Aviva's GRExtravaganza
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72 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 expatiate | to elaborate |
| exagitate | censure severely |
| inure | to toughen, harden; to render used to something by long subjection or exposure |
| parlous | fraught with danger |
| pilloried | to expose to public derision, ridicule, or abuse |
| calumniate | charge falsely or with malicious intent |
| encomium | a formal expression of praise |
| obstreporous | noisy; unruly, disorderly |
| rapacious | excessively greedy and grasping |
| defalcate | embezzle |
| feckless | generally incompetent and ineffectual |
| intemperate | given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors |
| dilettante | an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge |
| recondite | exceeding ordinary knowledge and understanding |
| abnegate | deny or renounce |
| castigate | to scold, rebuke, or harshly criticize |
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| limn | draw; outline; describe |
| asseverate | to aver, allege, assert |
| panegyric | a formal expression of praise |
| elegiac | expressing sorrow often for something past |
| benight | to overcome with mental or moral darkness |
| maladroit | clumsy |
| fatuity | a ludicrous folly |
| inveterate | firmly established, long-standing; habitual |
| arrant | thoroughgoing, out-and-out; shameless, blatant |
| pusillanimous | lacking in courage, strength, resolution |
| meretricious | tastelessly showy |
| sanguine | confidently optimistic and cheerful |
| saturnine | bitter or scornful |
| splenetic | very irritable |
| iniquitous | wicked; immoral; unrighteous; N. iniquity; Ex. den of iniquity |
| diaphanous | very sheer and light |
| dilatory | inclined to waste time and lag behind |
| injudicious | lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion |
| ineluctable | impossible to avoid or evade:"inescapable conclusion" |
| fractious | easily irritated or annoyed |
| virulent | harsh or corrosive in tone |
| surfeit | excess |
| facile | expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively |
| ingenuous | lacking in sophistication or worldliness |
| superannuated | discharged as too old for use or work |
| perspicacious | mentally acute or penetratingly discerning |
| perspicuous | (of language) transparently clear |
| profligate | recklessly wasteful |
| perfidy | betrayal of a trust |
| elegy | a mournful poem |
| jeremiad | a long and mournful complaint |
| philippic | a bitter verbal attack |
| stygian | hellish |
| extirpate | destroy completely, as if down to the roots |
| pulchritude | physical beauty (especially of a woman) |
| punctilious | very careful and exact |
| sentitious | terse; concise; aphoristic |
| unaffected | free of artificiality |
| raffish | cheaply vulgar in appearance or nature; tawdry; disreputable |
| hirsute | hairy |
| impecunious | poor |
| noisome | stinking; putrid |
| vitiate | to weaken, debase, or corrupt; to impair the quality or value of |
| esculent | edible |
| somnolence | inducing sleep |
| periphrasis | a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things |
| nescience | ignorance |
| belletrism | written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content |
| anodyne | a medicine used to relieve pain |
| invidious | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
| salubrious | promoting health |
| deliquesce | melt away in the process of decay |
| byzantine | highly involved or intricate |
| refractory | stubbornly resistant to authority or control |
| lubricious | characterized by lust |
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