Vocabulary

    Cards (96)

    • opulent - luxurious, rich, wealthy
    • affluent - rich
    • miserly - stingy, unwilling to spend money
    • profligate - wasteful, extravagant
    • frugal - careful with money; not wasting resources
    • extravagance - excessive spending or use
    • circumspect - cautious
    • clandestine - secret
    • coerce - making somebody do something by force or threat
    • coherent - intelligible, logically consistent
    • complacency - self satisfied ignorance of danger
    • confidant - a person entrusted with secrets
    • connive - to plot, scheme
    • cumulative - increasing, building upon itself
    • cynical - believes the worst of others, especially that all acts are motivated by selfishness
    • debase - lower the quality or esteem of something
    • decry - criticise openly
    • deferential - showing respect for another's authority
    • demure - modest, quiet
    • deride - scorn, laugh mockingly
    • despot - one who has total power and rules brutally
    • diligent - showing care in doing ones work
    • elated - delighted
    • eloquent - moving, expressive
    • embezzle - steal money by falsifying records
    • empathy - the ability to understand and share the feelings of others, especially those who are suffering
    • enmity - hatred
    • erudite - well-informed, show great knowledge
    • extol - praise, revere
    • fabricate - to make up
    • feral - wild, savage
    • forsake - give up, leave, renounce
    • fractious - troublesome, irritable
    • furtive - sly, secretive, or clandestine
    • gluttony - overindulgence in food or drink
    • gratuitous - uncalled for
    • haughty - disdainfully proud
    • hypocrisy - pretending to believe what one doesn't
    • impeccable - flawless, exemplary
    • impertinent - rude, insolent
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