Vocabulary for the High School Students

27 flashcards · English · by Mohammad Javad Taheri

1. sober

   not drunk/intoxicated earnest; serious; free from excitement or exaggeration

2. suffice

   be enough, adequate or sufficient; serve; do

3. fragile

   easily breakable; frail

4. confirm

   verify; substantiate

5. digress

   turn aside; get off the main subject

6. concur (with)

   not differ; agree; coincide

7. mitigate

   make less severe; lessen; alleviate; soften; relieve

8. earnest

   serious

9. frail

   fragile

10. substantiate

    prove; justify

11. turn aside

    digress; deviate

12. alleviate

    make less severe

13. galore

    plentiful; aplenty

14. shrink

    draw back; recoil; wince become smaller

15. recoil

    draw back; jump back

16. wince

    make a slight involuntary grimace or shrinking movement of the body out of pain or distress

17. grimace

    an ugly, twisted expression on a person's face, typically expressing disgust, pain, or wry amusement

18. neophyte

    novice

19. tyro

    novice; beginner

20. counterfeit

    not genuine; copy

21. intricate

    very complicated or detailed

22. archetype

    a very typical example of a certain person or thing

23. original (adj.)

    belonging to the beginning; first

24. inter

    put into the earth; bury

25. resume

    begin again retake; reoccupy

26. fretful

    distressed

27. hostile

    unfriendly; of/relating to an enemy