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136-145 Flashcards

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Chimerical

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Given to fantastic (imaginative; remote from reality) schemes; existing only in the marination; impossible; vainly conceived

HINT: Word is often associated with once promising medical advances that were never fully realized (given actual or physical form to) and were thus chimerical.

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Ostracize

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To deliberately exclude from a group; to banish

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Impecunious

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Poor; penniless; not affluent

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Nefarious

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Famous for being wicked; villainous; vile

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Jovial

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Good humored; cheerful; jocular

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Dirge

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A funeral hymn; a slow, mournful, lugubrious musical composition

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Maudlin

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Tearful; excessively sentimental, but not mawkish

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Quixotic

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Foolishly impractical in the pursuit of ideas; impractical idealism

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Pandemonium

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A wild uproar; tumult

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Martinet

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A strict disciplinarian; a person who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules

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