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Word Of The Day- Part 2 > 6/7/14 > Flashcards

6/7/14 Flashcards

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Legerdemain

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Slight of hand; display of skill with hands

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Puissant

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Powerful, potent, mighty

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Firmament

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The sky; heavens

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Salad days

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A time of youthful inexperience or indiscretion

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Milksop

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An effeminate or weak minded boy or unmanly man

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Caveat

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A warning or caution

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Hardscrabble

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Using a bear or meager living with great labor or difficulty marked by poverty

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Daughty

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Marked by fear this resolution, valiant, brave

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Je June

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Lacking in nutritive value

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Promethean

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Of relating to Prometheus or boldly original

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Paladin

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A knight erant; a distinguished champion of a medieval king or prince

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Abattoir

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A slaughterhouse

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Synergy

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The interaction of elements that when combine produce a total effect greater than the some of the individual elements

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Parsimony

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The quality of being careful with money or resources

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Occam’s razor

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The philosophical and scientific rules that entitles should not be multiplied unnecessarily so in other words that simplicity wins over complication

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Carpetbagger

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A person from northern US went to the South after the Civil War to make money

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Diaspora

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A group of people who live outside the area in which they had lived for longtime friend which the ancestors lived

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Waylay

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To lie in wait for and attack from ambush

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Bête noire

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Something or someone particularly detested or avoided

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Nouveau riche

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A person who has recently become rich and likes to flaunt his or her money

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Litigious

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Inclined to dispute or disagree argumentative

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Dandy

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A man who is excessively concerned about his clothes and appearance

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Milquetoast

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Timid meek person

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Sisyphean

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Endless and unavailing as in labor or a task

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