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1990s Flashcards

1
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1) Adept

2) Adapt

3) Adopt

A

1) Having a natural ability to do something which needs skill

2) To change something to suit different conditions

2) Formally accept a suggestion on policy by vote

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1) Alleged

2) Accused

3) Suspected

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1) Thought to be the stated bad or illegal thing

2) Person is on trial for committing a crime

3) To think something to be true or probable

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1) Bear

2) Borne

3) Born

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1) To accept, tolerate

2) past participle of bear

3) brought into life by birth

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1) Raise

2) Rise

3) Raze

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1) To lift something up

2) To move upwards

3) To completely destroy a city or building

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1) Smell
2) stink
3) Scent

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1) to have a particular quality which can be detected by noses

2) unpleasant smell

3) pleasant smell

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1) Least

2) Less
3) Lest

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1) Less than anything or anyone else

2) A smaller amount

3) In order to prevent any possibility that something will happen

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1) Quiet

2) Quite

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1) Making very little noise

2) A little or a lot but not completely

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1) Their

2) There

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1) Of or belonging to them

2) That place

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1) Access

2) excess

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1) A way of entering or reaching a place

2) An amount which is more than acceptable

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1) Ascent

2) Accent

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1) an act of climbing upwards

2) The particular way of pronouncing words native to a country

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1) Resources

2) Recourse

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1) A useful or value-able possession or quality of a country, organisation or person

2) Using something or someone as a way of getting help in difficult circumstances

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12
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1) Weather

2) Whether

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1) The conditions in the air above earth

2) If, no not

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1) Premier

2) Premiere

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1) Best or most important

2) The first public performance of a play

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1) Ingenious

2) Ingenuous

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1) Very intelligent

2) Sincere, honest, trusting

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1) Facilitate
2) Felicitate

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1) to things easier

2) congratulate

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1) conscious

2) conscientious

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1) to notice a particular thing or person exists

2) Putting a lot of effort into your work

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1) Disease

2) Decease

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1) Illness if people, animals, plants

2) A person’s death

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18
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1) ascent

2) assent

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1) climb upwards

2) approval of request or idea

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1) ballot

2) ballet

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1) A system of secret voting

2) A type of dancing where carefully organised movements tell a story or idea

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20
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1) Corps

2) Corpse

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1) A military unit trained to perform particular duties

2) A dead body

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1) Due

2) Dew

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1) Expected to happen

2) Drops of water that form on the ground at night

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22
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1) Diary

2) Dairy

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1) Daily record of events

2) A commercial establishment for processing and selling milk

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1) Momentary

2) Momentous

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1) Lasting for a very short time

2) Very important because of impact on future events

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24
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1) route

2) Rout

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1) a particular way or direction between places

2) To defeat an enemy completely and force them to run away

25
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1) Veil

2) Vale

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1) A piece of cloth worn by women to cover face and head

2) Used in the name of some valleys ( the vale of Evesham)

26
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1) Queue

2) Cue

A

1) A line of people, cars, etc waiting for something

2) an action that is a signal for something

27
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1) Differ

2) Defer

A

1) To be not like something or someone else either physically or in another way

2) To delay, postpone

28
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1) Conscious

2) Conscience

A

1) Aware of something, noticing something

2) The part of your brain which tells you whether your actions are right or wrong

29
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1) Confident

2) Confidant

A

1) Having confidence

2) a person you trust with your secrets

30
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1) Atheist

2) Agnostic

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1) A person who believes that God doesn’t exist

2) Someone who does not know or believes that it is impossible to know whether a god exists

31
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1) Loose

2) Lose

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1) Not firmly held

2) To be unable to find something or someone

32
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1) Briefing

2) Debriefing

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1) information that is given to someone just before they do something or a meeting where this happens

2) To question someone in detail about the work they have done for you

33
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1) Dual

2) Duel

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1) With two parts

2) A competition between two people

34
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1) Compliment

2) Complement

A

1) A remark that expresses approval, admiration or respect

2) To make something else seem better when paired with another thing

35
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1) All

2) Awl

A

1) everyone

2) a small pointed tool for making holes in wood, leather, etc

36
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1) Boy

2) Buoy

A

1) A male child

2) A floating object on top of the sea to direct ships and warn them of danger

37
Q

1) Fallow

2) Fellow

A

1) Land not planted with crops to improve its quality of soil

2) Someone who has the same job or interests

38
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1) Jewry

2) Jury

A

1) All the Jews

2) a group of people chosen by a court to listen to a facts in trial and decide guilty or not guilty

39
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1) Functional

2) Dysfunctional

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1) Designed to be practical and useful

2) Not working in satisfactory

40
Q

1) Yew

2) Due

A

1) An evergreen tree with flat leaves like needles and small red cones

2) Expected to be in a particular place at a particular time

41
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1) Allusive

2) Elusive

A

1) Containing a lot of allusions

2) Difficult to describe, find, achieve

42
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1) Ladylike

2) Ladyship

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1) behaving in a way which is socially acceptable for a woman

2) A respectable way of referring to or talking to a woman of high rank or knight without her title

43
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1) altogether
2) all together

A

1) entirely, completely

2) Collection of members undergoing a task

44
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1) Ambiguous

2) Ambivalent

A

1) Open to more than one interpretation

2) Showing good and bad feelings at the same time about the same thing

45
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1) Apprise

2) Appraise

A

1) To give notice to, inform

2) To evaluate

46
Q

1) Bas

2) Badly

A

1) Unpleasant

2) In a bad manner

47
Q

1) Contrast

2) Compare

A

1) to show differences when compared

2) To examine and note similarities and differences

48
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1) Deduce

2) Imply

A

1) To form an opinion about something based on information or evidence that is available

2) To involve by logical necessity, entail

49
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1) Differ from

2) Differ with

A

1) To be unlike
(Ambition differs from greed)

2) Disagree in opinion
(Critics differed with the author over facts)

50
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1) farther
2) Further

A

1) At or to a greater distance

2) Addition, more

51
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1) occlude

2) occult

A

1) To cause to become closed

2) Connected with magic powers and things that cannot be explained by reason or science

52
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1) Practical

2) Practicable

A

1) Manifested in or involving practice

2) Capable of being effected or done

53
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1) Raze

2) Raise

A

1) destroy completely

2) To move to a higher position, elevate

54
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1) Canon

2) Cannon

A

1) generally accepted rules by which judgment will be done

2) an automatic gun

55
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1) Avenge

2) revenge

A

1) Punish someone for something bad they did

2) Punish someone for something bad they did to you

56
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1) Caret
2) carat

A

1) Mark placed below the line or in margin to show place of omission (^)

2) Measurement that shows purity of gold

57
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1) Revel

2) Reveal

A

1) To spend time enjoying yourself In enthusiastic ways

2) To make something known to someone

58
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1) Aviary

2) Apiary

A

1) A large enclosure for holding birds in confinement

2) Place where bees and beehives are kept

59
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1) Demesne

2) Demean

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1) Possession of real estate as one’s own

2) To belittle

Eng CSS - Pairs of words (5 decks)

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