1st Week Flashcards

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Voracious

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Desiring or consuming great quantities

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Indiscriminate

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Choosing at random without careful selection

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3
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Eminent

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Of high reputation, outstanding

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4
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Steeped

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Soaked, drenched, saturated

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5
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Replete

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Completely filled or supplied with

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Abound

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To exist only is numbers

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7
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Technology

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Branch of knowledge dealing with engineering, applied science

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8
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prognosticate

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To predict or for tell a future event

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Automaton

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A robot, a mechanical person

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10
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Matron

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An older married woman

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Paradox

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A statement that at first seems to be absurd or self-contradictory but which may in fact turn out to be true

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12
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Realm

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special field or something or someone kingdom

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13
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Annals

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Historic record

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compound

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To increase or add to

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15
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Tinge

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A trace, smattering or slight disagree

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badger

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To pester, nag, annoy

17
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Implore

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To plead urgently for aid or mercy

18
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drudgery

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Unpleasant, dull, or hard work

19
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Interminable

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Unending, seemingly

20
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Percive

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To understand, know, become aware of