LAE Vocabulary Flash Cards 300 - 433
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LAE VOCABULARY FLASH CARDS
PACIFIC
• MEANING• Tending to lessen conflict• Reflecting to use force as an instrument of policy• Having a soothing appearance or effect
• SYNONYM• Appeasing, conciliating, conciliatory, disarming
• ANTONYM• antagonizing
PALLID
• MEANING• Deficient in color• Lacking sparkle or liveliness
• SYNONYM• Ashen, ashy, blanched, cadaverous
• ANTONYM• Blooming, florid, flush, full-blooded
PALPABLE
• MEANING• Capable of being touched or felt• Easily perceptible• Easily perceptible by the mind
• SYNONYM• Appreciable, apprehensible, detectable
• ANTONYM• Impalpable, imperceptible, inappreciable
PANDEMONIUM
• MEANING• A very noisy place• Wild uproar or noise
• SYNONYM• noise
• ANTONYM
PARADIGM
• MEANING• One that serves as a pattern or model
• SYNONYM• Epitome, prototype, image
• ANTONYM
PARADOX
• MEANING• A seemingly contradictory statement that may
nonetheless be true
• SYNONYM• Contradiction, mystery, puzzle, ambiguity
• ANTONYM
PARAGON
• MEANING• A model of excellence or perfection
• SYNONYM• Beau, ideal, classic, eidolon, exemplar
• ANTONYM
PARRY
• MEANING• To ward of a weapon or blow• To evade or turn aside something
• SYNONYM• Deflect, block, evade
• ANTONYM
PARSIMONY
• MEANING• The quality of being careful with money or resources• The quality or state of being stingy
• SYNONYM• Cheapness, cheeseparing, closeness
• ANTONYM• Diseconomy, wastefulness
PEDANTIC
• MEANING• Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
especially its trivial aspects
• SYNONYM• Donnish, academic
• ANTONYM
PEER
• MEANING• One that is of equal standing with another: equal• Especially one belonging to the same societal group
especially based on age, grade, or status
• SYNONYM• Grandee, cord, milord, nobleman, gentleman
• ANTONYM
PERIPHERAL
• MEANING• Of, relating to, involving or forming a periphery or surface
part
• SYNONYM• Accessorial, accessory, appurtenant, auxiliary
• ANTONYM• Chief, main, principal
PLACATE
• MEANING• To soothe or mollify especially by concessions: appease
• SYNONYM• Pacify, gentle, gruntle
• ANTONYM
PIED
• MEANING• Having two or more colors in a pattern of patches or
spots• Piebald • Wearing pied clothing
• SYNONYM• Multi-color, piebald, vary-colored
• ANTONYM
PIGMENT
• MEANING• A substance that imparts black or white or a color to
other materials
• SYNONYM• Color, colorant, coloring
• ANTONYM
PIQUANT
• MEANING• Agreeably stimulating to the palate, especially: spicy• Engagingly provocate• Also: having a lively arch charm
• SYNONYM• Pert, poignant, pungent, salty
• ANTONYM• Insipid, zestless
PIQUE
• MEANING• A transient feeling of wounded vanity: resentment
• SYNONYM• Dudgeon, huff, miff, offense
• ANTONYM
PLACID
• MEANING• Serenely free of interruption or disturbance
• SYNONYM• Collected, composed, cool
• ANTONYM• Agitated, discomposed, disturbed
PLASTICITY
• MEANING• The quality or state of being plastic• The ability to retain shape attained by pressure
deformation
• SYNONYM• Malleability
• ANTONYM
PLATITUDE
• MEANING• The quality or state of being dull or insipid
• SYNONYM• Banality, bromide, chestnut
• ANTONYM
PLETHORA
• MEANING• A bodily condition characterized by an excess of blood
marked by turgescence and a florid complexion
• SYNONYM• Abundance, cornucopia, feast
• ANTONYM• Deficiency, inadequacy, undersupply
PLUCKY
• MEANING• Having or showing courage in the face of difficulties,
danger, etc.
