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2020 Jan Flashcards

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Flaneur

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An idler or lounger

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Gelastic

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Of or causing laughter

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Madeleine

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A small, rich sponge cake

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Filch

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To pilfer

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Hygge

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A quality of Danish hospitality

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Puissant

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Powerful

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Panacea

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A solution or remedy for all difficulties or diseases

A universal cure

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Flank

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The right or left side of a body of people, such as an army, a naval force or a football team

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Triumvirate

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A group of three men holding power

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Indolent

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Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy

(Of a disease or condition) causing little or no pain

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Skeuomorph

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An object or feature which imitates the design of a similar artifact made from another material

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Enervate

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To exhaust

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Abject

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(Of something bad) -> experienced or present to the maximum degree

(Of a person or their behaviour) -> completely without pride or dignity; self-abasing

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Augur

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To portend a good or bad outcome

The end of the Cold War seemed to augur well

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Defenestration

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The act of throwing someone out of a window

The action of dismissing someone from a position of power or authority

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Denouement

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Final part of a play or film

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Maroon

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To strand

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Frigate

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A warship with a mixed armament

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Lugubrious

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Mournful

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Svengali

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A person who exercises a nefariously mesmeric influence on another

21
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Curium

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Chemical element of atomic number 96

A radioactive metal

22
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Risible

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Laughable

23
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Cinephile

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A person who enjoys the cinema

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Ketamine

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A synthetic drug used as an anaesthetic and (illicitly) as a hallucinogen

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Versimilitude

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The appearance of being true or real

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Glib

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Fluent and voluble, but insincere and shallow

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