Flashcards: Bowyer 20
About these flashcards
Created by:
kasielasserre1 on January 24, 2011
Log in to favorite or report as inappropriate.All 40 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 lissome | easily flexed, limber agile |
| lithe | moving and bending with ease, graceful |
| litigation | lawsuit |
| loquacious | talkative, someone who is known for their loquocity |
| lucid | clear and easily understood |
| ludicrous | laughable, ridiculous |
| lugubrious | sorrowful, mournful |
| luminary | bright object; celebrity; source of inspiration |
| lurid | harshly shocking, sensational; glowing |
| luxuriance | elegance, lavishness |
| machination | plot or scheme |
| maelstrom | whirlpool; termoil; agitated state of mind |
| magnanimous | generous, noble in spirit |
| maladroit | clumsy, tactless |
| malapropism | humerous misuse of a word |
| malediction | curse |
| malefactor | evildoer; culprit |
| malinger | to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
| malodorous | foul smelling |
| manifold | diverse, varied, comprised of many parts |
| mannered | artificial, stilted in character |
| mar | to damage, deface; spoil |
| maritime | relating to the sea or sailing |
| martial | warlike, pretaining to the military |
| martinet | strict disciplinarian; one who rigidly follows rules |
| masochist | one who enjoys pain or humiliation |
| matriculate | to enroll as a member of college or university |
| matrilineal | tracing ancestory through the mother's line rather than the father's |
| maudlin | overly sentimental |
| mawkish | sickenly sentimental |
| megalith | a huge stone used in prehistoric structures |
| megalomania | mental state with dillusions of weath and power |
| mendacious | dishonest |
| mendicant | begger |
| mercurial | quick, shroud, and unpredictable |
| meretricious | gaudy, falsely attractive |
| metaphor | figure of speech comparing two different things |
| metronome | time keeping device used in music |
| microcosm | tiny system used as analogy for a larger system |
| militate | operate against, work against (countered) |
Completed “Learn” mode
mcclainal, scott904, katiebug2013, rachelr17, massam, kasielasserre1, cole123w