• SYNONYM• Brave, spirited, daring, bold
• ANTONYM• Yellow, afraid, scared
PLUMMET
• MEANING• Drop sharply
• SYNONYM• Fall, crash, nose-drive
• ANTONYM
PONTIFICAL
• MEANING• The vestments and other insignia of a pontiff; esp. a
bishop
• SYNONYM• Doctrine, opimonated, dogmatic
• ANTONYM• Latitudinarian, undoctrine
POROUS
• MEANING• Capable of being penetrated
• SYNONYM• Passable, permeable
• ANTONYM• Impassable, impervious, nonporous
PRATE
• MEANING• Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
• SYNONYM• Blether, prattle, yack
• ANTONYM
PUMMEL
• MEANING• Strike, usually with the fist
• SYNONYM• Beat, punch, pound
• ANTONYM
PUNGENT
• MEANING• Strong and sharp
• SYNONYM• Strong, acrid
• ANTONYM• Moderate, dull, mild, bland
PRATTLE
• MEANING• To utter or make meaningless sounds suggestive of the
chatter of children
• SYNONYM• Babble, jabber
• ANTONYM
PRECEDENT
• MEANING• Prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance
• SYNONYM• Antecedent, foregoing
• ANTONYM• Ensuing, succeeding
PRECIPITATE
• MEANING• To move or act with violent or unwise speed
• SYNONYM• Cursory, overhasty
• ANTONYM• Deliberate, unhurried
PRECURSOR
• MEANING• One that precedes and indicates the approach of another
• SYNONYM• Foregoer, forerunner
• ANTONYM• Descendant
PREDESTINE
• MEANING• To destine, decree, determine, appoint, or settle
beforehand
• SYNONYM
• ANTONYM
PRESCIENCE
• MEANING• Human anticipation of the course of events
• SYNONYM• Foreknowledge, foresight
• ANTONYM• Improvidence, myopia
PREVARICATE
• MEANING• To deviate from the truth
• SYNONYM• Equivocate, lie
• ANTONYM
PRISTINE
• MEANING• Beginning to the earliest period or state
• SYNONYM• Brand-new, original
• ANTONYM• State, timeworn
PROCLIVITY
• MEANING• An inclination or predisposition toward something
• SYNONYM• Affection, affinity
• ANTONYM• Abomination, loathing
PRODIGAL
• MEANING• Characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure
• SYNONYM• Extravagant, wasteful
• ANTONYM• Conserving, economical
PREVALENT
• MEANING• Generally or widely accepted, practiced or favored
• SYNONYM• Conventional, customary
• ANTONYM• Nonstandard, unusual
PROBITY
• MEANING• Adherence to the highest principles and ideas
• SYNONYM• Decency, righteousness
• ANTONYM• Immorality, villainy
PRODIGY
• MEANING• An extraordinary, marvelous, or unusual
accomplishment, deed or event
• SYNONYM• Marvel, splendor
• ANTONYM• Dullness
PROFLIGATE
• MEANING• Wildly extravagant• Completely given up to dissipation
• SYNONYM• Squandering, wasteful
• ANTONYM• Conserving, frugal
PROFOUND
• MEANING• Having intellectual depth and insight
• SYNONYM• Abstruse, deep
• ANTONYM• Shallow, superficial
PROFUSE
• MEANING• Exhibiting great abundance; pouring forth liberally
• SYNONYM• Copious, lavish
• ANTONYM• Dribbling, trickling
PROLIFERATE
• MEANING• To grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or
offspring
• SYNONYM• Accelerate, accumulate
• ANTONYM• Decrease, diminish
PROLOGUE
• MEANING• A speech often in verse addressed to the audience by an
actor at the beginning of a play
• SYNONYM• Preliminary, prelude
• ANTONYM• Epilogue
PRONE
• MEANING• Having a tendency or inclination
• SYNONYM• Apt, given
• ANTONYM• Supine
PROPENSITY
• MEANING• An often intense natural inclination or preference
• SYNONYM• Aptness, proneness
• ANTONYM• Improper, inapplicable
PROPRIETY
• MEANING• Conformity to what is socially acceptable in conduct or
speech
• SYNONYM• Decorum, decency
• ANTONYM• Inappropriateness, indelicateness
PROSCRIBE
• MEANING• To publish the name of as condemned to death with the
property of the condemned forfeited to the state
• SYNONYM• Prohibit, forbid
• ANTONYM
PROVOCATIVE
• MEANING• Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate
• SYNONYM• Charged, stimulating
• ANTONYM• Non-inflammatory
PIOUS
• MEANING• Marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to
divine worship• Marked by conspicuous religiosity• Sacred / devotional as distinct from the profane or secular:
religious• Showing loyal reverence for a person / thing
• SYNONYM• Constant, dedicated, devoted, devout, fast, good, royal,
staunch, steady, steadfast
• ANTONYM• Disloyal, fairness, false, fickle, inconstant, perfidious,
recreant, untrue
PHLEGMATIC
• MEANING• Resembling, consisting of, or producing he humor phlegm• Having or showing a slow and stolid temperament
• SYNONYM• Impassive
• ANTONYM
PHENOMENON
• MEANING• Observable fact or event• An object or aspect known through the senses rather
than by thought or intuition • A temporal / spatiotemporal object of sensory experience
