Word Wealth Unit 7
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75 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acute | sharp, severe, perceptive |
| discernment | clear seeing |
| astuteness | shrewdness or mental sharpness |
| wiliness | cunning |
| agile | nimble, quick, and skillful |
| nimble | quick, alert, and deft of mind or body |
| supple | flexible, yielding in mind or body, quick to respond and adapt |
| erratic | irregular, wandering, having no fized course; large rock deposited by a glacier |
| errare | to wander |
| err | to wander from the path of virtue, duty, or truth |
| knight-errant | wandering night |
| erroneous | wrong, deviant, or mistaken |
| aberration | word for mental derangement, or for a deviation or error in scientific observation |
| exorbitant | excessive, unreasonalbe (in what one asks) |
| extravagant | lavish |
| inordinate | beyond reason, without restraint |
| immoderate | not sufficiently restrained |
| exultant | joyful, jubilant |
| jubilation | wholehearted rejoicing and is thus more vociferous then exultation |
| jubilee | clelbration, a time or occasion of rejoicing |
| jocund | cheerful and gay but not quite exultant |
| implicit | unquestioning, implied |
| explicit | clearly stated |
| inane | senseless, empty |
| inert | inactive or lifeless |
| passive | unwilling to act or lead (always wants someone else to take initiative) |
| indolent or slothful | lazy and thus inactive |
| dormant | temporary condition of inactivity |
| listless | indifferent, uninterested, languid |
| lethargy | drowsiness or sluggishness from some physical cause |
| torpor | sluggishness due to a cause such as the weather |
| stupor | deadened state of mind |
| inferior | low(er) in place or quality |
| ersatz | substitute, usually inferior |
| infernal | hellish, fiendish |
| diabolic | devilish, fit only for, or devised by, a devil |
| execrable | bad, ugly, hellish-worthy of curses |
| execrations | curses |
| fugitive | one who flees, a runaway |
| refugee | one who flees from home to escape some human or natural danger |
| elusiveness | quality that makes a fugitive hard to catch |
| evasiveness | skill in dodging something, usually by the use of cunning (abstract sense-verble or situation avioding) |
| indignation | justifiable anger |
| pique | mildest form of anger |
| vexation | strong annoyance, milder then anger |
| resentment | restrained, slow-burning anger |
| exasperation | intense irritation, often violent |
| wrath | rage, fury, intense anger |
| animosity | strong hostility, usually personal |
| insolence | insulting behavior, impudence |
| impudence | rash, bold, or insolent in a self-superior way |
| brusque | abrupt, blunt, curt |
| obeisance | a boy or curtsy, respect |
| curtsy | woman's dipping of the body |
| genuflection | knee-bending worship |
| salaam | middle-east bowing head |
| kow-tow | chinese obeisance |
| repose | rest, quiet |
| repository | place of storage for objects, ideas, or materials (cultural) |
| retinue | a group of attendants |
| cortege | procession of followers or attendants |
| convoy | protecting escort at sea or a group of ships being escorted |
| sanction | approval, authorization |
| warrant | official approval or order by a government agency for an expenditure |
| dispensation | approval by the church for some exception or varaition from its rules or laws |
| indulgence | enjoyment, satisfaction or leniency |
| condonation | approval of something questionalbe by seeming to overlook it |
| strategy | skill in maneuvering or planning |
| strategy | methods and plans in the largest sense |
| tactics | specific devices and operations |
| succor | aid, help |
| tyranny | oppressive or unjust government |
| autocrat | tyrannical person who may dominate a schoolroom, home, business, or nation |
| dictator | tyrant or absolute ruler who ordinarily seizxes power and does ot troansmit it to a successor in the family line |
| despot | tyrant belonging more likely to a regular line of succession |
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