; used colloquially overly conceited or arrogant |
| miserly | adj. - stingy; mean; lacking generosity; greedy; tight |
| stifle | verb - muffle; repress; smother; strangle; dampen; suppress; asphyxiate; choke suffocate; to prevent or inhibit growth, development, progress, or functioning (to stifle curiosity) (noun - joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped corresponds to the human knee) |
| quell | verb - suppress or crush completely; to put down; squelch, stay, appease, crush completely; to put an end to; to quiet; appease; stay; overcome or allay (quell my hunger) |
| pilfer | verb - make off with belongings of others; swipe; abstract; cabbage; filch; hook; lift; nobble; pinch; purloin; snarf; sneak; to steal in small quantities |
| hypocritical | adj. - professing feelings or virtues one does not have; insincere; pretending to virtuous; |
| portal | noun - a grand and imposing entrance (often extended metaphorically); door; gate; entrance; entry; doorway; a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet; a short vein that carries blood into the liver |
| veto | verb - refuse; blackball; disallow; forbid; NOUN: a vote that blocks a decision; the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature) |
| conduit | noun - a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass; acquaduct |
| bar | noun -1. the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction;2. bar room; ginmill; saloon; 3. a counter where you can obtain food or drink 4. a measure as in musical notation 5. a block of solid substance like a bar of soap 5. bar or prevention as in the act of preventing 6. a bar as in a submerged or partly submerged ride in a river or along a shore Verb - exclude, prevent from entering, keep out, barricade, block off, stop, expel, relegate, banish |
| repast | noun - the food served and eaten at one time; meal |
| morsel | noun - a small amount of solid food; small quantity or a piece of something; bit, bite, mouthful, fragment |
| deceive | verb - cause someone to believe an untruth; cozen, delude, lead on, betray, cause someone to believe an untruth; trick; mislead |
| facade | noun - the face or front of a building;a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant; false front; illusion; pretense |
| menagerie | noun - a collection of live animals for study or display; the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition (zoo); collection of wild or unusual animals; group |
| calamity | noun - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; cataclysm; catastrophe; disaster; tragedy; state of affliction; misery |