100 Extreme Flashcards

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Amalgamation

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A combination

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Abstemious

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Sparing in consumption, ESP of food and drink

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Analgesic

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Capable of relieving pain

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Antropocentrism

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Theory that regards humans as the central element of he universe

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Avuncular

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Resembling an uncle in kindness or indulgence

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Bromide

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A common saying

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Byzantine

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Highly complex or intricate

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Cacophony

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Harsh jarring sound

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Calumny

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A false statement intended to harm someone’s reputation

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Canonical

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Authorized or accepted

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Chicanery

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The use of tricks to deceive someone

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Churlish

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Rude and vulgar

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Circumlocution

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Indirect way of expressing something

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Concomitant

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Existing or occurring at the same time

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Corpulent

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Excessively fat

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Cumbersome

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Clumsy awkward and heavy

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Demarcate

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To set mark or draw the boundaries of something

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Disenfranchise

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To deprive of voting rights

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Draconian

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Harsh and severe

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Egalitarian

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Characterized by the belief in equal rights for all people

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Egregious

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Outrageously bad or offensive

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Emollient

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Having a softening or soothing effect ESP to he skin

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a very a short time

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Epistolary

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Relating to letters

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Erudition
Knowledge gained by study
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Exculpate
To clear from blame
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Exegesis
Explanation or critical interpretation
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Flotsam
1. Floating wreckage | 2. Useless discarded items
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Foible
A minor flaw or weakness of character
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Formentation
A push for trouble or rebellion
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Foppish
Affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
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Gustatory
Relating to the sense of taste
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Halcyon
Joyful peaceful or prosperous hint think of Ellie Goulding k
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Histrionic
Overly dramatic
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Ignominious
Disgraceful and shameful
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Impious
Lacking respect or devotion usually for a god or religion
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Impute
To attribute or credit to
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Inchoate
In the early stages of development
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Inimical
Harmful or hostile
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Insidious
Intended to entrap deceive or harm
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Invidious
Intended to hurt offend or discriminate
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Irascible
Quickly aroused to anger
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Lexicography
The act of writing dictionaries
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Loquacious
Extremely talkative
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Lugubrious
Extremely mournful; sad and gloomy
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Malediction
A curse
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Malodorous
Having an unpleasant smell
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Mélange
A mixture
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Mendicant
Begging
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Morass
1. Swamp | 2. Difficult situation
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Moratorium
Suspension of an ongoing activity
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Munificent
Very generous
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Myopic
Lacking long term vision
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Nascent
Being born or the beginning
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Neophyte
A beginner
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Nihilism
Belief in the rejection of rules and he destruction of social and political order
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Obfuscate
To confuse or make unclear
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Obstreperous
Noisily defiant or aggressive
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Panacea
A cure for all diseases or a solution to all problems
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Parsimonious
Extremely reluctant to spend money; frugal and stingy
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Paucity
An insufficient quantity or number
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Penurious
Extremely reluctant to spend money; stingy and fugal or extremely poor
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Perfidious
Tending to betray
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Pernicious
Exceedingly harmful
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Perquisite
A payment or benefit in addition to ones regular pay
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Picayune
Small and of little importance
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Polyglot
Able to speak read or write in many languages
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Potentate
A powerful rulwrr
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Progenitor
A direct ancestor or originator
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Proletarian
Of the working class
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Proselytize
To convert someone to another belief or religion or party or cause
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Pugnacious
Tending to quarrel or fight easily
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Punctilious
Marked by precise accordance with details
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Quixotic
Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
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Raiment
Clothes
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Recalcitrant
Stubbornly resistant to authority or control
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Remuneration
Payment
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Rhapsodize
To talk with great enthusiasm
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Schism
Division of a group into opposing factions
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Sentient
Experiencing sense perception and consciousness
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Sibilant
Having a hissing sound
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Somnolent
Sleepy or drowsy
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Sonorous
Full and loud and deep as a sound
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Sophistry
A false argument meant to trick someone
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Soporific
Tending to make sleepy or drowsy
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Specious
1 plausible but false | 2 deceptively pleasing
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Stevedore
A laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port
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Stricture
Criticism
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Stultify
To make one appear foolish stupid or useless
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Supercilious
Arrogantly disdainful
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Temerity
Fearless daring
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Tinder
Easily combustible material used for starting a fire
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Treacly
Overly sweet or sentimental
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Truncated
Shortened by cutting off a part
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Turpitude
Vile, shameful behavior
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Unctuous
Unpleasantly and excessively suave
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Vainglorious
Feeling excessive self importance or pride for ones own accomplishments
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Verisimilitude
The appearance of truth; he quality of seeming to be true
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Vitiate
To make imperfect; to corrupt
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Vitriolic
Harsh or corrosive in tone