English Vocab Flashcards

1. working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner

1. Lacking flavor or zest, vapid

1. Blithely unconcerned

1. Hatred of women

1. Hatred of mankind

1. to make or become less in force or intensity

1. self-important, pretentious, stuck up (think: full of pomp)

1. and indication of something about to occur, something amazing or marvelous

after death

1. concerned with facts or actual events

1. to make impossible, to prevent

1. hazardous, verging on indecent

1. characteristic of or resulting from old age (deteriorating mentally and physically)

terse and energetic in expression, pithy

1. gloomy, pertaining to the grave

a scene or condition in complete ruin (derived from ME slaughterhouse)

1. to take on the appearance or form of, to pretend, feign

1. to excite pleasurably (usually in a small way)

1. deprived of the power of feeling or motion, dormant

poisonous

1. to reprove sharply, to reproach

the quality of being changeable; vicissitudes – a sudden or unexpected change or shift.

disposed to revenge

1. having or showing a masculine spirit, strength or power

1. a person with masterly skill or technique in any field, esp. music