751-800 Flashcards

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savor

A

to taste or smell

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fluster

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to make nervous or upset

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relief

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a distinction or a prominence due to contrast

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habitat

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a place where a person or thing is

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5
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platitude

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a commonplace remark delivered as if it were important

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sabotage

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to deliberately obstruct or destruct

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minutiae

A

trivial details

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effervescent

A

giving off gas bubbles

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desiccate

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to dry completely

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gregarious

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seeking and enjoying the company of others

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sojourn

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a brief visit

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listless

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having no interest in what is going on about one

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secular

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not religous

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defer

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to delay

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15
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surfeit

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an excess

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compunction

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feeling of uneasiness caused by a sense of guilt

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decapitate

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to cut off the head

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rejuvenate

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to restore energy or an appearance of youth

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19
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chronology

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arrangements of events in time

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provincial

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limited in perspective

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pliant

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easily bent

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melodramatic

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exaggeratedly emotional or compliant

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paramount

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supreme

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precocious

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developing earlier than usual

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syntax

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the way words are arranged to form phrases, clauses

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euphoria

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a feeling of great happiness

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detach

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to separate from a larger mass

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animosity

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bitter hostility

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bard

A

a poet

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revere

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to honor

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guffaw

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to laugh loudly and crudely

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inveterate

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established for a long time

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tenable

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able to be maintained in argument

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mitigate

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to improve by lessening the severity of

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giddy

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dizzy

36
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diction

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word choice is speech or writing

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negligent

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careless

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omnipotent

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all-powerful

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propagate

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to multiply or reproduce

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malinger

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to act sick in order to avoid work

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convene

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to bring together

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eschew

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to avoid

43
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arable

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suitable for growing crops (of land)

44
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optimum

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the most favorable point or condition

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err

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to make mistake

46
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scoff

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to make fun of

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saturate

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to soak or fill to capacity

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excruciating

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severely painful

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douse

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to wet thoroughly

50
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restitution

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compensation for a loss