Lessons 21 - 22 -- Flashcards

Flashcards

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to use ambiguous or unclear expressions, usually to avoid commitment or in order to misleadequivocateaudio_icon.gif
1. unnecessary; 2. being more than is sufficient or required

superfluousaudio_icon.gif
two-sidedbilateralaudio_icon.gif
one-sideunilateralaudio_icon.gif
cautiouscircumspectaudio_icon.gif
1. having the same measure; 2. corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degreecommensurateaudio_icon.gif
evil intentmalevolenceaudio_icon.gif
beginnerneophyteaudio_icon.gif
people-hatermisanthropist
warlikebellicoseaudio_icon.gif
Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomenaanthropomorphicaudio_icon.gif
easily notices and makes much of trivial faults or defects; faultfinding; difficult to please.captiousaudio_icon.gif
new wordneologismaudio_icon.gif
a cursemaledictionaudio_icon.gif
Skeptical; disbelievingincredulousaudio_icon.gif
all-knowingomniscientaudio_icon.gif
obsession with one thingmonomaniaaudio_icon.gif
1. false; 2. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually fallaciousspeciousaudio_icon.gif
To express strong disapproval of; to denounceexcoriateaudio_icon.gif
the original or model on which something is based or formedprototypeaudio_icon.gif
fear of foreignersxenophobiaaudio_icon.gif
blessing; an expression of good wishesbenedictionaudio_icon.gif
lacking definite form; having no specific shape; formless, shapelessamorphousaudio_icon.gif
superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc.; bulkpreponderanceaudio_icon.gif
great-minded; courageously noble in mind and heartmagnanimousaudio_icon.gif
to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appeasemollifyaudio_icon.gif
fish scientistichthyologistaudio_icon.gif
able to speak or write several languages; multilingualpolyglotaudio_icon.gif
almost completely transparent or translucentdiaphanousaudio_icon.gif
an easy profitable jobsinecureaudio_icon.gif
speech to oneselfsoliloquyaudio_icon.gif
supporteradherentaudio_icon.gif
renounce; to give upabjureaudio_icon.gif
burningcausticaudio_icon.gif
flowing togetherconfluenceaudio_icon.gif
to remove from office or positiondeposeaudio_icon.gif
self-obsessionegomaniaaudio_icon.gif
outrageously bad or reprehensible; blatant, flagrantegregiousaudio_icon.gif
painkilleranalgesicaudio_icon.gif
palm readingchiromancyaudio_icon.gif
government by a fewoligarchyaudio_icon.gif
not easily controlled; stubbornintractableaudio_icon.gif
not compromisingintransigentaudio_icon.gif
treacherous; deceitfulperfidiousaudio_icon.gif
clearly expressed or presented; easy to understandperspicuousaudio_icon.gif
innocent and naiveingenuousaudio_icon.gif
a roundabout expressioncircumlocutionaudio_icon.gif
sociablegregariousaudio_icon.gif
ramblingdiscursiveaudio_icon.gif
bringing sleepsomniferousaudio_icon.gif