English Test Vocab Flashcards
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- Invoke
- To call upon
- Confound
- To confuse / to prove false
- Impetuous
- Impulsive / Done quickly without care.
- Guile
- Trickery
- Impious
- Not respectful of (not pious)
- Zenith
- Apex, peak, highest point
- Jocund
- Cheerful
- Tumultuous
- Turbulent, disruptive uproar
- Venial
- Forgivable, excusable
- Harbinger
- Indication or precursor
- Imp
- Small Mischievous Devil/Spirit
- Redound
-
come back upon; rebound on.
For example, "may his sin redound upon his head" - Ply
- To work with (esp. with craftsman's actions)
- Affront
- Hostile confrontation; Action or comment that causes outrage.
- Sapient
- Possessing wisdom
- Pent
- Confined (another term for pent-up)
- Credulous
- Believable
- Concupiscence
- Strong Sexual Desire
- Impute
- Attribute; Represent as being done
- Facile
- Easy (tip to remember: Facile is a Facile word to remember)
- Inure
- Accustom to something unpleasant
- Poignant
- Nostalgic, evoking keen reminders of the past with regret.
- Abstruse
- Difficult to understand
- Precept
- General rule of behavior or thought
- Diffident
- Modest; lacking self-confidence.
- Salubrious
- Healthy
- Obdurate
- Stubborn
- Ignominy
- Shame or Disgrace
- Perdition
- Damnation
- Efface
- Erase
- Precipitous
- Steep
- Slake
- Satisfy or quench
- Exhortations
- An address urging someone to do something
- Scion
- Descendant
- Abject
- Wretched (tip for remembering: "Abject Reject")
- Consummation
- End; The point of completion.
- Sagacity
- Wisdom
- Respite
- Short period of rest/vacation before something unpleasant.
- Concede
- Admit; Confess as true
- Abhorred
- Disgusting or wretched
- Guise
- Appearance of something on the surface; Costome
- Sedulous
- Showing dedication
- Expedite
- Speed up the process of something
- Sophism
- A deceptive argument that sounds reasonable but is false
- Mutable
- Changeable
- Precarious
- Dangerous or unstable position
- Torpor
- Inactivity (Mental OR Physical)
- Erroneous
- Wrong or Incorrect
- Consternation
- Frustration
- Acme
- Apex, Peak, Highest Point, zenith
- Gibe
- Taunt or mocking remark