351670028 | contumacy | n. stubborn resistance to authority. | 0 | |
351670029 | convivial | adj. to be good company, friendly, or agreeable. | 1 | |
351670030 | indomitable | adj. unconquerable, incapable of being subdued. | 2 | |
351670031 | millennium | n. a period of one thousand years; generically speaking it is a period of rectitude and happiness, especially in the indefinite future. | 3 | |
351670032 | emasculate | v. to deprive of virile procreation power; to deprive of masculine vigor, spirit. | 4 | |
351670033 | digress | v. to turn aside, especially from the main subject of attention. | 5 | |
351670034 | kaleidoscope | n. an optical instrument containing bits of colorful glass, beads, etc., held loosely at one end by a rotating tube which when turned shows a continually changing symmetrical form by reflection through the use of mirrors; constantly changing sets of colors. | 6 | |
351670035 | jargon | n. unintelligible and meaningless talk; vocabulary peculiar to a particular trade, profession, group. | 7 | |
351670036 | humor | n. fluid or moisture which during the Middle Ages was believed to be in one's body. | 8 | |
351670037 | phlegmatic | adj. apathy or calmness. | 9 | |
351670038 | melancholy | adj. gloomy state of mind. | 10 | |
351670039 | sanguine | adj. cheerfully optimistic. | 11 | |
351670040 | choleric | extremely irritable or easily angered. | 12 | |
351670041 | aberrant | adj. a departure from a normal or typical course; an abnormal alteration in one's mental state. | 13 | |
351670042 | animosity | n. an active display of ill will or hatred. | 14 | |
351670043 | antemeridian | n. before midday. | 15 | |
351670044 | ecumenical | adj. universal; pertaining to the church worldwide. | 16 | |
351670045 | travail | n. pain or suffering resulting from mental or physical anguish. | 17 | |
351670046 | pernicious | adj. tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly; causing great harm; destructive; ruinous. | 18 | |
351670047 | nostrum | n. a quack remedy or medicine; a cure for all the ills of mankind. | 19 | |
351670048 | epitaph | n. inscriptions found on gravestones in memory of the person buried beneath them. | 20 | |
351670049 | feckless | adj. lacking in purpose or vitality, ineffective, careless, or irresponsible. | 21 | |
351670050 | splenetic | adj. of or pertaining to, connected with, the spleen. | 22 | |
351670051 | pusillanimous | adj. to be lacking in courage or resolution. | 23 |
Vocab Ch. 13-14 Flashcards
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