7-12 Flashcards

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

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Attest

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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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To interpret or read (something confusing or hard to make out)
Decipher
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Slight; very small compared with what might be expected
Nominal
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Happening or existing at the same time; simultaneous
Concurrent
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A temporary decline in business
Recession
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Supposed for the sake of argument or examination; imaginary; theoretical
Hypothetical
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Having many parts arranged in a complicated way; complex
Intricate
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To be good enough
Suffice
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To worsen; deteriorate
Degenerate
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A place of safety, protection, or relief
Sanctuary
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To make a request or plead on behalf of someone else
Intercede
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Open to damage or attack; susceptible
Vulnerable
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Difficult to believe; unlikely
Implausible
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Evil; wicked
Sinister
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Close inspection; careful examination
Scrutiny
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Unable to speak in an orderly, logical way
Incoherent
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An uneasy feeling about how right or proper a particular action is
Qualm
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To mix up or confuse (as a story or message); scramble
Garble
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To feel or express delight or self-satisfaction, often spitefully
Gloat
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Something that weakens, damages, or destroys
Blight
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Using someone else's writing or ideas as one' own
Plagiarism
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To plan cleverly; think up
Contrive
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To return an injury for an injury; pay back
Retaliate
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Very obvious, often offensively so
Blatant
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Perfectly clean
Immaculate
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Thin and bony
Gaunt
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Bend
Flex, flect
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Partly; half
Semi-
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Life; of living things
Bio-
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Father
Pate, patri-
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Cause to become
-ate
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In the direction of; toward
-ward
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Call; cry out
Claim,clam
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Strong
Forc,fort
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Person; having to do with people
Hum
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End
Fin
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Shockingly obvious; outrageous
Flagrant