as distinguished from a noumenon• A fact or event of scientific interest susceptible to
scientific description and explanation
• SYNONYM• Caution, flash, marvel, miracle, potent, prodigy,
sensation
• ANTONYM
PERVASIVE
• MEANING• Existing or spreading through every part of something
• SYNONYM
• ANTONYM
PERUSE
• MEANING• Examine / consider with attention and in detail: study• To look over or through in a casual or cursory manner• Read; esp. to read over in an attentive / leisure manner
• SYNONYM
• ANTONYM
PERTINENT
• MEANING• Having clear decisive relevance to the matter at hand
• SYNONYM• relevant
• ANTONYM
PERTURB
• MEANING• To cause to be worried / upset: disquiet• To throw into confusion: disorder• To cause to experience a perturbation
• SYNONYM
• ANTONYM
PERSPICACIOUS
• MEANING• Acute mental vision or discernment: keen
• SYNONYM• shrewd
• ANTONYM
PERMEABLE
• MEANING• Capable of being permeated: penetrable• Esp. having pores or openings that permit liquids or
gasses to pass through
• SYNONYM• Passable, penetrable, pervious, porous
• ANTONYM• Impassable, impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, non
porous
OBSEQUIOUS
• MEANING• Marked by or exhibiting an attentiveness
• SYNONYM• subservient
• ANTONYM
OBLIVIOUS
• MEANING• Lacking remembrance, memory, or mindful attention• Lacking active conscious knowledge or awareness
• SYNONYM• Clueless, innocent, insensible, ignorant, unaware,
unconscious
• ANTONYM• Acquainted, aware, conscious, conversant, grounded,
informed
OBSCURE
• MEANING• Dark, dim• Not clearly seen or easily distinguished• Relatively unknown / not prominent or famous
• SYNONYM• Ambiguous, cryptic, deep, elliptical, enigmatic,
mysterious
• ANTONYM• Accessible, clear, non-ambiguous, obvious, plain,
unequivocal
OBSOLETE
• MEANING• No longer in use or no longer useful• If a kind or style no longer current
• SYNONYM• Dated, demoded, fossilized, medieval
• ANTONYM
OCCLUDE
• MEANING• To close up or block off• To come into contact with cusps of the opposing teeth
fitting together
• SYNONYM• Block, choke, clot, congest, clam
• ANTONYM• Clear, free, open, unblock, unplug
OBTUSE
• MEANING• Not painted• Lacking sharpness or quickness or sensibility or intellect• Difficult to comprehend: not clear or precise in thought or
expression
• SYNONYM• Dull, blunted
• ANTONYM• Cutting, edged, ground, keen, sharp
OBSTINATE
• MEANING• Perversely adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course in
spite of reason, arguments or persuasion• Not easily remedied or removed
• SYNONYM• Bull headed, hard, hard headed, immovable,
inconvincible, inflexible
• ANTONYM• Agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, flexible,
pliable
NEOPHYTE
• MEANING• a new convert• beginner
• SYNONYM• Convert, proselyte
• ANTONYM• Old hand, vet, veteran
NEXUS
• MEANING• A casual link• A connected group or series
• SYNONYM• Catena, catenation, concatenation, consecution
• ANTONYM
NOCTURNAL
• MEANING• Of, relating to, or occurring in the night• Active at night
• SYNONYM• Night, nightly
• ANTONYM• Daily, diurnal
NOVICE
• MEANING• A person admitted to probationary membership in a
religious community
• SYNONYM• Abecedarian, apprentice, babe, colt, cub
• ANTONYM• Old hand, old timer, vet
NOXIOUS
• MEANING• Physically harmful or destructive to living beings• Constituting a harmful influence on man’s behavior
• SYNONYM• Insalubrious, noisome, unhealthy, sickly
• ANTONYM• Healthful, healthy
NUANCE
• MEANING• A subtle distinction or variation• A subtle quality: nicety• Sensibility to, awareness of, or ability to express delicate
shadings
• SYNONYM• ANTONYM
NUCLEATE
• MEANING• To form into a nucleus: cluster• To act as a nucleus for • To supply nuclei to
• SYNONYM
• ANTONYM
NUGATORY
• MEANING• To little or no consequence• Having no force
• SYNONYM• Bad, inoperative, invalid, nonbinding, non-valid, null, void
• ANTONYM• Binding, good, valid
NULLIFY
• MEANING• To make null• Esp. to make legally null and void• To make of no value or consequence
• SYNONYM• Negate, annul, abrogate, invalidate
• ANTONYM
OBDURATE
• MEANING• Stubbornly persistent in wrong doing• Hardened in feelings• Resistant to persuasion or softening influences
• SYNONYM• Affectless, callous, cold-blooded, compassionless
• ANTONYM• Charitable. Compassionate, humane, hard hearted
OBJECTIVE
• MEANING• Relating to or existing as an object of thought without
consideration of independent existence• Condition in the realm of experience independent of
individual thought and perceptible by all observers
• SYNONYM• Existential, experiential, experimental, empirical,
observational
• ANTONYM• Non-empirical, theoretical, unempirical