词汇 Flashcards
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Erudite
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Scholarly/Academic/Intelligent
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Epistles
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Fragments of Writing
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Ubiquitous
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Everywhere
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Epoch
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Era
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Quintessential
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Typical
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Perversities
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A deliberate desire to behave in an unreasonable way
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Foregrounded
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To make something the most prominent or important feature
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Elicit
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To draw out/provoke
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Assuage
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Lessen/Soften/Soothe
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Ellipsis
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“…” suggests omission
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Patent
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Obvious
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Benign
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Good
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Vacillation
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Goes back and Forth
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Crystallise
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Comes into focus
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Occult
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Supernatural
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Prodigious
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Remarkable
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Countenance
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Facial Features
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Pallor
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Unhealthily pale
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Spectral
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Ghostly or supernatural
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Tricolon
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The rule of three
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Oppulence
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Luxury
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Self-reflexive/Metafiction
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When an artist – when an author indirectly comments on their own craft.
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“Magnum Opus”
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The finest work in one’s oeuvre.
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Oeuvre
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Body of work
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Laud
Celebrate/Praise
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Conduit
Vehicle
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Penchant
Desire or want
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Propensity
A tendency
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Banal
Boring / Ordinary Things
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Mirth
Happiness
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Saturnine
Gloomy
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Nefarious
Sinister
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Veneer
Facade
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Fortified
Strengthen (someone) mentally or physically
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Parse
Easily solved
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Diffuse/Verbose
Wordy
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Prosaic
Everyday / Plain
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Enigmatic
Mysterious
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Inter alia
Among other things
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Presage
Be a sign or warning of something
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Malevolent
Having or showing a wish to do evil to others
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Juxtaposes
Compare/Contrast 2 things side by side
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Posterity
For future generations
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Entreaty
Plea
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Macabre
Grim
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Fallible
Capable of making mistakes or being wrong
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Supposition
A belief held without proof or certain knowledge
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Eponym
A name or noun formed after a person
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Divorced
Separate or dissociate (something) from something else
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Obdurate
Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action
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Coquettish
Flirtatious/Sexually active
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Proliferation
Rapid increase in the number or amount of something
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Voluptuous
Curvaceous and sexually attractive
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Lurid
Harshly Bright
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Languorous
Pleasurable inactive state
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Incensed
Enraged
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Proprietorial
Possessive
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Ribald/Bawdy
Sexually inclined jokes
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Acumen
The ability to make good judgements and take quick decisions
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Suposition
An assumption
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Gratuitous
Done without good reason
