English

Cards (192)

  • embellishing
    decorating; ornamenting
  • enhancement
    an improvement in quality, value, or extent
  • minutiae
    small or relatively unimportant details
  • mirage
    something that falsely appears to be real
  • poseur
    a person who assumes attitudes or manners merely for their effect upon others
  • predilection
    a preconceived liking
  • proclivity
    a strong natural liking for something that is usually bad
  • pulchritude
    physical beauty
  • external
    outwardly visible
  • elixir
    a supposed remedy
  • ennui
    weariness and dissatisfaction resulting from inactivity or lack of interest; boredom
  • entreating
    asking earnestly; begging
  • fracas
    a noisy fight or loud quarrel
  • enervate
    to deprive of strength, force
  • expunge
    to erase or remove completely; delete
  • ebullient
    overflowing with enthusiasm, high spirits, etc.; exuberant
  • frenzied
    wild or frantic
  • imperturbable
    that cannot be disconcerted, disturbed, excited
  • effervescence

    vivacity and enthusiasm
  • infinitesimal
    infinitely small
  • inimitable
    that cannot be imitated or matched
  • iniquitous

    wicked; unjust
  • intrepid
    not afraid; bold; fearless; very brave
  • puerile
    childish; silly; immature
  • hodgepodge
    any jumbled mixture; mess
  • insularity
    ignorance of or lack of interest in cultures
  • quietude
    rest; calmness
  • reprobate
    an unprincipled or totally bad person
  • transgression
    breach of a law, duty, etc.; sin
  • emend
    to correct or improve
  • ineffable
    too overwhelming to be expressed or described in words; inexpressible
  • in back of, in between both phrases are incorrect; remove in
  • later
    at a time subsequent to a reference time
  • latter
    denoting the second or second mentioned of two people or things
  • like
    used as a verb or as a preposition
  • as
    a subordinating conjunction; as a preposition, it means in the capacity of
  • as if
    a subordinating conjunction; the same with as though until comparison
  • say
    used for both direct and indirect speech; after say, the indirect object uses "to me/us/you" and usually follows the quoted speech
  • tell
    used for indirect speech; after tell, the indirect object comes immediately after the verb -> there's a specific person
  • assure
    something you do to a person, a group of people, or an animal to remove doubt or anxiety