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Pre-ap Units 7-12 > 7-12 > Flashcards

7-12 Flashcards

1
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To take the risk of; dare

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Venture

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2
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Including all or much

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Comprehensive

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3
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To restore to a normal life through therapy or education

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Rehabilitate

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4
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To continue with an effort or plan despite difficulties

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Persevere

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5
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Complete confusion; uproar

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Turmoil

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6
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An event bringing great loss and misery

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Calamity

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7
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To vary irregularly; to go up and down or back and forth

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Fluctuate

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8
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To consider carefully; think deeply about

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Ponder

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9
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Customary; ordinary

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Conventional

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10
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A mystery or puzzle

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Enigma

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11
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To send to a specific place or on specific business

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Dispatch

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12
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Of, about, or happening in the night; active at night

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Nocturnal

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13
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To make a statement about something on the basis of personal experience;bear witness; testify

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Attest

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14
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To determine one’s location or direction; to locate in relation to a direction

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Orient

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15
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To recognize; detect

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Discern

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16
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To improve

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Enhance

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17
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Moving or able to move from place to place

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Mobile

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18
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A quality or feature of a person or thing

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Attribute

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19
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To be an example of; represent; be typical

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Exemplify

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20
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To make up; be the parts of

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Constitute

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21
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To fail to do something required

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Default

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22
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Most common or most noticeable

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Predominant

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23
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Something required beforehand

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Prerequisite

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24
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To seize with authority;legally take possession of

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Confiscate

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25
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To interpret or read (something confusing or hard to make out)

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Decipher

26
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Slight; very small compared with what might be expected

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Nominal

27
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Happening or existing at the same time; simultaneous

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Concurrent

28
Q

A temporary decline in business

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Recession

29
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Supposed for the sake of argument or examination; imaginary; theoretical

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Hypothetical

30
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Having many parts arranged in a complicated way; complex

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Intricate

31
Q

To be good enough

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Suffice

32
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To worsen; deteriorate

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Degenerate

33
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A place of safety, protection, or relief

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Sanctuary

34
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To make a request or plead on behalf of someone else

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Intercede

35
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Open to damage or attack; susceptible

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Vulnerable

36
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Difficult to believe; unlikely

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Implausible

37
Q

Evil; wicked

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Sinister

38
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Close inspection; careful examination

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Scrutiny

39
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Unable to speak in an orderly, logical way

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Incoherent

40
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An uneasy feeling about how right or proper a particular action is

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Qualm

41
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To mix up or confuse (as a story or message); scramble

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Garble

42
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To feel or express delight or self-satisfaction, often spitefully

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Gloat

43
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Something that weakens, damages, or destroys

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Blight

44
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Using someone else’s writing or ideas as one’ own

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Plagiarism

45
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To plan cleverly; think up

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Contrive

46
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To return an injury for an injury; pay back

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Retaliate

47
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Very obvious, often offensively so

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Blatant

48
Q

Perfectly clean

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Immaculate

49
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Thin and bony

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Gaunt

50
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Bend

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Flex, flect

51
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Partly; half

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Semi-

52
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Life; of living things

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Bio-

53
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Father

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Pate, patri-

54
Q

Cause to become

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-ate

55
Q

In the direction of; toward

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-ward

56
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Call; cry out

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Claim,clam

57
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Strong

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Forc,fort

58
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Person; having to do with people

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Hum

59
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End

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Fin

60
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Shockingly obvious; outrageous

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Flagrant

Pre-ap Units 7-12 (1 decks)

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