Week 08

implacable

adjective

1.not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable:

an implacable enemy.

paroxysm

noun

1.any sudden, violent outburst; a fit of violent action or emotion:paroxysms of rage.

2.Pathology. a severe attack or a sudden increase in intensity of a disease, usually recurring periodically.

reprehensible

adjective

1.deserving of reproof, rebuke, or censure; blameworthy.

Related forms

reprehensibility, reprehensibleness, noun

reprehensibly, adverb

nonreprehensibility, noun

nonreprehensible, adjective

nonreprehensibleness, noun

feint

noun

1.a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack:military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.

2.a feigned or assumed appearance:

His air of approval was a feint to conceal his real motives.

verb (used without object)

3.to make a feint.

verb (used with object)

4.to make a feint at; deceive with a feint.

5.to make a false show of; simulate.

pugnacious

adjective

1. inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.

brash

adjectivebrasher, brashest. 

1.impertinent; impudent; tactless:a brash young man.

2.hasty; rash; impetuous.

3.energetic or highly spirited, especially in an irreverent way; zesty:

a brash new musical.

4.(used especially of wood) brittle.

noun

5.a pile or stack of loose fragments or debris, as of rocks or hedge clippings.

6.brash ice.

7.Pathology. heartburn.

rampant

adjective

1.violent in action or spirit; raging; furious:a rampant leopard.

2.growing luxuriantly, as weeds.

3.in full sway; prevailing or unchecked:a rampant rumor.4.(of an animal) standing on the hind legs; ramping.

5.Heraldry. (of a beast used as a charge) represented in profile facing the dexter side, with the body upraised and resting on the left hind leg, the tail and other legs elevated, the right foreleg highest, and the head in profile unless otherwise specified:a lion rampant.

6.Architecture. (of an arch or vault) springing at one side from one level of support and resting at the other on a higher level.

rampant

adjective

1.violent in action or spirit; raging; furious:a rampant leopard.

2.growing luxuriantly, as weeds.

3.in full sway; prevailing or unchecked:a rampant rumor.4.(of an animal) standing on the hind legs; ramping.

5.Heraldry. (of a beast used as a charge) represented in profile facing the dexter side, with the body upraised and resting on the left hind leg, the tail and other legs elevated, the right foreleg highest, and the head in profile unless otherwise specified:a lion rampant.

6.Architecture. (of an arch or vault) springing at one side from one level of support and resting at the other on a higher level.

inane

adjective

1.lacking sense, significance, or ideas; silly:inane questions.

2.empty; void.

noun

3.something that is empty or void, especially the void of infinite space.

ethics

noun

1.(used with a singular or plural verb) a system of moral principles:the ethics of a culture.

2.(used with a plural verb) the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.:medical ethics; Christian ethics.

3.(used with a plural verb) moral principles, as of an individual:His ethics forbade betrayal of a confidence.

4.(used with a singular verb) that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.

alacrity

noun

1.cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness: We accepted the invitation with alacrity.2.liveliness; briskness.