 | Term | Definition |
| |
cend, cens |
to burn |
| |
luster, lustr |
to make bright |
| |
fulm, fulg |
lighting, storm |
| |
flagr |
to burn |
| |
incendiary |
(adj) inflaming; provoking heat or anger |
| |
incense |
(v) to infuriate; to make passionately angry |
| |
inflammatory |
(adj) arousing anger or strong emotion |
| |
flamboyant |
(adj) intended to attract attention; showy |
| |
luster |
(n) brilliance; brightness |
| |
illustrious |
(adj) well-known and distinguished |
| |
illustrative |
(adj) descriptive; representative |
| |
fulminate |
(v) to attack with words; denounce |
| |
refulgent |
(adj) brilliantly illuminated; shining |
| |
flagrant |
(adj) noticeably bad or offensive |
| |
conflagration |
(n) a large fire |
| |
semantic |
(adj) having to do with the meaning of works or language |
| |
semiotic |
(adj) of or relating to signs or symbols |
| |
paradigm |
(n) a pattern or model |
| |
phraseology |
(n) the way in which something is expressed; style |
| |
metaphrase |
(n) an exact translation or restatement |
| |
paraphrase |
(n) a summary that is not word-for-word |
| |
demonstrative |
(adj) openly expressive of emotions |
| |
remonstrate |
(v) to protest or object |
| |
ominous |
(adj) menacing; threatening |
| |
abominable |
(adj) loathsome; disagreeable |
| |
abomination |
(n) something disgustingly offensive |
| |
detrimental |
(adj) causing damage or harm; injurious |
| |
contrite |
(adj) feeling regret and sorrow; penitent |
| |
trite |
(adj) boring because of overuse or repetition |
| |
detritus |
(n) debris; junk |
| |
attrition |
(n) a lowering in number |
| |
lenient |
(adj) not strict; generous |
| |
lenitive |
(adj) easing pain or discord |
| |
mollify |
(v) to soothe the feelings of; to appease |
| |
rudiment |
(n) a basic idea or principle |
| |
rudimentary |
(adj) undeveloped; very basic or simple |
| |
implicit |
(adj) implied or understood but not directly expressed |
| |
inexplicable |
(adj) difficult or impossible to explain |
| |
diverge |
(v) to branch out; to go different ways |
| |
converge |
(v) to come together; to gather; to meet |
| |
acclivity |
(n) a climbing slope; a hill |
| |
declivity |
(n) a downward slope; a dip |
| |
proclivity |
(n) a natural tendency towards |
| |
contort |
(v) to twist, wrench, or bend severely out of shape |
| |
distort |
(v) to misshape; misrepresent |
| |
sinuous |
(adj) curving or twisting |
| |
insinuate |
(v) to suggest in an indirect or subtle fashion |
| |
desultory |
(adj) moving or jumping from one thing to another |
| |
resilient |
(adj) able to recover readily; persisitent |
| |
exultant |
(adj) marked by great joy or jubilation |
| |
expendable |
(adj) not necessary; dispensable |
| |
impending |
(adj) about to occur |
| |
append |
(v) to add as a supplement; to attach |
| |
subjective |
(adj) varying according to personal opinion or perspective |
| |
interject |
(v) to insert between other elements |
| |
undulate |
(v) to move in a wavelike fashion; to ripple |
| |
inundate |
(v) to flood |
| |
redound |
(v) to have an effect |
| |
disseminate |
(v) to scatter; to spread |
| |
seminal |
(adj) fundamentally influential; important |
| |
florid |
(v) overly decorated; showy |
| |
flourish |
(v) to thrive; to prosper |
| |
deracinate |
(v) to uproot; to remove from one's homeland |
| |
irradicable |
(adj) impossible to destroy |
| |
eradicate |
(v) to destroy; get rid of |
| |
germinate |
(v) to cause to grow |
| |
germinal |
(adj) occurring in the earliest stage of devlopment |
| |
germane |
(adj) related to a subject or topic; relevant |
| |
decorum |
(n) appropriateness of behavior or conduct |
| |
decorous |
(adj) proper; mannerly |
| |
adorn |
(v) to decorate; heighten the beauty of |
| |
suborn |
(v) to convince someone to lie or commit a crime |
| |
ornate |
(adj) heavily decorated; intricate |
| |
formulaic |
(adj) done according to an overused method; trite |
| |
formality |
(n) something done only for show or ceremony |
| |
formulate |
(v) to come up with; devise |
| |
inordinate |
(adj) too abundant; excessive |
| |
ordain |
(v) to formally order; command |
| |
preordained |
(v) determined in advance |
| |
munificent |
(adj) generous; giving |
| |
remunerate |
(v) to compensate; pay |
| |
communal |
(adj) shared by the people of a community; public |
| |
excommunicate |
(v) to exclude from a membership in a group |
| |
incommunicado |
(adj) unable or not allowed to communicate with others |
| |
appreciable |
(adj) able to be measured or perceived |
| |
appraise |
(v) to evaluate; estimate the quality, amount, size, and other features of |
| |
meritorious |
(adj) deserving reward or praise |
| |
demerit |
(v) a fault or flaw |
| |
meretricious |
(adj) seemingly true, but actually false |
| |
instill |
(v) gradually put into |
| |
distill |
(v) to extract the essence of |
| |
ablution |
(n) a cleansing, especially religious or spiritual |
| |
alluvial |
(adj) deposited by a stream |
| |
lachrymal |
(adj) having to do with tears |
| |
lachrymose |
(adj) teary; oversentimental |
| |
lavish |
(adj) luxuriously abundant; extravagant |
| |
lavish |
(v) to give in abundance; to heap |
| |
riparian |
(adj) having to do with the banks of a body of water |
| |
meander |
(v) to wander; to move without direction |
| |
fluent |
(adj) able to speak smoothly |
| |
fluctuate |
(v) to change irregularly |
| |
crevice |
(n) a small crack |
| |
crevasse |
(n) a large, deep crack; chasm |
| |
fission |
(n) splitting |
| |
fissure |
(n) opening; split |
| |
hiatus |
(n) an interruption in space or time; gap |
| |
orotund |
(adj) deep and full |
| |
orifice |
(n) mouth or opening |
| |
excavate |
(v) to dig up |
| |
cavernous |
(adj) deep and empty, like a cavern |
| |
concave |
(adj) curving inward; hollowed |
| |
sema, semio |
sign |
| |
digm, dict |
a showing, comparision |
| |
phras |
to show, to tell |
| |
monstr |
show, warn |
| |
omin |
sign, warning |
| |
trit |
to rub away, to wear, to crush |
| |
leni |
smooth |
| |
moll |
soft |
| |
rud |
rough |
