Vocabs 4.2

Cards (20)

  • ramshackle
    dilapidated, falling to pieces
  • refectory
    a communal dining hall in a religious, academic or other institution
  • appellation
    title, name
  • atelier
    an artist's studio or workshop
  • obelisk
    tall column, monument
  • apiary
    a place where bees are kept, usually in beehives
  • tribunal
    a court of justice
  • detonation
    a large or powerful explosion
  • commodious
    (of buildings, rooms, etc) large and roomy; spacious
  • colloquy
    a conference, a conversational exchange, a dialogue
  • bourgeois
    middle class, a member of the middle class esp one regarded as being conservative and materialistic
  • amphitheater
    oval-shaped theater
  • arraign
    to bring before a law court to hear and answer charges
  • assent
    agreement, as to a statement, proposal, etc: acceptance
  • demagogue
    an unprincipled politician, leader
  • grimace
    an expression of disgust
  • savant
    a person of profound or extensive learning: learned scholar
  • caricature
    a pictorial, written, or acted representation of a person, which exaggerates his or her characteristic traits for comic effect, exaggerated portrait, cartoon
  • disavowal
    a disowning; repudiation; denial
  • detonation
    explosion