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FD Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Impose | To force upon |
| Contemplate | To think about for some time |
| Agitate | To disturb or trouble |
| Allege | To state something, especially by accusing someone of wrongdoing |
| Deprive | Not allow to have or to take away |
| Conspire | Plan secretly to act illegally; to work together |
| Abolish | To put an end to something |
| Desolate | Empty; alone |
| Afflict | To cause distress |
| Odious | Inspiring hatred or disgust |
| Infer | To conclude something from reasoning |
| Denounce | To criticize something publicly or charge somebody with wrongdoing |
| Conjecture | Guesswork |
| Calamity | Disaster |
| Interpose | Intervene with something |
| Rapture | Overwhelming happiness |
| Incur | Acquire a burden; experience something unpleasant |
| Emancipate | Set somebody free |
| Piety | Religious devotion |
| Insurrection | Rebellion |
| Consummate | Conclude or achieve something |
| Abhor | To disapprove of or reject something very strongly |
| Shun | Deliberately avoid somebody |
| Odium | Hatred or intense dislike for somebody or something |
| Fetter | Restraint |
| Vindicate | Show somebody to be blameless; uphold something |
| Impertinent | Showing a bold or rude lack of respect, especially to a superior |
| Infernal | So extreme, wick, or cruel as to be worthy of hell |
| Humane | Showing the better aspects of the human character, especially kindness and compassion |
| Impose | To force upon |
| Contemplate | To think about for some time |
| Agitate | To disturb or trouble |
| Gall | Disrespectful boldness |
| writhe | To twist or squirm, especially as a result of severe pain |
| Scourge | Something causing misery or death |
| Evince | To indicate something by action or implication |
| Infidel | Someone who does not believe in a major religion |
| Imprudent | Showing no care or judgment |
| Append | To add extra information |
| Blasphemy | Disrespect for god or sacred things |
| Maxim | A short saying that has some proven truth to it |
| Caricature | A comic exaggeration of someone or something |
| Privation | Lacking basic life necessities (food, housing, etc.) |
| Staid | Sober and steady in habits and temperament |
| Languish | To undergo hardship as a result of being deprived of something (attention, independence, freedom) |
| Reprove | To speak to somebody in a way that shows disapproval |
| Redress | To adjust a situation in order to make things fair or equal |
| Libels | The making of false and damaging statements about somebody |
| Servile | Too willing to agree with somebody or to do anything that somebody wants, however demeaning |
| Stint | To skimp in offering, providing or giving something |
| Vestige | A trace or sign of something that is no longer present |
| Pernicious | Causing great harm, destruction, or death |
| Impudence | Extreme disrespect |
| Divest | To take away something from another person, especially status or power |
| Execrate | To feel hatred for somebody or something; to declare someone as worthy of hatred |
| Profligate | Extremely extravagant or wasteful |
| Dissipation | Overindulgence in the pursuit of physical pleasures, or squandering of money |
| Goad | To provoke or incite somebody into action |
| Debase | To reduce to somebody in status, significance, or moral worth |
| Feasible | Capable of being achieved or put into effect |
| Lax | Not strict or careful enough |
| Turbid | Opaque and muddy; confused and muddled |
| Commensurate | Of the same size or extent |
| Scathing | Severely critical |
| Fester | To produce pus due to infection |
| Exculpate | To free somebody from blame or accusation of guilt |
| Misnomer | A wrong or unsuitable name or term for something or somebody |
| Egotistical | Somebody with an exaggerated sense of his or her own importance, especially somebody who tends to speak or write about himself or herself excessively |
| Pharisaical | Acting with hypocrisy, self-righteousness, or obsessiveness with regard to the strict adherence to rules and formalities |
| Discordant | In disagreement or disharmony |
| Imbue | To saturate something with a particular quality |
| Imbibe | To drink something, especially alcohol |
| Ineffable | Unable to be expressed in words |
| Presumptuous | Inconsiderate, disrespectful, or overconfident, especially in doing something when not entitled or qualified to do it |
| Immutable | Not changing or not able to be changed |
| Servile | Too willing to agree with somebody or to do anything that somebody wants, however demeaning |
| Stint | To skimp in offering, providing or giving something |
| Vestige | A trace or sign of something that is no longer present |
| Pernicious | Causing great harm, destruction, or death |
| Impudence | Extreme disrespect |
| Chattel | An item of personal property that is not freehold land and is not untouchable. It is typically movable property, but may also be of interest in property. |
| Perdition | The state of everlasting punishment in hell that sinners endure after death |
| Impropriety | Conduct that is not considered correct, moral, or appropriate in a given context |
| Obdurate | Not easily persuaded or influenced, especially not inclined to feel sympathy or pity |
| Sunder | To separate something into parts, especially by force, or be separated in this way |
| Turbid | Opaque and muddy; confused and muddled |
| Commensurate | Of the same size or extent |
| Scathing | Severely critical |
| Fester | To produce pus due to infection |
| Exculpate | To free somebody from blame or accusation of guilt |
| Misnomer | A wrong or unsuitable name or term for something or somebody |
| Egotistical | Somebody with an exaggerated sense of his or her own importance, especially somebody who tends to speak or write about himself or herself excessively |
| Pharisaical | Acting with hypocrisy, self-righteousness, or obsessiveness with regard to the strict adherence to rules and formalities |
| Cunning | Clever or artful in a way that is intended to deceive |
| Inevitable | Something that is certain to happen |
| Homage | A show of reverence and respect toward somebody |
| Loathe | To dislike somebody or something intensely |
| Sagacity | Profound knowledge and understanding, coupled with foresight and good judgment |
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