Group 3 Vocabulay Flashcards
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238651801 | Consecration | A solemn commitment of your life or your time to a service or a goal. | 0 | |
238651802 | Temporize | Avoid making a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time. | 1 | |
238651803 | Steadfastness | Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty. | 2 | |
238651804 | Reverential | Respectful; deferential. | 3 | |
238651805 | Symbiotic | Used of organisms (especially of different species) living together but not necessarily in a relationship beneficial to each other. | 4 | |
238651806 | Rhetoric | Effective or persuasive speaking and/or writing. | 5 | |
238651807 | Presumptive | Having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance. | 6 | |
238651808 | Legitimate | Conforming to the law or rules; legal, lawful, just, etc. | 7 | |
238651809 | Intermittent | Stopping and starting at irregular intervals; not steady. | 8 | |
238651810 | Futile | Producing no result or effect; pointless, vain. Incapable of producing any useful results. | 9 | |
238651811 | Eulogy | A formal speech praising a person who has died. | 10 | |
238651812 | Cursory | Hasty, not thorough or detailed; shallow and superficial. | 11 | |
238651813 | Animosity | Strong hostility; bitter dislike. | 12 | |
238651814 | Revisionists | People who revise; anti-revolutionaries. | 13 | |
238651815 | Paradoxically | Counter to what one would think; contradictory statement that might be true. | 14 | |
238651816 | Panacea | Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; heal-all or cure-all remedy that can cure any disease, difficulty, etc. | 15 | |
238651817 | Levity | A lack of seriousness or earnestness, especially about things that should be treated with respect; buoyancy, lightness in weight, humor; inappropriate lack of respect. | 16 | |
238651818 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor that is not meant to be taken literally; overstatement. | 17 | |
238651819 | Fervent | Characterized by intense emotion; having or displaying a passionate intensity. | 18 | |
238651820 | Coddled | Treat in an indulgent or overprotective way. | 19 |