Vocabulary Flashcards

Vocabulary Flashcards Summary

• Abjure: Formally reject a previously held belief.
• Abrogate: Formally revoke a law or agreement.
• Abstemious: Practice moderation and self-restraint in indulgence.
• Acumen: Display sharp insight or shrewdness in understanding.
• Antebellum: Describes a period occurring before a war, often associated with the Civil War in the U.S.
• Auspicious: Indicates favorable circumstances or good fortune.
• Belie: Present a contradiction to; show an opposite fact.
• Bellicose: Exhibits a willingness to engage in conflict or warfare.
• Bowdlerize: Edit content by removing or altering parts deemed inappropriate.
• Chicanery: Involves deceit through trickery.
• Chromosome: A DNA strand that contains genetic information.
• Churlish: Describes someone with a bad temper or rude demeanor.
• Circumlocution: Use of indirect or roundabout expressions.
• Circumnavigate: Means to travel around something completely.
• Deciduous: Refers to trees that shed leaves in autumn.
• Deleterious: Having a harmful effect on living organisms.
• Diffident: Displays modestly or a lack of self-confidence.
• Enervate: To weaken physically, mentally, or morally.
• Enfranchise: Grant the right to vote or freedom.
• Epiphany: A moment of sudden and profound insight or realization.
• Equinox: A time when day and night are of equal length, occurs twice a year.
• Euro: The official currency used by many European Union countries.
• Evanescent: Tending to disappear quickly or vanish like vapor.
• Expurgate: To censor or remove offensive content.
• Facetious: Intentionally amusing or joking in tone.
• Fatuous: Lacking intelligence; foolish.
• Feckless: Incompetent or ineffective in function.
• Fiduciary: Relates to trust, especially regarding legal trust responsibilities.
• Filibuster: A stalling tactic in legislation involving lengthy speeches.
• Gamete: A mature reproductive cell capable of fusion.
• Gauche: Lacking social grace or tact.
• Gerrymander: Manipulate electoral district boundaries for political advantage.
• Hegemony: Leadership or dominance of one group over others.
• Hemoglobin: A red blood cell protein that carries oxygen.
• Homogeneous: Composed of elements that are all of the same kind.
• Hubris: Excessive pride or self-confidence.
• Hypotenuse: The longest side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
• Impeach: To formally accuse or charge a public official.
• Incognito: Concealed identity to avoid notice.
• Incontrovertible: Undeniably true; certain.
• Inculcate: Instill an idea or habit through persistent instruction.
• Infrastructure: The essential systems and structures that support a society.
• Interpolate: To insert new phrases or sections into text.
• Irony: A situation where expectations differ from reality.
• Jejune: Lacking interest or significance; dull.
• Kinetic: Relates to motion and the forces involved.
• Kowtow: To act in a overly submissive manner.
• Laissez-faire: Economic policy of minimal government interference in business.
• Lexicon: A dictionary or vocabulary of a language or specialized field.
• Loquacious: Talkative; full of trivial conversation.
• Lugubrious: Expressively mournful, often to an exaggerated degree.
• Metamorphosis: A profound change in form or structure.
• Mitosis: Cell division resulting in two identical daughter cells.
• Moiety: A part or portion of a whole, typically in equal shares.
• Nanotechnology: Manipulation of matter on an atomic or molecular scale.
• Nihilism: A rejection of established laws and orders without belief in anything.
• Nomenclature: A system for naming things within a discipline.
• Nonsectarian: Not limited to one sect or group.
• Notarize: To certify a document by a notary public.
• Obsequious: Excessively eager to please or flatter.
• Oligarchy: A government ruled by a small group.
• Omnipotent: Having unlimited power or authority.
• Orthography: The conventional spelling system of a language.
• Oxidize: Combine or become combined with oxygen.
• Parabola: A symmetrical open plane curve formed as an intersection with a cone.
• Paradigm: A typical example or model of something.
• Parameter: A measurable factor that defines a system or sets its conditions.
• Pecuniary: Relating to money.
• Photosynthesis: Process by which plants convert light into chemical energy.
• Plagiarize: To copy someone else's work without proper acknowledgment.
• Plasma: The liquid part of blood in which cells are suspended.
• Polymer: A large molecule made of repeating structural units (monomers).
• Precipitous: Extremely steep or abrupt.
• Quasar: An immensely bright and distant celestial object.
• Quotidian: Pertaining to everyday occurrences or routines.
• Recapitulate: To summarize or reiterate the main points.
• Reciprocal: Mutual or shared between parties.
• Reparation: Compensation for wrong or injury.
• Respiration: The process of breathing, drawing in and expelling air.
• Sanguine: Optimistic or positive, especially in difficult situations.
• Soliloquy: A speech delivered by a character alone on stage, revealing thoughts.
• Subjugate: To conquer or dominate.
• Suffragist: An advocate for voting rights, especially for women.
• Supercilious: Exhibiting an attitude of arrogant superiority.
• Tautology: Repetition of an idea using different words that adds no meaning.
• Taxonomy: A systematic classification of organisms.
• Tectonic: Relating to the Earth's crust and its movements.
• Tempestuous: Characterized by strong and turbulent emotions or behaviors.
• Thermodynamics: The study of energy transformations and conversions.
• Totalitarian: A government exercising absolute power and control.
• Unctuous: Excessively ingratiating or sycophantic; oily in manner.
• Usurp: To take control unlawfully or by force.
• Vacuous: Lacking content; empty.
• Vehement: Showing strong, passionate feelings.
• Vortex: A spiraling mass, especially of air or water, with a low-pressure center.
• Winnow: To separate grain from chaff.
• Wrought: Shaped or molded by physical or cognitive effort.
• Xenophobia: An irrational fear or dislike of foreigners.
• Yeoman: An independent farmer or landowner.
• Ziggurat: A terraced structure in ancient Mesopotamian architecture.