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2021 Mar Flashcards

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1
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Charivari

A

A noisy mock serenade

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Labil

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Delicate

Unstable

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Perspicacity

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Perceptiveness

Shrewdness

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Detritus

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Waste

Debris

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5
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Comport

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To conduct oneself

Behave

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Peripeteia

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A sudden reversal of fortune

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Nonage

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The period of a person’s immaturity or youth

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Kvell

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To feel happy and proud

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Moppet

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A small, endearingly sweet child

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Myasthenia

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A condition causing abnormal weakness in certain muscles

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Gallinaceous

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Relating to poultry and game birds

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Estaminet

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A small cafe in France that sells alcoholic beverages

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Recant

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To renounce

To change one’s mind

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Sprezzatura

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Studied carelessness, especially as a characteristic quality or style of art or literature

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Eupeptic

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Relating to or having a good digestive system

Being in good spirits

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Desiccate

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To remove water from something

To make completely dry

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17
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Subterfuge

A

Trickery

Trick

18
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Chalk up

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To attribute

19
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Epergne

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An ornamental centrepiece for a dining table

Usually consisting of fruits or flowers

20
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Nisus

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A perfective urge or endeavour

21
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Victual

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Food or provisions

22
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Dido

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The queen and founder of Carthage

In the Aeneid

23
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Badinage

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Humourous or witty conversation

Banter

24
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Sycophant

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A person who behaves obsequiously in front of someone important in order to gain advantages

25
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Adumbrate

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To report or represent in outline

To foreshadow

26
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Orchidaceous

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Relating to or denoting orchids

27
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Nictate

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To blink or wink

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Ratiocinate

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To form a judgment via process of logic

To reason

29
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Annalist

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A person who writes annals

30
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Nobby

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Of or befitting a wealthy or noble person

31
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Toxophilite

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A student or lover of archery

32
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CAGR

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Compound annual growth rate (a term for the geometric progression ratio that provides a constant rate of return over the time period)

33
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Annal

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A record of events of a particular year

34
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Epexegesis

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An addition of words for explanation

35
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Ineluctable

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Inescapable

Inevitable

36
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Gyne

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The primary reproductive caste system of female insects

37
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Horology

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The study and measurement of time

38
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Sublimate

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To channel (psychics)

39
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SFTP

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SSH File Transfer Protocol (a network protocol designed to secure file transfers)

40
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SSH

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Secure SHell

41
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Cynosure

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A person or thing that is the centre of attention

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