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Cards In This Set
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Intuitive
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Immediate cognition; the act of knowing or sensing w/o rational processthe counselor was very intuitive in analyzing....
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Counter-intuitive
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Defying intuition
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Profligate
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Recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant ...what was to be an out of control and profligate experience
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Demur
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To voice opposition The president demurred to republican demands that...
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Albatross
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Constant and worrisome burden leaders were becoming albatross for the president's ability
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Innocuous
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Harmless; no adverse effect remarks towards Obama were innocuous and irrelevant
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Exacerbated
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To increase the severityChristmas-day attack further exacerbated the presidents falling approval rating
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Petulant
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Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish most agree her petulance should have given the guy a large clue of what was to come before he married her.
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Systemic
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Relating to or affecting an entire system or organization we had a systemic failure of our airline security durning....
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Collegial
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Characterized by having power and authority vested equally colleagues
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Inexplicable
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Difficult or impossible to explain
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Capricious
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Impulsive; unpredictable Her capricious nature made many question her leadership skills
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Acrimony
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Bitter,sharp, hostility, especially in speech.
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Angst
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A feeling of anxiety or apprehension feeling an angst of such intense sorrow
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Anomaly
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Someone or something that deviates from the normal or common form, order, or rule; a peculiarity or abnormality
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