vocabulary study list- 2

Cards (74)

  • evocation

    imaginative recreation
  • exacerbate
    to worsen
  • excoriate
    to criticize
  • extemporize
    to improvise
  • fastidious
    hard to please
  • fecund
    producing many new ideas
  • fickle
    changing frequently
  • flippant
    treating things lightly
  • florid
    excessively intricate, red faced
  • flummox
    perplexed
  • furor
    uproar of excitement or anger
  • galvanize
    electrify
  • garrulous
    talkative
  • genial
    friendly
  • geriatric
    relating to old age
  • gerrymander
    to give bias to
  • gestate
    to carry a fetus, to develop
  • glib
    fluent but insincere and shallow
  • glut
    surplus, to supply or fill
  • gregarious
    friendly
  • guile
    cunning intelligence
  • gully
    water-worn ravine
  • halcyon
    peaceful, happy
  • harbinger
    herald, sign, omen
  • haughty
    arrogant, conceited
  • hedonist
    pleasure seeker
  • iconoclast
    critic, sceptic, questioner
  • idiosyncrasy
    a peculiar trait
  • idyllic
    peaceful, happy
  • ignominious
    shameful
  • impecunious
    poor, penniless
  • impetus
    motivation
  • indigent
    poor
  • indomitable
    invincible, unbeatable
  • inexorable
    relentless
  • infernal
    hellish
  • innocuous
    harmless
  • inscrutable
    hard to understand
  • insular
    narrow-minded; isolated
  • interloper
    intruder